Departures from adiabatic conditions for the earth

The best type of information about the Earth's interior is seismic. Seismic wave velocity depends on the value of the bulk modulus of the rock. The geophysicist Sir Harold Jeffreys derived a relation between temperature and bulk modulus for solids. From this, and the well known variation of vel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Robert L.
Other Authors: Ball State University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.
Format: Others
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/handle/184124
http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834615