机械工业出版社PRSammonds and JMTThompson: Advances in Earth Science From Earthquakes to Global Warming ISBN 9781860947629 Published by Imperial College Press Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd English reprint copyright2011 by China Machine Press (CMP)
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关于《英国皇家学会前言科技丛书》的一点说明 Foreword Preface Cosmology and the Big Bang 1. Thirteen Billion Years in Half an Hour Bruce A. Bassett 2. The Paradigm of Inflation J. Garcia-Bellido 3. Cosmology with Varying Constants C. J. A. P. Martins 4. Small Scales, Big Issues for Cold Dark Matter Andrew J. Benson 5. Violence and Black Holes in the Hearts of Galaxies Carole G. Mundell Probing the Universe 6. First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Results: Implications for Cosmology and Inflation Hiranya Peiris 7. Quest for Gravitational Waves B. S. Sathyaprakash 8. Strong-Field Tests of Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars Michael Kramer 9. Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes Nial R. Tanvir Some Remarks on the Time Scales of Magmatic Processes Occurring Beneath Island Arc Volcanoes Simon P. Turner The Break-Up of Continents and the Generation of Ocean Basins T. A. Minshull Properties and Evolution of the Earth's Core and Geodynamo F. Nimmo and D. Alfe Section 3: APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE Giant Catastrophic Landslides Christopher R. J. Kilburn Remote Monitoring of the Earthquake Cycle using Satellite Radar Interferometry Tim J. Wright Human Influence on the Global Geochemical Cycle of Lead Dominik J. Weiss, Malin E. Kylander and Matthew K. Reuer Natural and Artificial Platinum and Palladium Occurrences World-Wide Hazel M. Prichard Data Assimilation and Objectively Optimised Earth Observation David J. Lary and Anuradha Koratkar Afterword Bill McGuire Index
