Global gravity and the geodynamic model of the earth
Abstract
Plate tectonic hypotheses require the formation of a new oceanic lithosphere at midoceanic ridges and imply the further modification and continued evolution towards the continental type of lithosphere in the regions of island arcs and orogenic belts. All these phenomena observed on the earth's surface are results of all geodynamic processes passing through the earth's interior. Since geodynamic processes change through the geological epochs, the gravity field also changes during the same geological periods. Thus, the paper is concerned with physical relationships between the global gravity field and the geodynamic processes as well as all geophysical fields affected by the geodynamic processes inside the earth. The aim of this paper is to analyze the inner and outer gravity field of the earth during the evolution of the earth in the course of the geological epochs, and to build the generalized theory of the global gravity field of the earth from the point of view of the global and local geodynamic processes taking place within the earth's interior.
- Publication:
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Gerlands Beitraege zur Geophysik
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988GBzG...97..495N
- Keywords:
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- Earth Gravitation;
- Geodynamics;
- Plates (Tectonics);
- Gravitational Fields;
- Mathematical Models;
- Planetary Evolution