Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-27892-8 (ISBN)
Isostasy is a simple concept, yet it has long perplexed students of geology and geophysics. This fully updated edition provides the tools to better understand this concept using a simplified mathematical treatment, numerous geological examples, and an extensive bibliography. It starts by tracing the ideas behind local and regional models of isostasy before describing the theoretical background, the observational evidence. It now also includes an exploration of the role of flexure in landscape evolution and dynamic topography and discussions of lithosphere memory, inheritance, and new NASA mission topography and gravity data. The book concludes with a discussion of flexure's role in understanding the evolution of the surface features of the Earth and its neighboring planets. Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of geology and geophysics, it will also be of interest to researchers in gravity, geodesy, sedimentary basin formation, mountain building and planetary geology.
A. B. Watts is Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences, at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society; a recipient of the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London, the Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union and the Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union; and the author of 240 refereed publications.
1. The Development of the Concept of Isostasy; 2. Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere; 3. Theory of Elastic Plates; 4. Geological Examples of the Flexure Model of Isostasy; 5. Isostatic Response Functions; 6. Isostasy and the Physical Nature of the Lithosphere; 7. Isostasy and the Origin of Geological Features in the Continents and Oceans; 8. Isostasy and the Terrestrial Planets; References; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 243 mm |
| Gewicht | 1130 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-27892-4 / 1009278924 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-27892-8 / 9781009278928 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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