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Introduction to the physics of the Earth's interior
- Title
- Introduction to the physics of the Earth's interior / Jean-Paul Poirier.
- Author
- Poirier, Jean-Paul.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | QE509 .P64 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 264 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Introduction to the Physics of the Earth's Interior describes the structure, composition and temperature of the deep Earth in one comprehensive volume." "Like the first edition, this will be a useful textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in geophysics and mineralogy. It will also be of great value to researchers in Earth sciences, physics and materials sciences."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge topics in mineral physics and chemistry ; 3
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge topics in mineral physics and chemistry ; 3.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
- Contents
- Background of thermodynamics of solids -- Extensive and intensive conjugate quantities -- Thermodynamic potentials -- Maxwell's relations. Stiffnesses and compliances -- Elastic moduli -- Background of linear elasticity -- Elastic constants and moduli -- Thermoelastic coupling -- Generalities -- Isothermal and adiabatic moduli -- Thermal pressure -- Lattice vibrations -- Vibrations of a monatomic lattice -- Dispersion curve of an infinite lattice -- Density of states of a finite lattice -- Debye's approximation -- Debye's frequency -- Vibrational energy and Debye temperature -- Specific heat -- Validity of Debye's approximation -- Mie -- Gruneisen equation of state -- The Gruneisen parameters -- Harmonicity, anharmonicity and quasi-harmonicity -- Generalities -- Thermal expansion -- Equations of state -- Murnaghan's integrated linear equation of state -- Birch -- Murnaghan equation of state -- Finite strain -- Second-order Birch -- Murnaghan equation of state -- Third-order Birch -- Murnaghan equation of state -- A logarithmic equation of state -- The Hencky finite strain -- The logarithmic EOS -- Equations of state derived from interatomic potentials -- EOS derived from the Mie potential -- The Vinet equation of state -- Birch's law and velocity -- density systematics -- Bulk-velocity -- density systematics -- Thermal equations of state -- Shock-wave equations of state -- Generalities -- The Rankine -- Hugoniot equations -- Reduction of the Hugoniot data to isothermal equation of state -- First principles equations of state.
- Thomas -- Fermi equation of state -- Ab-initio quantum mechanical equations of state -- Melting -- Thermodynamics of melting -- Clausius -- Clapeyron relation -- Volume and entropy of melting -- Metastable melting -- Semi-empirical melting laws -- Simon equation -- Kraut -- Kennedy equation -- Theoretical melting models -- Shear instability models -- Vibrational instability: Lindemann law -- Lennard-Jones and Devonshire model -- Dislocation-mediated melting -- Melting of lower-mantle minerals -- Melting of MgSiO[subscript 3] perovskite -- Melting of MgO and magnesiowustite -- Phase diagram and melting of iron -- Transport properties -- Mechanisms of diffusion in solids -- Viscosity of solids -- Diffusion and viscosity in liquid metals -- Electrical conduction -- Generalities on the electronic structure of solids -- Mechanisms of electrical conduction -- Electrical conductivity of mantle minerals -- Electrical conductivity of the fluid core -- Thermal conduction -- Earth models -- Seismological models -- Density distribution in the Earth -- The PREM model -- Thermal models -- Sources of heat -- Heat transfer by convection -- Convection patterns in the mantle -- Geotherms -- Mineralogical models -- Phase transitions of the mantle minerals -- Mantle and core models -- PREM model (1s) for the mantle and core.
- ISBN
- 0521380979
- 9780521380973
- 0521388015
- 9780521388016
- LCCN
- 90025400
- OCLC
- ocm22858682
- 22858682
- SCSB-1918180
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library