Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series: Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics

Editor: Gupta, Harsh K.
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

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ISBN: 978-90-481-8701-0
Category: Science - Geology
Image Count: 833
Book Status: Available
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This encyclopedia brings together more than 200 articles covering established and new concepts of Geophysics across the various sub-disciplines such as Gravity, Geodesy, Geomagnetism, Seismology, Seismics, Deep Earth Processes, Plate Tectonics, Thermal Domains, Computational Methods, etc. in a systematic and consistent format and standard.

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Table of Contents

  • About the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A
  • Absolute Age Determinations: Radiometric - Richard W. Carlson
  • Archaeomagnetism - Donald H. Tarling
  • Archaeoseismology - Klaus-Günter Hinzen
  • Artificial Water Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes - Harsh K. Gupta
  • B
  • Biogeophysics - Lee Slater; Estella Atekwana
  • Body Waves - Mahmoud Mohamed Selim Saleh
  • C
  • Characteristic Earthquakes and Seismic Gaps - David D. Jackson; Yan Y. Kagan
  • Continental Drift - Alan G. Smith
  • Continental Rifts - A. M. Celâl Şengör
  • Core Dynamo - Ulrich R. Christensen
  • Core-Mantle Coupling - Paul H. Roberts; Jonathan M. Aurnou
  • Crustal Reflectivity (Oceanic) and Magma Chamber - Satish C. Singh
  • Curie Temperature - Vincenzo Pasquale
  • D
  • Deep Scientific Drilling - Ulrich Harms; Harold J. Tobin
  • Deep Seismic Reflection and Refraction Profiling - Kabir Roy Chowdhury
  • Differential Rotation of the Earth’s Inner Core - Xiaodong Song
  • E
  • Earth Rotation - Harald Schuh; Sigrid Böhm
  • Earth Tides - John M. Wahr
  • Earth, Density Distribution - Frank D. Stacey; Paul M. Davis
  • Earth’s Structure, Core - Lianxing Wen
  • Earth’s Structure, Continental Crust - Rolf Meissner; Hartmut Kern
  • Earth’s Structure, Global - Jean-Paul Montagner
  • Earth’s Structure, Lower Mantle - Edward J. Garnero; Allen K. McNamara; James A. Tyburczy
  • Earth’s Structure, Upper Mantle - Guust Nolet
  • Earthquake Lights - John S. Derr; France St-Laurent; Friedemann T. Freund; Robert Thériault
  • Earthquake Precursors and Prediction - Seiya Uyeda; Toshiyasu Nagao; Masashi Kamogawa
  • Earthquake Prediction, M8 Algorithm - Alik Ismail-Zadeh; Vladimir Kossobokov
  • Earthquake Rupture: Inverse Problem - Shamita Das
  • Earthquake Sounds - Andrew J. Michael
  • Earthquake, Aftershocks - Mian Liu; Seth Stein
  • Earthquake, Focal Mechanism - Emile A. Okal
  • Earthquake, Foreshocks - Mian Liu
  • Earthquake, Location Techniques - Clifford H. Thurber
  • Earthquake, Magnitude - Peter Bormann
  • Earthquakes and Crustal Deformation - Robert McCaffrey
  • Earthquakes, Early and Strong Motion Warning - Richard M. Allen
  • Earthquakes, Energy - Domenico Di Giacomo; Peter Bormann
  • Earthquakes, Intensity - Gottfried Grünthal
  • Earthquakes, PAGER - David J. Wald
  • Earthquakes, Shake Map - David J. Wald
  • Earthquakes, Source Theory - Raul Madariaga
  • Earthquakes, Strong-Ground Motion - Giuliano F. Panza; Cristina La Mura; Fabio Romanelli; Franco Vaccari
  • Earthquakes, Volcanogenic - J. W. Neuberg
  • Electrical Properties of Rocks - Takashi Yoshino
  • Electrical Resistivity Surveys and Data Interpretation - Meng Heng Loke
