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Solid-Earth Sciences and Society.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- SOLID-EARTH SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
- Copyright
- NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
- Prologue
- SOCIETAL CHALLENGES FOR EARTH SCIENCES
- RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
- Objectives
- Research Areas
- EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
- Contents
- Preface
- COMMITTEE PROCESS
- STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT
- Executive Summary
- PRESENT STATE OF THE SOLID-EARTH SCIENCES
- PRIORITIES
- Priority Themes: Objectives and Research Areas
- Selection of High-Priority Research Opportunities
- PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
- Personnel Requirements
- Education Requirements
- Facilities and EquipmentData Gathering and Handling
- Funding for Priority Themes
- Global Collaboration
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- Education Recommendations
- Research Recommendations
- Priority Theme A-I
- Priority Theme A-II
- Priority Theme A-III
- Priority Theme A-IV
- Priority Theme A-V
- Priority Theme B
- Priority Theme C
- Priority Theme D
- General Recommendations
- 1 Global Overview
- ESSAY ON THE EARTH SCIENCES
- Living on Earth
- Understanding the Earth
- Predicting the Earth's Future
- THE EARTH AND ITS COMPONENTS
- UNIFYING FORCES IN THE GEOLOGICAL SCIENCESPlate Tectonics
- Images of the Earth
- Variations in the Earth's Orbit
- Humankind as a Geological Agent
- GOALS OF THE EARTH SCIENCES: RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
- Goal, Objectives, and Research Themes
- Research Framework
- Priority Theme Selection
- PRIORITY THEMES: RESEARCH AREAS
- Priority Theme A-I: Global Paleoenvironments and Biological Evolution
- Priority Theme A-II: Global Geochemical and Biogeochemical Cycles
- Priority Theme A-III: Fluids in and on the Earth
- Priority Theme A-IV: Crustal Dynamics: Ocean and ContinentsPriority Theme A-V: Core and Mantle Dynamics
- PRIORITY THEMES: OBJECTIVES
- Priority Theme B: Sustaining Resource Supplies
- Priority Theme C: Preventing Damage from Geological Hazards
- Priority Theme D: Assessing, Mitigating, and Remediating Effects of Environmental and Global Change
- RESEARCH SUPPORT
- Federal Funding
- Industry Support of University Research
- INSTRUMENTATION, COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY, AND DATA MANAGEMENT
- Facilities and Instruments
- Data Handling
- EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENTINTERNATIONAL SCOPE
- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT
- 2 Understanding Our Active Planet
- ESSAY: THE DYNAMIC EARTH
- ORIGIN OF THE EARTH
- Comparative Planetology
- Early Earth Evolution and Great Impacts
- STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE SOLID EARTH
- Seismic Determinations of Earth Structure
- Mantle Convection
- Core Dynamics and Geomagnetism
- Core-Mantle Boundary
- EARTHQUAKES: CONSEQUENCES OF A DYNAMIC MANTLE
- Geographic Distribution
- Understanding Earthquakes
- Earth Deformation