Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Mathematical Geophysics

A Survey of Recent Developments in Seismology and Geodynamics

  • Book
  • © 1988

Overview

Editors:
  1. N. J. Vlaar

    1. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. G. Nolet

    1. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. M. J. R. Wortel

    1. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  4. S. A. P. L. Cloetingh

    1. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Modern Approaches in Geophysics (MAGE, volume 3)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Seismology and Three Dimensional Structure of the Earth

  3. Convection and Lithospheric Processes

    2. Mantle convection

      1. Long wavelength features of mantle convection
        • G. T. Jarvis, W. R. Peltier
        Pages 209-226
      2. Mean-field methods in mantle convection
        • Francesca Quareni, David A. Yuen
        Pages 227-264
      3. Infinite Prandtl number spherical-shell convection
        • Philippe Machetel, David A. Yuen
        Pages 265-290
      4. Lateral heterogeneity and the geoid: the importance of the surface kinematic constraints
        • A. M. Forte, W. R. Peltier
        Pages 291-323

    4. Thermomechanical processes in the lithosphere

      1. On the mechanics of plate boundary formation
        • S. A. P. L. Cloetingh, M. J. R. Wortel
        Pages 363-387
      2. Supercontinent breakup: effect on eustatic sea level and the oceanic heat flux
        • C. L. Angevine, S. R. Linneman, P. L. Heller
        Pages 389-399

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 401-407
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The contributions to this book follow a topical trend. In several geophysical fields evidence is accumulating concerning the deviation of the earth's structure from radial symmetry. Seismology provides the most adequate resolution for revealing the earth's lateral inhomogeneity on a global to local scale. Lateral structure in the density distribution is also manifest in the earth's gravity field and in the geoid. Asphericity in physical parameters, generally supposed only to vary with the vertical coordinate, has a profound influence on geodynamics. The effects of these deviations from spherical symmetry concern in particular convection theory, post-glacial rebound and the dynamics of the lithosphere and upper mantle in general. At the 16th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics which was held in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands, in 1986, the need was felt to present the state of the art. Several prospective authors were found interested to contribute to the present book. This Oosterbeek conference was one in a long series of topical conferences starting with the Upper Mantle Project Symposia on Geophysical Theory and Computers in the 1960s, and thence their successors, the conferences on Mathematical Geophysics, until the present.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    N. J. Vlaar, G. Nolet, M. J. R. Wortel, S. A. P. L. Cloetingh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mathematical Geophysics

  • Book Subtitle: A Survey of Recent Developments in Seismology and Geodynamics

  • Editors: N. J. Vlaar, G. Nolet, M. J. R. Wortel, S. A. P. L. Cloetingh

  • Series Title: Modern Approaches in Geophysics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2857-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2620-9Published: 31 December 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7785-9Published: 03 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2857-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-6096

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 408

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation