Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series: Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics
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
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Table of Contents
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.
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