Deep Earthquakes

Informationen zum Autor Cliff Frohlich is a research scientist and Associate Director of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. Zusammenfassung Deep Earthquakes presents a comprehensive! topical! historical! and geographical summary of deep earthquakes and related phenomena. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of earthquake seismology and deep Earth structure. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Preface; Part I. Background and Introductory Material: 1. The big, the bad, and the curious; 2. What, where, how, and why?; 3. The history of deep earthquakes; Part II. Properties of Deep and Intermediate Earthquakes: 4. The distributions of depth and sizes; 5. Spatial and temporal clustering; Part III. The Mechanism of Deep Earthquakes: 6. The deep earthquakes source; 7. The mechanics of deep earthquakes; Part IV. Why Bother About Deep Earthquakes?: 8. Are deep earthquakes useful?; 9. Answered and unanswered questions; Part V. Geographic Summary: 10. A geographic summary of deep earthquakes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Cliff Frohlich, Cliff (University of Texas Frohlich, Frohlich Cliff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2006
• EAN: 9780521828697
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82869-7
• No. of pages: 590
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Geophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics, Volcanology & seismology, Volcanology and seismology