Our Concept Of The Earth What We Know About Our Planet And How It Was Discovered 1st Edition Lapo Boschi by Lapo Boschi 9783031715785, 3031715780 instant download after payment.

There are a few things you need to know before you decide whether to read this book. I don’t think you’d be able to figure them out from just looking at the title and/or the table of contents, or quickly scanning the chapters, so here is this preface. I’ll keep it as short as I can.
First of all, Our Concept of the Earth is a geophysics book. “Geophysics” means a lot of things, but basically this book is about the so-called “solid earth”: no climate, atmosphere, oceans, really—important topics, but not what this book is about. When I say solid earth I mean the planet—our planet—as a whole: its “global” structure, from the surface of the continents down to the so-called “inner core”. No “applied” geophysics, either: I am not going to teach you how to find oil or other valuable underground stuff: although some of the material you’ll learn here might help you
to do that, too. And very little seismology, actually: or, I should say, a lot of seismic waves—which some geophysicists “use” to make x-ray-type scans of the interior of the planet—but very little about earthquakes per se.