Relating Geophysical Structures and Processes: The Jeffreys Volume

Geophysical Monograph Series......Page 1
Relating Geophysical Structures and Processes The Jeffreys Volume......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 8
FOREWORD......Page 10
JEFFREY'S CAREER......Page 11
THE TREATISE THE EARTH......Page 12
FLUID DYNAMICS AND NUTATIONS OF THE EARTH AND MOON......Page 13
SEISMOLOGICAL TRAVEL-TIMES......Page 14
SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE IN THE EARTH......Page 15
GEODYNAMICS......Page 16
GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS......Page 17
REFERENCES......Page 18
The Ionosphere......Page 21
REFERENCES......Page 26
2. A BALANCED VORTEX......Page 29
3. EVOLUTION OF A VORTEX......Page 31
4. DEVELOPMENT OF HURRICANES......Page 32
5. INTERACTION WITH LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS......Page 34
REFERENCES......Page 35
INTRODUCTION......Page 37
SUB-LITHOSPHERIC LOADING - HOT SPOT EXAMPLES......Page 38
RIDGE PUSH......Page 41
SUBDUCTION PULL......Page 43
COLLISION PULL......Page 45
CONCLUSIONS......Page 46
REFERENCES......Page 47
Introduction......Page 49
A Rheological Model For Subducting Plate Boundary......Page 50
Thermal Regimes in Subduction Zones......Page 52
Implications for Comparative Subductology......Page 54
Discussions and Conclusions......Page 57
References......Page 59
INTRODUCTION......Page 63
SOURCES OF  INFORMATION......Page 64
VELOCITY STRUCTURE FROM SURFACE WAVES - WESTERN EUROPE......Page 66
VELOCITY STRUCTURE FROM BODY WAVE OBSERVATIONS- NORTHERN AUSTRALIA......Page 68
SUMMARY INFORMATION ON THE UPPER MANTLE......Page 70
Radial structure......Page 72
Lateral Variability......Page 73
REFERENCE......Page 74
INTRODUCTION......Page 77
The Global Spectmm of SS Residuals......Page 80
Synthetic Tests......Page 82
Other Observations and Geodynamic Functions......Page 83
Perturbation theory......Page 87
Inversion and the Resulting Models......Page 89
Discussion of the Models......Page 95
TOMOGRAPHIC MODELS AND VISCOUS FLOW IN THE MANTLE......Page 101
Nonhydrostatic Geoid......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 112
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 116
2. THE TORQUE EXERTED BY THE CORE ON THE MANTLE......Page 117
3. VELOCITY AND PRESURE FIELDS IN THE CORE......Page 118
4. TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY......Page 119
5. PREDICTED TORQUES AND LENGTH-OF-DAY VARIATIONS......Page 122
6. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 124
REFERENCES......Page 127
EVIDENCE FOR MANTLE-CORE REACTIONS......Page 130
INFILTRATION AND PARTIAL MIXING OF METALS......Page 131
HETEROGENEOUS ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY......Page 132
ANISOTROPY IN C"......Page 134
REFERENCES......Page 135
SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS IN THE EARTH......Page 137
Low-pressure Models......Page 139
DISCUSSION......Page 140
REFERENCES......Page 141