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Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 8

Core Dynamics

  • 1st Edition - October 17, 2007
  • Editor: Peter L. Olson
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 1 9 3 6 - 8
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 4 5 7 - 6
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 5 7 7 - 1

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 subjec… Read more

Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 8

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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.