Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 8 - Core Dynamics (Paperback)

Treaties on Geophysics: Core Dynamics, Volume 8, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of understanding of core dynamics. The book begins by analyzing a subject of long-standing and on-going controversy: the gross energetics of the core. It then explains the important elements of dynamo theory; actual fluid motions in the core; the basic physical principles involved in thermochemical convection in the core and the basic equations governing the convection; and turbulence and the small-scale dynamics of the core. This is followed by discussions of the state of knowledge on rotation-induced core flows; the use of first-principles numerical models of self-sustaining fluid dynamos; and the behavior of polarity reversals in numerical dynamo models. The remaining chapters cover the various roles the inner core plays in core dynamics and the geodynamo; experiments that have shaped knowledge about the flows in the core that produce the geodynamo and govern its evolution; and ways the mantle can affect core dynamics, and corresponding ways the core can affect the mantle.

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	October 2009
Editors:	Peter L. Olson
Dimensions:	189 x 246 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	358
ISBN-13:	978-0-444-53457-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Geophysics Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > General Books > Academic & Education > Professional & Technical > Geophysics
LSN:	0-444-53457-1
Barcode:	9780444534576

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