地球科学前沿 从地震到全球变暖 英文版PDF电子书下载

Cosmology and the Big Bang 1

1．Thirteen Billiou Years in Half an Hour&Bruce A. Bassett 3

2．The Paradigmn of Inflation&J. García-Bellido 19

3．Cosmology with Varying Constants&C.J.A.P. Martins 41

4．Small Scales,Big Issues for Cold Dark Matter&Andrew J. Benson 59

5．Violence and Black Holes in the Hearts of Galaxies&Carole G. Mundell 77

Probing the Universe 97

6．First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Results:Implications for Cosmology and Inflation&Hiranya Peiris 99

7．Quest for Gravitational Waves&B.S. Sathyaprakash 123

8．Strong-Field Tests of Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars&Michael Kramer 123

9．Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes&Nial R. Tanvir 127

Some Remarks on the Time Scales of Magmatic Processes Occurring Beneath Island Arc Volcanoes&Simon P. Turner 133

The Break-Up of Continents and the Generation of Ocean Basins&T.A. Minshull 153

Properties and Evolution of the Earth's Core and Geodynamo&F. Nimmo and D. Alfè 167

Section 3:APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE 211

Giant Catastrophic Landslides&Christopher R.J. Kilburn 213

Remote Monitoring of the Earthquake Cycle using Satellite Radar Interferometry&Tim J. Wright 229

Human Influence on the Global Geochemical Cycle of Lead&Dominik J. Weiss,Malin E. Kylander and Matthew K. Reuer 245

Natural and Artificial Platinum and Palladium Occurrences World-Wide&Hazel M. Prichard 273

Data Assimilation and Objectively Optimised Earth Observation&David J. Lary and Anuradha Koratkar 293

Afterword&Bill McGuire 311

Index 313