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Geophysics : a Very Short Introduction by Lowrie, William is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth's magnetic field (present and past, as captured in rocks), all of which give clues to both the structure and the working of the Earth. In this Very Short Introduction, William Lowrie describes the internal and external processes that affect the planet, as well as the principles and methods of geophysics used to in
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lowrie, William
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Academic UK
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192511324
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Stem
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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