TY - BOOK AU - Sammonds,P.R. AU - Thompson,J.M.T. TI - Advances in earth science: from earthquakes to global warming SN - 9781860947612 (hbk.) U1 - 550 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Imperial College Press KW - Earth sciences KW - Global environmental change KW - Geodynamics N1 - ... articles originating from invited papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, [series A]."-- P. [4] of cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface. - Profiles of the editors and authors. - Introduction / Peter Sammonds. Sect 1. Environmental change. - The price of climate change / David S. Rea. - Carbon in the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere in the early anthropocene / Yadvinder Malhi. - Dust in the earth system : the biogeochemical linking of land, air, and sea / Andy Ridgwell, Karen E. Kohfeld. - The late permian mass extinction event and recovery : biological catastrophe in a greenhouse world / Richard J. Twitchett. - Sect. 2. Dynamics of the earth. - Space-plasma imaging - past, present, and future / Cathryn N. Mitchell. - Fault structure, stress, friction and rupture dynamics of earthquakes / Eiichi Fukayama. - Some remarks on the time scales of magmatic processes occurring beneath island arc volcanoes / Simon P. Turne. - The break-up of continents and the generation of ocean basins / T. A. Minshull. - Properties and evolution of the earth's core and geodynamo / F. Nimmo, D. Alfe. - Sect 3. Applied earth science. - Giant catastrophic landslides / Christopher R. J. Kilburn. - Remote monitoring of the earthquake cycle using satellite radar interferometry / Tim J. Wright. - Human influence on the global geochemical cycle of lead / Dominik J. Weiss, Malin E. Kylander, Matthew K. Reuer. - Natural and artificial platinum and palladium occurrences world-wide / Hazel M. Prichard. - Data assimilation and objectively optimised earth observation / David J. Lary, Anuradha Koratkar. - Afterword. - Index ER -