Mbar Seminar


To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
Plato (515c), in Republic; Jowett Translation



Reading and Resources:

Papers:
  • Zhang, J. et al. (2005) Inner Core Differential Motion Confirmed by Earthquake Waveform Doublets, Science, 309, 1357-1360.
  • Song, X., and Richards, P. G. (1996) Seismological evidence for differential rotation of the Earth's inner core, Nature, 382, 221-224.
  • Jung, H., and Karato, S. (2001) Water-Induced Fabric Transitions in Olivine, Science, 293, 1460-1463.
  • Jung, H. et al. (2006) Effect of water an stress on the lattice-preferred orientation of olivine, Tectonophysics, 421, 1 - 22.
  • Dziewonski, A. M., and D. L. Anderson (1981) Preliminary Reference Earth Model. Physics of the Earth and planetary Interiors, 25, 297-356.
  • Birch, F. (1952) Elasticity and Constitution of the Earth's Interior. J. Geophys. Res., 57, 227 - 286.

    • Books:
  • Anderson, D. L. (1989) Theory of the Earth. Blackwell Scientific Publications.
  • Hubbard, W. B. (1984) Planetary Interiors. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., pp 334.
  • Stacey, F. D. (1992) Physics of the Earth (3rd ed). Brookfield Press, Brisbane, Australia, pp 513.
  • Verhoogen, J. (1979) Energetics of the Earth. National Academy of Sciences; pp 139.

    Other links:
  • American Geophysical Union