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From the Foreword:"This series has provided workers in many fields with invaluable reference material and criticism."--Science Progress"Should be on the bookshelf of every geophysicist."--Physics Today"The entire series should be in the library of every group working in geophysics."--American Scientist
- Front Cover
- Advances in Geophysics, Volume 38
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Aftershocks and Fault-Zone Properties
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Phenomenology of Aftershocks
- 3. Temporal Behavior of Aftershocks
- 4. Analysis of Data
- 5. Physical Factors Controlling the Rate of Decay
- 6. Class 3 Aftershocks and Events Triggered at Large Distances
- 7. Discussion and Future Research Opportunities
- References
- Chapter 2. On Fire at Ten
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Scientific Background
- 3. FIRE86
- 4. FIRE87
- 5. FIRE91
- 6. ASTEX
- 7. Cloud Parameterizations
- 8. FIRE and ISCCP
- 9. FIRE in the Classroom
- 10. Future Issues
- References
- Chapter 3. Dissipation of Tidal Energy. Paleotides, and Evolution of the Earth - Moon System
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tidal Energy Budget in the Ocean-Lithosphere-Atmosphere System
- 3. The Problem of Tidal Energy Dissipation and the Tidal Energy Cycle in the Ocean-Lithosphere-Atmosphere System
- 4. Models of Tidal Evolution of the Earth-Moon System with a Phase-Lagged Ellipsoid Approximation of the Earth
- 5. Evolution of the Ocean and Ocean Tides through Geologic Time
- 6. Models of Earth-Moon Tidal Evolution Taking into Account Changing Resonance Properties of the Ocean
- 7. Conclusions
- List of Principal Symbols
- References
- Index
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