The Earth Today. A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Sir Harold Jeffreys by Some of his Students & Colleagues .

Cook, A.H.; & Gaskell, T.F.; editors:

Edité par Oliver & Boyd (1961), Edinburgh, 1961

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orig.cloth Some rubbing, side margins of 3 pages rumpled, Good., dustwrappe Textual maps,graphs & tables 25x17cm, xi,404,(1)pp, In a heavily rubbed, torn & chipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper missing a large piece. Some top page-edge so Full title concludes: ".on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday". Contains 25 papers concerning the Earth's Gravitational Field, Seismology: Body Waves & Surface Waves; Free Oscillations; Thermal State; Geodesy; Composition; Continents; Atmosphere & Oceans; Instruments. Includes: R.H. Merson "The Motion of a Satellite in an Axi-Symmetric Gravitational Field";A.H. Cook "Resonant Orbits of Artificial Satellites & Longitude Terms in the Earth's External Gravitational Potential"; A. Marussi "Intrinsic Coordinates in Practical Geodesy"; K.E. Bullen "Seismic Ray Theory"; M. Bath "Polarization of Transverse Seismic Waves"; I. Lehmann "S & the Structure of the Upper Mantle"; L. Knopoff "Green's Function for Eigenvalue Problems & the Inversion of Love Wave Dispersion Data"; Z. Alterman, et al: "Propagation of Rayleigh Waves in the Earth"; H. Takeuchi "Torsional Oscillations of the Earth"; J.A. Jacobs "Some Aspects of the Thermal History of the Earth"; F. Birch "Composition of the Earth's Mantle"W.H. Munk & E.S.M. Hassan "Atmospheric Excitation of the Earth's Wobble", etc. Some rubbing, side margins of 3 pages rumpled, Good., dustwrappe.

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• Titre: The Earth Today. A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Sir Harold Jeffreys by Some of his Students & Colleagues .
• Éditeur: Oliver & Boyd (1961), Edinburgh
• Date de parution: 1961
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette