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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: earth's shape and gravity
  name:
    name part: Garland, George D. (George David)
    name part: 1926-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: abstract or summary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1977
    edition: [Reprinted with corrections 1977].
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 185 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The Earth's Shape and Gravity.
  table of contents: Front Cover; The Earth's Shape and Gravity; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Gravity, Geophysics, Geodesy and Geology; Fundamental Concepts; Gravity Measurements and Reductions; The Potential and Equipotential Surfaces; CHAPTER 2. Gravity Measurements; Absolute Measurements; Relative Measurements; Measurements from a Moving Vehicle; Gravity Networks; CHAPTER 3. The Shape of the Sea-level Surface; Introduction; The Aims of Geodesy; The Spheroid; Clairaut's Theorem; The Undulations of the Geoid; Expansion of the External Field in Spherical Harmonics.
  table of contents: Deflection of the VerticalThe Contribution of Satellite Observations; CHAPTER 4. The Reduction of Gravity Observations; Variation of Gravity with Height; Variation of Gravity within the Earth; Gravity Anomalies; Variation of Free-air and Bouguer Anomalies over the Earth; Isostasy: Compensation of Surface Features; CHAPTER 5. The Interpretation of Gravity Anomalies; General Principles; Indirect Methods; Direct Methods; CHAPTER 6. Gravity Anomalies and the interior of the Earth; The Nature of the Earth's Interior; Low Order Harmonics in the Gravitational Field; Regional Studies of Isostasy.
  table of contents: CHAPTER 7. Gravity Anomalies and Structures in the Earthi's CrustRock Densities; Ocean Trenches; The Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Granite Batholiths in Continental Areas; Sedimentary Basins; Masses of Basic and Ultrabasic Rock; Areas of Post-glacial Uplift; Existing Glaciers; Meteor Craters; CHAPTER 8. The Place of Gravity Measurements in Geophysical Prospecting; Observations and Reductions; Isolation of Anomalies; Exploration for Petroleum; Exploration for Minerals; CHAPTER 9. Tidal Variation of Gravity; Tidal Accelerations; Variation of Gravity on a Rigid Earth.
  table of contents: Variation of Gravity on a Yielding EarthEarth-Tide Measurements; Comparison with Earth Models; APPENDIX 1: The Elements of Potential Theory; The Potential Function; Potentials of Spherical Distributions; General Properties of Potential Fields; Development of the Potential in Series; Boundary Value Problems in Potential Theory; Plane Sheet of Mass Equivalent to a Given Field; Laplace's Equation in Spherical Coordinates; Potential of a Coating on a Sphere; APPENDIX 2: Equilibrium Form of a Rotating Fluid; APPENDIX 3: Determination of the External Field from Satellite Observations; Bibliography.
  note: by G.D. Garland.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177).
  subject:
    topic: Gravity
  subject:
    topic: Gravité
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Earth Sciences
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Cartography
  subject:
    topic: Gravity
  classification: QB331 .G3 1977eb
  classification: 526.7
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    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 140627
    record change date: 20260326205325.9
    record identifier: in00005755144
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng