Author: Cook, A.H.; & Gaskell, T.F.; editors:
Title: The Earth Today. A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Sir Harold Jeffreys by Some of his Students & Colleagues ...
Description: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, (1961). orig.cloth. 25x17cm, xi,404,(1)pp, In a heavily rubbed, torn & chipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper missing a large piece. Some top page-edge so. Textual maps,graphs & tables. Some rubbing, side margins of 3 pages rumpled, Good. dustwrappe ¶ Full title concludes: "...on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday". Contains 25 papers concerning the Earth's Gravitational Field, Seismology: Body Waves & Surface Waves; Free Oscillations; Thermal State; Geodesy; Composition; Continents; Atmosphere & Oceans; Instruments. Includes: R.H. Merson "The Motion of a Satellite in an Axi-Symmetric Gravitational Field";A.H. Cook "Resonant Orbits of Artificial Satellites & Longitude Terms in the Earth's External Gravitational Potential"; A. Marussi "Intrinsic Coordinates in Practical Geodesy"; K.E. Bullen "Seismic Ray Theory"; M. Bath "Polarization of Transverse Seismic Waves"; I. Lehmann "S & the Structure of the Upper Mantle"; L. Knopoff "Green's Function for Eigenvalue Problems & the Inversion of Love Wave Dispersion Data"; Z. Alterman, et al: "Propagation of Rayleigh Waves in the Earth"; H. Takeuchi "Torsional Oscillations of the Earth"; J.A. Jacobs "Some Aspects of the Thermal History of the Earth"; F. Birch "Composition of the Earth's Mantle"W.H. Munk & E.S.M. Hassan "Atmospheric Excitation of the Earth's Wobble", etc.

Keywords: Geophysics, Geology, Geological, Physics Astronomy, Earth, Gravitational Field, Seismology, Geodesy, Thermal State