  • Electronic Geophysical Year - William K. Peterson; Daniel N. Baker; C. E. Barton; Peter Fox; M. A. Parsons; Emily A. CoBabe-Ammann
  • Energy Budget of the Earth - Jean-Claude Mareschal; Claude Jaupart
  • Energy Partitioning of Seismic Waves - Kalachand Sain
  • Equatorial Electrojet - Archana Bhattacharyya
  • F
  • Fractals and Chaos - Vijay P. Dimri; Ravi P. Srivastava; Nimisha Vedanti
  • Free Oscillations of the Earth - Sarva Jit Singh; Sunita Rani
  • G
  • Geodesy, Figure of the Earth - Kusumita Arora
  • Geodesy, Ground Positioning and Leveling - Stelios P. Mertikas
  • Geodesy, Networks and Reference Systems - Hayo Hase
  • Geodesy, Physical - V. Chakravarthi
  • Geodetic Pendulums, Horizontal Ultra Broad Band - Carla Braitenberg
  • Geodynamics - Alessandro M. Forte
  • Geoelectromagnetism - Antal Ádám; László Szarka
  • Geoid - Paramesh Banerjee
  • Geoid Determination, Theory and Principles - Michael G. Sideris
  • Geoid Undulation, Interpretation - Petr Vaníček
  • Geoid, Computational Method - Michael G. Sideris
  • Geomagnetic Excursions - Martha Schwartz
  • Geomagnetic Field, Global Pattern - Susan Macmillan
  • Geomagnetic Field, IGRF - Aude Chambodut
  • Geomagnetic Field, Measurement Techniques - Mioara Mandea; Anca Isac
  • Geomagnetic Field, Polarity Reversals - Carlo Laj
  • Geomagnetic Field, Secular Variation - Monika Korte
  • Geomagnetic Field, Theory - Friedrich H. Busse
  • Geophysical Well Logging - Miroslav Kobr
  • Geothermal Heat Pumps - Ladislaus Rybach
  • Geothermal Record of Climate Change - Michael G. Davis; David S. Chapman; Robert N. Harris
  • GPS, Data Acquisition and Analysis - Carine Bruyninx; Wim Aerts; Juliette Legrand
  • GPS, Tectonic Geodesy - Jeffrey T. Freymueller
  • Gravimeters - Andrew Hugill
  • Gravity Anomalies, Interpretation - Mikhail K. Kaban
  • Gravity Data, Advanced Processing - Christopher J. Swain; Jonathan F. Kirby
  • Gravity Data, Regional – Residual Separation - Kumarendra Mallick; Anthwar Vasanthi; Krishna Kant Sharma
  • Gravity Field of the Earth - Christopher Jekeli
  • Gravity Field, Temporal Variations from Space Techniques - Anny Cazenave; G. Ramillien; Richard Biancale
  • Gravity Field, Time Variations from Surface Measurements - Virendra M. Tiwari; Jacques Hinderer
  • Gravity Measurements, Absolute - Mark A. Zumberge
  • Gravity Method, Airborne - Uwe Meyer
  • Gravity Method, Principles - Hans-Jürgen Götze
  • Gravity Method, Satellite - Georges Balmino
  • Gravity Method, Surface - Dinesh Chandra Mishra; Virendra M. Tiwari
  • Gravity Modeling, Theory and Computation - Jean-Pierre Barriot; Lydie Sichoix
  • Gravity, Data to Anomalies - Ron Hackney
  • Gravity, Global Models - Nikolaos K. Pavlis
  • Gravity, Gradiometry - Christopher Jekeli
  • Great Earthquakes - Roger M. W. Musson
  • H
  • Heat Flow Measurements, Continental - John H. Sass; Graeme Beardsmore
  • Heat Flow, Continental - Paul Morgan
  • Heat Flow, Seafloor: Methods and Observations - Earl E. Davis; Andrew T. Fisher
  • I
  • Impact Craters on Earth - Richard A. F. Grieve; Gordon R. Osinski
  • Instrumentation, Electrical Resistivity - Meng H. Loke; Jonathan E. Chambers; Oliver Kuras
  • Instrumentation, EM - Steven Constable
  • International Geophysical Year - Ralph W. Baird
  • International Gravity Formula - Hans-Jürgen Götze
  • International Polar Year 2007–2008 - David J. Carlson
  • International Year of Planet Earth - Eduardo F. J. de Mulder; Wolfgang Eder
  • Inverse Theory, Artificial Neural Networks - William A. Sandham; David J. Hamilton
  • Inverse Theory, Global Optimization - Mrinal K. Sen; Paul L. Stoffa
