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Multidisciplinary overview of lithospheric structure and evolution, based on a full set of geophysical methods, for researchers and advanced students.
List of contents
Foreword; Preface; 1. What is the lithosphere?; 2. Age of the lithosphere; 3. Seismic structure of the lithosphere; 4. Thermal regime of the lithosphere from heat flow data; 5. Thermal state of the lithosphere from non-thermal data; 6. CBL and lithospheric density from petrologic and geophysical data; 7. Electrical structure of the lithosphere; 8. Flexure and rheology; 9. Evolution of the lithosphere; 10. Summary of lithospheric properties; References; Index.
About the author
Irina Artemieva is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She was awarded an M.S. in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow and a Dr Science (Dr habil.) degree from the University of Copenhagen. Professor Artemieva has worked as a researcher at the Russian/USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, at the Universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Strasbourg (France), and at the United States Geological Survey in California. She was Science Co-ordinator of the European Science Foundation/International Lithosphere Program EUROPROBE study 1999–2001. She is also a member of the Natural Sciences Research Councils in Ireland and Sweden, and the Academia Europaea, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London.
Summary
Presents a coherent synthesis of lithosphere studies, based on a full set of geophysical methods and complemented by petrologic and laboratory data on rock properties. This is a multidisciplinary resource for researchers and advanced students in geophysics, geodynamics, tectonics, petrology, and geochemistry, and for petroleum and mining industry professionals.
