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"Editor-in-Chief Professor Gerald Schubert Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics University of California Los Angeles CA USA Volume Editors Volume 1 Seismology and the Structure of the Earth Dr Barbara Romanowicz University of California at Berkeley CA USA Dr Adam Dziewonski Harvard University MA USA Volume 2 Mineral Physics Dr G David Price University College London UK Volume 3 Geodesy Dr Tom Herring Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA USA Volume 4 Earthquake Seismology Dr Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA USA Volume 5 Geomagnetism Dr Masaru Kono Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan Volume 6 Crust and Lithosphere Dynamics Professor Anthony B Watts University of Oxford UK Volume 7 Mantle Dynamics Dr David Bercovici Yale University New Haven CT USA Volume 8 Core Dynamics Dr Peter Olson Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD USA Volume 9 Evolution of the Earth Dr David Stevenson California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA USA Volume 10 Planets and Moons Dr Tilman Spohn Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt Berlin Germany Preface Geophysics is the physics of the Earth, the science that studies the Earth by measuring its physical consequences. It requires ten volumes for a comprehensive description. Only a treatise can cover geophysics with such breadth and depth. While many books deal with its subdivisions, no single book can provide an in-depth treatment of each topic. Each volume of this treatise covers one aspect in great detail but the treatise as a whole is unique because it was designed as an integrated series for interdisciplinary science like geophysics. The treatise planned to cover each area from basics to cutting edge so that beginners could learn and advanced researchers have up-to-date thorough exposition. The editors ensured each subject benefited from connections with other areas. Geophysics includes Earth's fluid envelope and near-space environment but this treatise focuses on the solid Earth. Atmosphere, ocean, and plasmasphere are discussed only in relation to their impact on the solid planet. Geophysics is interdisciplinary built on physics mathematics geology astronomy and others. Its roots go back historically but blossomed with advances in measuring Earth's properties and processes last century. Technological advances in lab field instrumentation computing satellite remote sensing drove growth. Plate tectonics mantle convection acceptance enabled understanding of earthquakes volcanoes mountain building all geology at fundamental level. Planetary exploration beginning Apollo missions invigorated geophysics extended its purview beyond Earth. Today, geophysics involves thousands of scientists worldwide identified as great unifying endeavor. Success keys are individual volume editors and contributing authors distinguished group of geophysicists assembled." Ключевые слова: e, r, o