  • Inverse Theory, Linear - Pravin K. Gupta
  • Inverse Theory, Monte Carlo Method - Malcolm Sambridge; Kerry Gallagher
  • Inverse Theory, Singular Value Decomposition - Ajay Manglik
  • Isostasy - Anthony B. Watts
  • Isostasy, Thermal - David S. Chapman; Derrick Hasterok
  • L
  • Legal Continental Shelf - Ray Wood; Stuart A. Henrys; Vaughan Stagpoole; Bryan Davy; Ian Wright
  • Lithosphere, Continental - David E. James
  • Lithosphere, Continental: Thermal Structure - Claude Jaupart; Jean-Claude Mareschal
  • Lithosphere, Mechanical Properties - Evgueni Burov
  • Lithosphere, Oceanic - James McClain
  • Lithosphere, Oceanic: Thermal Structure - Earl E. Davis; David S. Chapman
  • M
  • Magnetic Anisotropy - Leonardo Sagnotti
  • Magnetic Anomalies, Interpretation - Erwan Thébault
  • Magnetic Data Enhancements and Depth Estimation - Clive Foss
  • Magnetic Domains - Susan L. Halgedahl
  • Magnetic Gradiometry - Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg
  • Magnetic Methods, Airborne - Mike Dentith
  • Magnetic Methods, Principles - Kusumita Arora
  • Magnetic Methods, Satellite - Dhananjay Ravat
  • Magnetic Methods, Surface - Nandini Nagarajan
  • Magnetic Modeling, Theory and Computation - Mioara Mandea; Carmen Gaina; Vincent Lesur
  • Magnetic Storms and Electromagnetic Pulsations - Gurbax S. Lakhina; Bruce T. Tsurutani
  • Magnetic, Global Anomaly Map - Kumar Hemant Singh
  • Magnetometers - Ivan Hrvoic
  • Magnetotelluric Data Processing - Gary Egbert
  • Magnetotelluric Interpretation - John F. Hermance
  • Magnetovariation Studies - Nandini Nagarajan
  • Mantle Convection - David Bercovici
  • Mantle D′′ Layer - Thorne Lay
  • Mantle Plumes - Cinzia G. Farnetani; Albrecht W. Hofmann
  • Mantle Viscosity - W. R. Peltier
  • N
  • Numerical Methods, Boundary Element - Michele Cooke
  • Numerical Methods, Domain Decomposition - Alfio Quarteroni; Luca Formaggia
  • Numerical Methods, Finite Difference - Johan O. A. Robertsson; Joakim O. Blanch
  • Numerical Methods, Finite Element - J. N. Reddy
  • Numerical Methods, Multigrid - Wim A. Mulder
  • O
  • Ocean Bottom Seismics - Ingo A. Pecher; Jörg Bialas; Ernst R. Flueh
  • Ocean, Spreading Centre - K. S. Krishna
  • Oceanic Intraplate Deformation: The Central Indian Ocean Basin - D. Gopala Rao; D. A. Bhaskara Rao
  • P
  • Paleomagnetic Field Intensity - Andrew Biggin; Neil Suttie; John Shaw
  • Paleomagnetism, Magnetostratigraphy - Donald R. Prothero
  • Paleomagnetism, Measurement Techniques and Instrumentation - Tallavajhala Radhakrishna; J. D. A. Piper
  • Paleomagnetism, Polar Wander - Jean Besse; Vincent Courtillot; Marianne Greff
  • Paleomagnetism, Principles - William Lowrie
  • Paleoseismology - Shinji Toda
  • Plate Driving Forces - Alessandro M. Forte
  • Plate Motions in Time: Inferences on Driving and Resisting Forces - Giampiero Iaffaldano; Hans-Peter Bunge
  • Plate Tectonics, Precambrian - Y. J. Bhaskar Rao; E. V. S. S. K. Babu
  • Plates and Paleoreconstructions - Alan G. Smith
  • Poroelasticity - Ran Bachrach
  • Propagation of Elastic Waves: Fundamentals - Francisco J. Sánchez-Sesma; Ursula Iturrarán-Viveros
  • R
  • Radioactivity in Earth’s Core - V. Rama Murthy
  • Radiogenic Heat Production of Rocks - Christoph Clauser
  • Remanent Magnetism - Laurie Brown; Suzanne McEnroe
  • Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques for Tectonic Studies - Semere Solomon; Woldai Ghebreab
  • Remote Sensing, Applications to Geophysics - Hojjatollah Ranjbar
  • S
  • SAR Interferometry - Masato Furuya
