This is a digital reprint of the revised 1976 edition of this classic work. It examines seismology, gravity, the strength of the shell, the variation of latitude and the figure of the Moon. The chapter on tidal friction is largely rewritten and what now seem to be the three most reliable estimates of the true secular acceleration of the Moon agree in suggesting that the provisional estimate in the last edition should be considerably increased. The criticism of theories of continental drift, convection and plate tectonics is much expanded. A new appendix pinpoints directions for future geophysical research. The Earth continues to provide a fundamental and comprehensive account of geophysical problems, essential to all scientists concerned with problems of the origin, history and physical constitution of the Earth.
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This is a digital reprint of the revised 1976 edition of this classic work. It examines seismology, gravity, the strength of the shell, the variation of latitude and the figure of the Moon.
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elastic afterworking, receding branch, bodily tide, ellipticity term, ellipticity correction, deep foci, granitic layer, free nutation, pressure degeneracy, hydrostatic theory, most rapid cooling, isostatic reductions, heat outflow, normal earthquakes, radioactive layer, near earthquakes, floating crust, statical theory, greatest principal stress, upward concentration, longitude terms, equilibrium tide, surface inequalities, tidal friction, secular accelerations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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elastic afterworking, receding branch, bodily tide, ellipticity term, ellipticity correction, deep foci, granitic layer, free nutation, pressure degeneracy, hydrostatic theory, most rapid cooling, isostatic reductions, heat outflow, normal earthquakes, radioactive layer, near earthquakes, floating crust, statical theory, greatest principal stress, upward concentration, longitude terms, equilibrium tide, surface inequalities, tidal friction, secular accelerations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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