ADVANCES IN EARTH SCIENCE<br> From Earthquakes to Global Warming

ADVANCES IN EARTH SCIENCE
From Earthquakes to Global Warming

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
Section 1: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
The Price of Climate Change David S. Reay	3
Carbon in the Atmosphere and Terrestrial Biosphere in the Early Anthropocene Yadvinder Malhi	25
Dust in the Earth System: The Biogeochemical Linking of Land, Air, and Sea Andy Ridgwell and Karen E. Kohfeld	51
The Late Permian Mass Extinction Event and Recovery: Biological Catastrophe in a Greenhouse World Richard J. Twitchett	69
Section 2: DYNAMICS OF THE EARTH
Space-Plasma Imaging — Past, Present and Future Cathryn N. Mitchell	93
Fault Structure, Stress, Friction and Rupture Dynamics of Earthquakes Eiichi Fukuyama	109
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
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
BACK MATTER	311
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