Global Dynamics of the Earth: Applications of Viscoelastic Relaxation Theory to Solid-Earth and Planetary Geophysics

• Main Authors: Sabadini, Roberto (Author), Vermeersen, Bert (Author), Cambiotti, Gabriele (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Physical geography.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Earth System Sciences.

This volume opens up new perspectives on the physics of the Earth’s interior and planetary bodies for graduate students and researchers working in the fields of geophysics, planetary sciences and geodesy. It looks at our planet in an integrated fashion, linking the physics of its interior to geophys...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Viscoelastic Relaxation Theory, Momentum and Poisson Equations
• 2. Incompressible and Compressible Analytical Viscoelastic Models
• 3. Rotational Dynamics of Viscoelastic Planets Linear Theory
• 4. TPW and J2 Induced by Ice-Sheet Loading
• 5. Detection of the Time-Dependent Gravity Field and Global Change
• 6. Sea-Level Changes
• 7. TPW driven by Subduction. Non-linear Rotation Theory
• 8. Post-seismic Deformation
• 9. Icy moons
• Appendices
• Index.