Earth System Geophysics Contributor(s): Dickman, Steve R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1119627958 ISBN-13: 9781119627951 Publisher: American Geophysical Union OUR PRICE: $81.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2024 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of September 4, 2024 |
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BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Geophysics |
Dewey: 550 |
LCCN: 2023054144 |
Physical Information: 928 pages |
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Publisher Description: With burgeoning global observation techniques, many of them fundamentally geophysical and global concerns, Earth science has evolved into Earth System Science, in which the surficial fluid components of the Earth System and their interactions with the entire Earth System are of prime importance. Geophysics has reflected this evolution, as we can see in the diverse fields of research now nurtured under the umbrella of the American Geophysical Union. But no comprehensive introductory geophysics textbook, suitable for geoscience or physical science majors, exists with an Earth System Science perspective. Earth System geophysics is not just geophysics with the atmosphere and oceans included, neither is it just geophysics with topics common to multiple components of the Earth System, such as isostasy involving the atmosphere and oceans instead of the solid earth, or low seismic velocity zones in the oceans and atmosphere instead of the solid earth included. Earth System geophysics most fundamentally recognizes that the natural world is characterized by a different, more universal paradigm than plate tectonics: convection, which every component of the Earth system exhibits, and which is sure to exist beyond our planet and beyond our Solar System. |