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Verfasst von:	Clauser, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Introduction to Geophysics
Titelzusatz:	Global Physical Fields and Processes in the Earth
Verf.angabe:	by Christoph Clauser
Ausgabe:	1st ed. 2024.
Verlagsort:	Cham
	Cham
Verlag:	Springer International Publishing
	Imprint: Springer
E-Jahr:	2024
Jahr:	2024.
	2024.
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource(XII, 397 p. 327 illus., 162 illus. in color.)
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
ISBN:	978-3-031-17867-2
Abstract:	Fundamentals of geophysics, the Earth in the universe, its material composition, and its internal structure -- Radioactive decay and rock ages -- Earthquakes and Earth's structure -- Gravity field and figure of the Earth -- Earth's magnetic field and magnetosphere -- Earth's heat and temperature field.
	This textbook on geophysics is a translated and revised editon from its third German edition Einführung in die Geophysik - Globale physikalische Felder und Prozesse in der Erde. Explaining the technical terminology, it introduces students and the interested scientific public to the physics of the Earth at an intermediate level. In doing so, it goes far beyond a purely phenomenological description, but systematically explains the physical principles of the processes and fields which affect the entire Earth: Its position in space; its internal structure; its age and that of its rocks; earthquakes and how they are used in exploring Earth’s structure; its shape, tides, and isostatic equilibrium; Earth's magnetic field, the geodynamo that generates it, and the interaction between the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind's plasma flow; the Earth's temperature field and heat transport processes in the core, mantle, and crust of the Earth and their role in driving the geodynamo and plate tectonics. All chapters begin with a brief historical outline describing the development of each branch of geophysics up to the recent past. Selected biographies illustrate the personal and social conditions under which groundbreaking results were achieved. Detailed mathematical derivations facilitate understanding. Exercises with worked-out results allow readers to test the gained understanding. A detailed appendix contains a wealth of useful additional information such as a geological time table, general reference data, conversion factors, the latest values of the natural constants, vector and tensor calculus, and two chapters on the basic equations of hydrodynamics and hydrothermics. The book addresses bachelor and master students of geophysics and general earth science, as well as students of physics, engineering, and environmental sciences with geophysics as a minor subject. The Author Christoph Clauser accepted the professorship for Applied Geophysics at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany in 2000. There, from 2007 until his retirement in 2018, he held the Chair of Applied Geophysics and Geothermal Energy at the E.ON Energy Research Center. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences - German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is specialized in geophysical aspects of reservoir engineering, particularly related to geothermal energy, hydrocarbons, and geological carbon dioxide sequestration.
DOI:	doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17867-2
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	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17867-2
Schlagwörter:	(s)Geophysik
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Dokumenttyp:	Lehrbuch
Sprache:	eng
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