Anelasticity in the Earth (Geodynamics Series) - Hardcover

 
9780875905051: Anelasticity in the Earth (Geodynamics Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0875905056 ISBN 13: 9780875905051
Publisher: American Geophysical Union, 1991

Synopsis

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geodynamics Series, Volume 4.

The fact that the materials in the solid parts of the Earth depart from perfectly elastic behaviour is now central to fundamental geophysical studies. Slow deformation (creep) by the processes of mantle convection has been widely recognised for about 25 years; it has been realised for much longer that seismic waves are attenuated but more recently there has developed a general if vague awareness of a probable correlation between high attenuation and low resistance to creep and in the last few years seismic attenuation has received much greater attention because it implies a first order dispersion of body waves (frequency dependence of elasticity).

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Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0875905056
ISBN 13 
9780875905051
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
122
Editor
Stacey Frank D., Paterson M. S., Nicholas A.