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Monitoring the earth : physical geology in action / Claudio Vita-Finzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vita-Finzi, Claudio.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physical geology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 New rulers and clocks 1
- Location 2
- Altitude 7
- Time 12
- 2 Rain from space 21
- Meteorites 23
- Craters 26
- Debris 29
- Dust 31
- Comets 33
- 3 Earth and Sun 37
- Sunspots 38
- Variability of the Sun's ultraviolet irradiance 43
- Solar activity and the surface record 45
- 4 Global changes 49
- The figure of the Earth 49
- Orbit 51
- Rotation 51
- Polar motion 53
- Precession 53
- Gravity 57
- Magnetism 60
- 5 Shifting plates 65
- Plate translation 65
- Plate interaction 70
- Plate deformation: interiors 76
- Movement, mechanism and forces 79
- 6 Ice and water bodies 83
- Glaciers 83
- Ice sheets 87
- Sea ice 91
- Sea level 92
- Loading by ice and water 95
- 7 Mountains, peaks and ridges 99
- Volcanoes 99
- Mountain ranges 104
- Submerged ridges and volcanoes 108
- 8 Faults and folds 111
- Fault systems 120
- 9 Sediments and surfaces 131
- Channels 132
- Mass movement 140
- 10 The imprint of life 149
- Organic stirring 149
- Bioerosion 151
- Construction 155
- Organic clocks 158.
- Notes:
- "First published by Terra Publishing, 2002"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195219406
- OCLC:
- 52171684
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