Keywords:
Earth sciences ; Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Authors -- Section 1: Notation and Units -- Chapter 1: Physical Units and Constants -- 1.1 SI Units (Système international d’unités) -- 1.2 Unit Conversions: SI Equivalents of Other Units -- 1.3 Fundamental Constants -- Chapter 2: Some Shorthand Conventions -- 2.1 Selected Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 2.2 The Greek alphabet -- Section 2: The Building Blocks -- Chapter 3: Elements, Isotopes and Radioactivity -- 3.1 Periodic Table of Elements: A Geochemical Classification -- 3.2 Periodic Table of Elements: A Biological Classification -- 3.3 Isotopes of the Naturally Occurring Elements -- 3.4 Naturally occurring long-lived radioactive isotopes -- 3.5 Some Extinct Isotopes -- 3.6 Short-Lived Isotopes -- 3.7 Fission Products -- 3.8 Radiogenic Heat -- Chapter 4: The Solar System -- 4.1 Physics -- 4.2 Chemistry -- Section 3: Global Geophysics -- Chapter 5: Whole Earth Properties -- 5.1 Planetary Parameters -- 5.2 Global Energy -- 5.3 Precession, Wobble and the Milankovitch Cycles -- 5.4 Gravity -- 5.4.1 Algebraic Forms of Spherical Harmonics -- 5.4.2 Harmonic Coefficients of the Earth’s Gravitational Potential -- 5.4.3 Gravity Anomalies -- 5.5 The Geomagnetic Field -- 5.5.1 The Main Field -- 5.5.2 Spherical Harmonic Representation -- 5.5.3 Geomagnetic Reference Field -- 5.5.4 Secular Variation -- 5.5.5 Geomagnetic Reversals -- 5.6 The Magnetosphere and Rapid Magnetic Variations -- Section 4: Major Subdivisions of the Earth -- Chapter 6: The Core -- 6.1 Core Details from the Preliminary Reference Earth Model -- 6.2 Core Properties -- 6.3 Core Energetics -- Chapter 7: The Mantle -- 7.1 Reference Earth Model from Seismology -- 7.2 General Mantle Properties.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (419 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781351374705
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5043478
DDC:
550
Language:
English
