The Solid Earth - An Introduction to Global Geophysics

1. Introduction 2. Tectonics on a Sphere: The Geometry of Plate Tectonics 3. Past Plate Motions 4. Seismology: Measuring the Interior 5. Gravity 6. Geochronology 7. Heat 8. The Oceanic Lithosphere: Ridges, Transforms, Trenches and Oceanic Islands 9. The Continental Lithosphere Appendix 1: Scalars, Vectors and Differential Operators Appendix 2: Theory of Elasticity and Elastic Waves Appendix 3: Geometry of Ray Paths and Inversion of Earthquake Body Wave Time-Distance Curves Appendix 4: The Least-Squares Method Appendix 5: The Error Function Appendix 6: Units and Symbols Appendix 7: Numerical Data Glossary Index