From the Earth's Core to Outer Space

✍ Scribed by Ilmari Haapala, Tuija Pulkkinen (auth.), Ilmari Haapala (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 137
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From the Earth's Core to Outer Space focuses on four themes: (1) Evolving Earth’s crust, (2) Changing Baltic Sea, (3) Climate Change, and (4) Planet Earth, third stone from Sun. The focus on these four topics provides both a state of the art review of earth science topics of particular importance to Scandinavia and the Baltic and also the global context in which a consideration of these topics must be made. It finishes by discussing our use of space born technologies for understanding these topics and places the Earth within the context of our neighbouring planets and their satellites.

The first theme includes papers on the structure, origin and evolution of the Earth’s crust and in particular the ore deposits in Fennoscandia, plate-tectonic drift of Fennoscandia (Baltica), and postglacial isostatic rebound of the crust. The second theme contains papers dealing with changes in the ice season of the Baltic Sea, inflow and stagnation in deep basins, biology of the Baltic Sea, and carbon dioxide balance in sea water. The third theme deals with origin and evolution of oxygen in atmosphere, postglacial climate change, effects of aerosols and greenhouse gases on climate, interplay between anthropogenic and natural factors in the current climate change, and Earth’s water resources. The fourth theme includes articles on Earth’s space environment, use of satellites in cartography and geodesy, information obtained by space probes on Mars and other planets and their moons, and possibilities to find life on them.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 9-10
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-10
Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Assemblages of Continents: Paleomagnetic Evidence for Near Equatorial Supercontinents....Pages 11-35
Seismic Structure of Earth’s Crust in Finland....Pages 37-46
Evolution of the Bedrock of Finland: An Overview....Pages 47-59
Craton Mantle Formation and Structure of Eastern Finland Mantle: Evidence from Kimberlite-Derived Mantle Xenoliths, Xenocrysts and Diamonds....Pages 61-80
Metallic Mineral Resources in Finland and Fennoscandia: A Major European Raw-Materials Source for the Future....Pages 81-101
Isotopic Microanalysis: In Situ Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of the Finnish Precambrian....Pages 103-126
Fennoscandian Land Uplift: Past, Present and Future....Pages 127-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-138
Ice Season in the Baltic Sea and Its Climatic Variability....Pages 139-149
Baltic Sea Water Exchange and Oxygen Balance....Pages 151-161
Marine Carbon Dioxide....Pages 163-170
Impact of Climate Change on Biology of the Baltic Sea....Pages 171-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-186
Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere....Pages 187-197
Late Quaternary Climate History of Northern Europe....Pages 199-218
Aerosols and Climate Change....Pages 219-226
Enhanced Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change in Northern Europe....Pages 227-239
Will There Be Enough Water?....Pages 241-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-256
Trends in Space Weather Since the Nineteenth Century....Pages 257-264
Space Weather: From Solar Storms to the Technical Challenges of the Space Age....Pages 265-278
Space Geodesy: Observing Global Changes....Pages 279-293
Front Matter....Pages 255-256
Destination Mars....Pages 295-308
In Search of a Living Planet....Pages 309-327
Back Matter....Pages 329-340

✦ Subjects

Earth System Sciences; Climatology; Physical Geography