Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 8: Core Dynamics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780444534576)

Treaties on Geophysics: Core Dynamics, Volume 8, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of understanding of core dynamics. The book begins by analyzing a subject of long-standing and on-going controversy: the gross energetics of the core. It then explains the important elements of dynamo theory; actual fluid motions in the core; the basic physical principles involved in thermochemical convection in the core and the basic equations governing the convection; and turbulence and the small-scale dynamics of the core. This is followed by discussions of the state of knowledge on rotation-induced core flows; the use of first-principles numerical models of self-sustaining fluid dynamos; and the behavior of polarity reversals in numerical dynamo models. The remaining chapters cover the various roles the inner core plays in core dynamics and the geodynamo; experiments that have shaped knowledge about the flows in the core that produce the geodynamo and govern its evolution; and ways the mantle can affect core dynamics, and corresponding ways the core can affect the mantle.

Author: Peter L. Olson
ISBN-10: 0444534571
ISBN-13: 9780444534576
Publisher: Elsevier
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 7000
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.50w x 0.80d