Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere

"This updated edition includes recent advances in data acquisition, spectral data analysis, and new understanding of spatial and temporal variations in the strength of the lithosphere in its response to loading. An invaluable resource to students and researchers, it uses a simplified mathematical treatment and includes numerous geological examples"--

List of contents

1. The Development of the Concept of Isostasy; 2. Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere; 3. Theory of Elastic Plates; 4. Geological Examples of the Flexure Model of Isostasy; 5. Isostatic Response Functions; 6. Isostasy and the Physical Nature of the Lithosphere; 7. Isostasy and the Origin of Geological Features in the Continents and Oceans; 8. Isostasy and the Terrestrial Planets; References; Index.

About the author

A. B. Watts is Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences, at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society; a recipient of the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London, the Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union and the Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union; and the author of 240 refereed publications.

Product details

• Authors: A. B. Watts, A. B. (University of Oxford) Watts, Watts A. B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009278928
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927892-8
• No. of pages: 520
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; World, Geophysics, Gravity, SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics, Space, planets and extraterrestrial locations, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing