The Geophysics of the Pacific Ocean Basin and Its Margin

The Geophysics of the Pacific Ocean Basin and Its Margin

Author: George Prior Woollard

Publisher: American Geophysical Union

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13: 0875900194

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 19. The papers included in this volume were originally presented at the International Woollard Symposium held at the Kahala Hilton Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 8 through December 10, 1974. The symposium honored Professor George P. Woollard on the occasion of his 66th birthday. It was cosponsored by the University of Hawaii, where Professor Woollard is Director of the University of Hawaii's Institute of Geophysics, by the U.S. Geodynamics Committee, by the Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics of the International Council of Scientific Unions, and by the following Sponsoring and Organizing Committee: Philip H. Abelson; L. Thomas Aldrich; Orson L. Anderson; William E. Bonini; Edward C. Bullard; Ramon R. Cabre; S.J.R.M. Demenitskaya; Charles L. Drake; John I. Ewing; Maurice Ewing (Deceased); Richard A. Geyer; Alberto A. Giesecke; Wytze Gorter (Chancellor, University of Hawaii at Manoa); Anton L. Hales; John Brackett Hersey; Everett Dale Jackson; Gordon A. Macdonald; Henry W. Menard, Jr.; Robert P. Meyer; Julio Monges-Caldera; Jack E. Oliver; Frank Press; Russell W. Raitt; Donald A. Rice; George H. Sutton; Manik Talwani; G. B. Udintsev; Seiya Uyeda; Tjeerd H. van Andel; J. Tuzo Wilson; J. Lamar Worzel. The Organizing Committee set the theme and scope of the meeting: the symposium was to explore the edge of knowledge, in those fields of science that during the past decade have been the principal concern of Professor Woollard and his associates and students, of the Pacific Ocean basin and its margin. A Program Committee was charged with inviting papers from internationally known scientists, for the following sessions: Gravity and Geodesy Seismology Magnetism Marine Geology and Tectonics Volcanology and Petrology Tectonophysics.


Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere

Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere

Author: A. B. Watts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-09-30

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1009278924

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A unique overview of isostasy featuring recent advances in spectral data analysis and understanding of variations in lithospheric strength.


Oceanography from Space

Oceanography from Space

Author: Vittorio Barale

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-04-26

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9048186811

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To all those sailors / Who dreamed before us / Of another way to sail the oceans. The dedication of this Volume is meant to recall, and honour, the bold pioneers of ocean exploration, ancient as well as modern. As a marine scientist, dealing with the oceans through the complex tools, ?lters and mechanisms of contemporary research, I have always wondered what it was like, in centuries past, to look at that vast ho- zon with the naked eye, not knowing what was ahead, and yet to sail on. I have tried to imagine what ancient sailors felt, when “the unknown swirls around and engulfs the mind”, as a forgotten author simply described the brave, perhaps reckless, act of facing such a hostile, menacing and yet fascinating adventure. Innovation has always been the key element, I think, for their success: another way, a better way, a more effective, safer and worthier way was the proper answer to the challenge. The map of our world has been changed time and again, from the geographical as well as the social, economic and scienti?c points of view, by the new discoveries of those sailors. One of the positive qualities of human beings is without doubt the inborn desire to expand their horizons, to see what lies beyond, to learn and understand.


Active Margins and Marginal Basins of the Western Pacific

Active Margins and Marginal Basins of the Western Pacific

Author: Brian Taylor

Publisher: American Geophysical Union

Published: 1995-01-09

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0875900453

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 88. This volume focuses on the volcanic, fluid, sedimentary, and tectonic processes occurring in the trencharc-backarc systems of the western Pacific—a natural regional focus for studies of these themes. The results of ocean drilling and associated site surveys in the western Pacific have brought fundamental changes to our understanding of volcanism, crustal deformation, fluid circulation, and sedimentation in active margins and marginal basins. Our goal here is to synthesize the results of ocean drilling in a multi-disciplinary manner, including a comparison of the findings from drilling legs having similar themes, and to emphasize the significance of these results to the broader geoscience community.


Surge Tectonics: A New Hypothesis of Global Geodynamics

Surge Tectonics: A New Hypothesis of Global Geodynamics

Author: Arthur A. Meyerhoff

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1996-08-31

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0792341562

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TECTONlCS AND PHYSICS Geology, although rooted in the laws of physics, rarely has been taught in a manner designed to stress the relations between the laws and theorems of physics and the postulates of geology. The same is true of geophysics, whose specialties (seismology, gravimetIy, magnetics, magnetotellurics) deal only with the laws that govern them, and not with those that govern geology's postulates. The branch of geology and geophysics called tectonophysics is not a formalized discipline or subdiscipline, and, therefore, has no formal laws or theorems of its own. Although many recent books claim to be textbooks in tectonophysics, they are not; they are books designed to explain one hypothesis, just as the present book is designed to explain one hypothesis. The textbook that comes closest to being a textbook of tectonophysics is Peter 1. Wyllie's (1971) book, The Dynamic Earth. Teachers, students, and practitioners of geology since the very beginning of earth science teaching have avoided the development of a rigorous (but not rigid) scientific approach to tectonics, largely because we earth scientists have not fully understood the origin of the features with which we are dealing. This fact is not at all surprising when one considers that the database for hypotheses and theories of tectonics, particularly before 1960, has been limited to a small part of the exposed land area on the Earth's surface.


Nazca Plate

Nazca Plate

Author: LaVerne D. Kulm

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 0813711541

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A volume dedicated to George P. Woollard.


The Sea Floor

The Sea Floor

Author: Eugen Seibold

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 3662225190

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Man's understanding of how this planet is put together and how it evolved has changed radically during the last 30 years. This great revolution in geology - now usually subsumed under the concept of Plate Tectonics - brought the realization that convection within the Earth is responsible for the origin of today's ocean basins and conti nents, and that the grand features of the Earth's surface are the product of ongoing large-scale horizontal motions. Some of these notions were put forward earlier in this century (by A. Wegener, in 1912, and by A. Holmes, in 1929), but most of the new ideas were an outgrowth of the study of the ocean floor after World War II. In its impact on the earth sciences, the plate tectonics revolution is comparable to the upheaval wrought by the ideas of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), which started the intense discussion on the evolution of the biospere that has recently heated up again. Darwin drew his inspiration from observations on island life made during the voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836), and his work gave strong impetus to the first global oceanographic expedition, the voyage of HMS Challenger (1872- 1876). Ever since, oceanographic research has been intimately associ ated with fundamental advances in the knowledge of Earth. This should come as no surprise. After all, our planet's surface is mostly ocean.


The Solid Earth

The Solid Earth

Author: C. M. R. Fowler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-06-29

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9780521385909

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A general introduction to the study of modern physics of the solid Earth, including how the Earth's surface operates and the workings of the Earth's deep interior. The emphasis throughout the discussion is on basic physical principles rather than intrument