12.201 | Fall 2004 | Undergraduate

Essentials of Geophysics

Lecture Notes

ch2.pdf

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This file contains the following topics: Global gravity, potentials, figure of the earth, geoid, gravitational potential due to nearly spherical body, the Poisson and Laplace equations, cartesian and spherical coordinate systems, spherical harmonics, global gravity anomalies, gravity anomalies and the reduction of gravity data, correlation between gravity anomalies and topography, and flexure and gravity.

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Fall 2004
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