  • Satellite Laser Ranging - David Coulot; Florent Deleflie; Pascal Bonnefond; Pierre Exertier; Olivier Laurain; Bertrand de Saint-Jean
  • Seafloor Spreading - Richard N. Hey
  • Sedimentary Basins - Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
  • Seismic Anisotropy - Thorsten W. Becker
  • Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing - Kabir Roy Chowdhury
  • Seismic Diffraction - Enru Liu
  • Seismic Discontinuities in the Transition Zone - Lev P. Vinnik
  • Seismic Hazard - Andrzej Kijko
  • Seismic Imaging, Overview - Gerard T. Schuster
  • Seismic Instrumentation - Duncan Carr Agnew
  • Seismic Microzonation - Fumio Yamazaki; Yoshihisa Maruyama
  • Seismic Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions - Paul G. Richards; Wu Zhongliang
  • Seismic Noise - Dhananjay Kumar; Imtiaz Ahmed
  • Seismic Phase Names: IASPEI Standard - Dmitry A. Storchak; Johannes Schweitzer; Peter Bormann
  • Seismic Properties of Rocks - Nikolas I. Christensen
  • Seismic Quiescence and Activation - Gennady Sobolev
  • Seismic Seiches - Art McGarr
  • Seismic Signals in Well Observations: Pre, Co, Post - R. K. Chadha
  • Seismic Structure at Mid-Ocean Ridges - Donald W. Forsyth
  • Seismic Tomography - Guust Nolet
  • Seismic Velocity-Density Relationships - Kalachand Sain
  • Seismic Velocity-Temperature Relationships - Kalachand Sain
  • Seismic Wave Propagation in Real Media: Numerical Modeling Approaches - Ursula Iturrarán-Viveros; Francisco J. Sánchez-Sesma
  • Seismic Waves, Scattering - Ludovic Margerin
  • Seismic Zonation - Yanxiang Yu; Mengtan Gao; Guangyin Xu
  • Seismic, Ambient Noise Correlation - Michel Campillo; Philippe Roux; Nikolai M. Shapiro
  • Seismic, Migration - Samuel H. Gray
  • Seismic, Ray Theory - Vlastislav Červený; Ivan Pšenčík
  • Seismic, Receiver Function Technique - Rainer Kind; Xiaohui Yuan
  • Seismic, Reflectivity Method - Mrinal K. Sen
  • Seismic, Viscoelastic Attenuation - Vernon F. Cormier
  • Seismic, Waveform Modeling and Tomography - Yanghua Wang
  • Seismicity, Intraplate - Paul Bodin
  • Seismicity, Subduction Zone - Akira Hasegawa
  • Seismogram Interpretation - Ota Kulhanek; Leif Persson
  • Seismological Networks - Eric Robert Engdahl; István Bondár
  • Seismology, Global Earthquake Model - Peter Suhadolc
  • Seismology, Monitoring of CTBT - Wu Zhongliang; Paul G. Richards
  • Seismology, Rotational - William H. K. Lee
  • Shear-Wave Splitting: New Geophysics and Earthquake Stress-Forecasting - Stuart Crampin
  • Single and Multichannel Seismics - Tamás Tóth
  • Slow Earthquake - Teruyuki Kato
  • Spherical Harmonic Analysis Applied to Potential Fields - Nikolaos K. Pavlis
  • Statistical Seismology - David A. Rhoades
  • Subduction Zones - Geoffrey A. Abers
  • Surface Waves - Barbara Romanowicz
  • T
  • T Waves - Emile A. Okal
  • Thermal Storage and Transport Properties of Rocks, I: Heat Capacity and Latent Heat - Christoph Clauser
  • Thermal Storage and Transport Properties of Rocks, II: Thermal Conductivity and Diffusivity - Christoph Clauser
  • Time Reversal in Seismology - Carène Larmat; Clarence S. Clay
  • Traveltime Tomography Using Controlled-Source Seismic Data - Colin A. Zelt
  • Tsunami - Steven N. Ward
  • Tsunami: Bay of Bengal - Vineet Gahalaut
  • Tsunami Watch and Warning Centers - Shailesh R. Nayak; Srinivasa Kumar Tummala
  • V
  • Vertical Seismic Profiling - James W. Rector III; Maria-Daphne Mangriotis
  • Very Long Baseline Interferometry - Helmut Wiesemeyer; Axel Nothnagel
  • W
  • Wavelet Analysis - Mikhail Kulesh