Author: Robert C. Bostrom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195090284
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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This volume reviews the cumulative evidence suggesting that a connection may exist between the Earth's rotation and geotectonics. Among other benefits, such a connection may assist in deciphering the flow of the Earth's mantle.
Author: Kurt Lambeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521673303
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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An analysis of the irregular rotation of the Earth and the geophysical mechanisms responsible for it.
Author: Carolyn C. Qualle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Peter Brosche
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Peter Brosche
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642755879
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Earth's Rotation from Eons to Days reviews long-term changes, methods of measurement, and the major influences on rotation parameters. In order to understand secular changes, the momentary behavior of ocean tides must be analyzed and appropriately modelled. Researchers and students in astronomy and all fields of geosciences will find a wealth of information related to the interaction of geophysical phenomena and the rotation of the planet Earth.
Author: William Morris Davis
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Author: Robert Maurer
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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This work explores the nature and origin of the forces responsible for the unrelenting unidirectional movements of continental sized masses away from what was Pangea c. 275 Ma years ago to their present positions. The analysis given demonstrates that the forces responsible for tectonic movements are related to the rotational velocity of the Earth which is dependent on the Sun's gravitational pull on the asymmetrical positioning of the Earth's centre of mass. The resultant unbalanced rotation gives rise to the Earth's wobble and the significant circumferential forces that move the continental masses. It is these tectonic movements in which continental and oceanic crusts are continuously forced into the mantle, that forever ensures that the lithosphere is recycled and regenerated. Furthermore, the offset 'centre of mass' gives rise to the generated and tilted N-S principal axis of rotation that applies to all the planets. This action also yields a viable explanation regarding why all the planets (Venus apart) rotate in the same direction as the Sun.
Author: William C. Redfield
Publisher:
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Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Author: Fernando Sansò
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540385967
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Geodesy is the science dealing with the determination of the position of points in space, the shape and gravity field of the Earth and with their time variations. This book collects 36 selected papers from the International Symposium on Geodetic Deformation Monitoring held in Jaén (Spain) from 17th to 19th March 2005. It contains a good overview of theoretical matters, models and results.
Author: Robert J. Malcuit
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319113887
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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This book explains how it came to be that Venus and Earth, while very similar in chemical composition, zonation, size and heliocentric distance from the Sun, are very different in surface environmental conditions. It is argued here that these differences can be accounted for by planetoid capture processes and the subsequent evolution of the planet-satellite system. Venus captured a one-half moon-mass planetoid early in its history in the retrograde direction and underwent its “fatal attraction scenario” with its satellite (Adonis). Earth, on the other hand, captured a moon-mass planetoid (Luna) early in its history in prograde orbit and underwent a benign estrangement scenario with its captured satellite.
