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Informationen zum Autor D. E. Smylie is a Professor of Geophysics at York University, Toronto. He has conducted research on earthquake displacement fields, the rotation of the Earth, and the dynamics of the deep interior while lecturing in Geophysics at the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, the University of British Columbia and York University, Toronto. In 2002 he was awarded the John Tuzo Wilson Medal by the Canadian Geophysical Union for his achievements. Professor Smylie is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the American Geophysical Union, and has served as Founder and President of the Canadian Geophysical Union. Klappentext A rigorous overview of the solid Earth's dynamical behaviour, explaining the theory with methodology and online freeware for numerical implementation. Zusammenfassung A rigorous overview of the solid Earth's dynamical behaviour! explaining the theory and presenting methods for numerical implementation. Fully supported by freeware computing and graphics systems available online for use with the book! this is an ideal text for researchers and graduate students in geodesy! seismology and solid Earth geophysics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction and theoretical background; 2. Time sequence and spectral analysis; 3. Earth deformations; 4. Earth's rotation: observations and theory; 5. Earth's figure and gravitation; 6. Rotating fluids and the outer core; 7. The subseismic equation and boundary conditions; 8. Variational methods and core modes; 9. Static deformations and dislocation theory; Appendix A. Elementary results from vector analysis; Appendix B. Properties of Legendre functions; Appendix C. Numerical Earth models; References; Fortran index; Subject index.
