UID:
almafu_9960072258402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (315 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1-281-77252-6
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9786611772529
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0-08-087058-9
Serie:
Elsevier oceanography series ; 22
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Marine Gravity; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; Some scientific contributions from gravimetry; Purpose of making gravity measurements; Evaluation and analysis of gravity measurements; Components of the earth's gravity field; Historical development of gravimetry; CHAPTER 2. GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION AND POTENTIAL-GEOID AND REFERENCE SPHEROID; Gravitational acceleration; Gravitational potential; Geopotentials and the geoid; Earth spheroid and ellipsoid; Geoid determined from gravity measurements; Geoid determined from satellite orbits
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Form of a hydrostatic earth; CHAPTER 3. EARTH TIDES AND TIDAL DEFORMATIONS; Static theory of the earth tides; Tidal potentials; Love numbers and applications to earth deformations; Tidal friction; CHAPTER 4. INTERIOR STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES-GRAVITY-RELATEDASPECTS; Interior of the earth; Plate tectonics; Flexure of the lithosphere; Isostasy; Relation between gravity anomalies and elevation; CHAPTER 5. GRAVITY-MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; Gravimeter drift; Land gravimeters; Sea gravimeters; Earth-tide gravimeters; Pendulums; Free-motion, absolute gravity apparatuses; Gravity gradiometers
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Torsion balances; CHAPTER 6. GRAVITY REDUCTIONS, CORRECTIONS, AND ANOMALIES; Gravity reductions; Gravity corrections; Gravity anomalies; CHAPTER 7. ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR INTERPRETING GRAVITY ANOMALIES; Regional and residual anomalies; Integration methods for mathematically described bodies; Maximum depth and depth-to-top-of-body estimates; Total mass determinations; Line-integral methods; Numerical methods; Templates; Inverse methods for integrating gravity anomalies; CHAPTER 8. MARINE GRAVITY STUDIES; Gravity anomalies and structural sections; APPENDIX A - CONVERSION OF UNITS
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APPENDIX B - NUMERICAL DATA CONCERNING THE EARTH; APPENDIX C - FORMULAS FOR COMPUTING EARTH-TIDE ACCELERATIONS; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-444-41680-3
Sprache:
Englisch
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