B. L. N. Kennett is Director and Distinguished Professor of Seismology at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra. Professor Kennett's research interests are directed towards understanding the structure of the Earth through seismological observations. He is the recipient of the 2006 Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London, and the 2007 Gutenberg Medal of the European Geosciences Union, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Professor Kennett is the author of three other books for Cambridge University Press: Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media (1983), The Seismic Wavefield: Introduction and Theoretical Development (2001), and The Seismic Wavefield: Interpretation of Seismograms on Regional and Global Scales (2002).
1. Introduction
Part I. Continuum Mechanics in Geophysics: 2. Description of deformation
3. The stress field concept
4. Constitutive relations
5. Linearised elasticity and viscoelasticity
6. Continua under pressure
7. Fluid flow
8. Continuum equations and boundary conditions
Part II. Earth Deformation: 9. From the atomic scale to the continuum
10. Geological deformation
11. Seismology and Earth structure
12. Lithospheric deformation
13. The influence of rheology - asthenosphere to the deep mantle
14. Mantle convection
15. The core and the Earth's dynamo
Appendix. Table of notation
Bibliography
Index.
