This textbook will be a standard for undergraduate courses in global geophysics and exploration geophysics. Unlike other recent texts, it is organized along the classical basic disciplines of geophysics. Only elementary calculus is assumed of the student, and the level of mathematics escalates through each chapter so that the book can be used by both geology and geophysics students. The reader will be aided by the use of worked examples and discussion of methodological and computational pitfalls, and notes on further reading lead the student into the research literature. The manuscript has been thoroughly field tested in a number of university departments.
| ISBN | 0865420769 | | Pages | 608 | | ISBN13 | 9780865420762
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 1395 | | Imprint | Blackwell Science Inc. | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 203 | | Publication date | 09 Jun 1997 | | Width (mm) | 254 | | Library of Congress | QC806.S54 | | Spine width (mm) | 40 | | DEWEY | 550 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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PrefaceSolid earth geophysics: what, why and how?Gross properties of the EarthGeochronologyGravityHeat flow and geothermicsMagnetismPaleomagnetismTravel time seismologySeismic waves and other mechanical topicsGlobal gravity and geodynamicsOrigin of the planets
Nature, September 1998
'...well written, adopts a novel approach, and concentrates on the underlying physics. The level of difficulty increases through the book, but each chapter has a clearly written introduction in which the key physical concepts are outlined...I wholeheartedly recommend Principles of Geophysics to any research geophysicist or graduate student, and as a key library text for teaching.'
Pure and Applied Geophysics, November 1998
'...this book provides an up-to-date presentation, applied to the methodology of interpretation, notions and theories.'
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