Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere
Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere
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10.1017/9781139027748
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2001-10
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A. Watts
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同位素是一个简单的概念，但它长期困扰着地质学和地球物理学的学生。这个完全更新的版本提供了工具，以更好地理解这一概念，使用简化的数学处理，众多的地质例子，和广泛的参考书目。它首先追溯了本地和区域模型背后的想法，然后描述了理论背景，观测证据。它现在还包括在景观演变和动态地形和岩石圈的记忆，继承和新的美国宇航局使命地形和重力数据的讨论挠曲的作用的探索。这本书最后讨论了弯曲在理解地球及其邻近行星表面特征演变中的作用。它的对象是地质学和地球物理学的高年级本科生和研究生，重力学、大地测量学、沉积盆地形成、造山运动和行星地质学的研究人员也会感兴趣。
Isostasy is a simple concept, yet it has long perplexed students of geology and geophysics. This fully updated edition provides the tools to better understand this concept using a simplified mathematical treatment, numerous geological examples, and an extensive bibliography. It starts by tracing the ideas behind local and regional models of isostasy before describing the theoretical background, the observational evidence. It now also includes an exploration of the role of flexure in landscape evolution and dynamic topography and discussions of lithosphere memory, inheritance, and new NASA mission topography and gravity data. The book concludes with a discussion of flexure's role in understanding the evolution of the surface features of the Earth and its neighboring planets. Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of geology and geophysics, it will also be of interest to researchers in gravity, geodesy, sedimentary basin formation, mountain building and planetary geology.