"Advances in Earth Science: From Earthquakes to Global Warming" Peter R. Sammonds, J. M. T. Thompson (Repost)

This volume outlines the developments and research directions currently being made world-wide in the earth sciences. It contains invited and refereed articles by leading younger researchers on their cutting-edge research, but aimed at a general scientific audience.

This exciting volume explains how powerful methodologies such as satellite remote sensing and supercomputing simulations are now profoundly changing research in the earth sciences; how the earth system is increasingly being viewed in a holistic way, linking the atmosphere, ocean and solid earth; and how the societal impact of the research in the earth sciences has never been more important.

Contents
Preface Chris Hawkesworth
Profiles of the Editors and Authors
Introduction Peter Sammonds
Environmental Change
Dynamics of the Earth
Applied Earth Science
Section 1: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
The Price of Climate Change
Carbon in the Atmosphere and Terrestrial Biosphere in the Early Anthropocene
Dust in the Earth System: The Biogeochemical Linking of Land, Air, and Sea
The Late Permian Mass Extinction Event and Recovery: Biological Catastrophe in a Greenhouse World
Section 2: DYNAMICS OF THE EARTH
Space-Plasma Imaging — Past, Present and Future
Fault Structure, Stress, Friction and Rupture Dynamics of Earthquakes
Some Remarks on the Time Scales of Magmatic Processes Occurring Beneath Island Arc Volcanoes
The Break-Up of Continents and the Generation of Ocean Basins
Properties and Evolution of the Earth's Core and Geodynamo
Section 3: APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE
Giant Catastrophic Landslides
Remote Monitoring of the Earthquake Cycle using Satellite Radar Interferometry
Human Influence on the Global Geochemical Cycle of Lead
Natural and Artificial Platinum and Palladium Occurrences World-Wide
Data Assimilation and Objectively Optimised Earth Observation
Afterword Bill McGuire
Index