[内容简介]
《地球科学前沿:从地震到全球变暖(英文版)》主要讲述地球科学领域的最新进展及最新研究，包含了诸多青年研究学者在其前沿研究领域的受邀及推荐文章，但这些文章主要面向一般科技读者。
该书介绍了像卫星遥感、超级计算机模拟这些强大的方法是怎样深刻改变地球科学的研究的：地球系统跟大气层、海洋、固态地球是怎样逐渐被视为一个整体的；以及地球科学研究的社会影响是如何变得前所未有的重要的。
对于初入门或正想进入这些研究领域的青年学者来说，《地球科学前沿:从地震到全球变暖(英文版)》不仅可以丰富他们的专业知识、扩展他们的视野，更可以为他们选择适合于自己兴趣的研究方向提供帮助、而对于大学生和那些对这些领域的知识和发展方向有兴趣的一般读者来说，阅读这些书，既可以增进他们的科学知识，也可以助其了解这些领域的发展方向。
[目次]
Foreword
Preface
Cosmology and the Big Bang
1.Thirteen Billion Years in Half an Hour
Bruce A. Bassett
2.The Paradigm of Inflation
3.Cosmology with Varying Constants
4.Small Scales, Big Issues for Cold Dark Matter
5.Violence and Black Holes in the Hearts of Galaxies
Probing the Universe
6.First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Results: Implications for Cosmology and Inflation
7.Quest for Gravitational Waves
8.Strong-Field Tests of Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars
9.Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes
Some Remarks on the Time Scales of Magmatic
Processes Occurring Beneath Island Arc Volcanoes
The Break-Up of Continents and the Generation of Ocean Basins
Properties and Evolution of the Earth's Core and Geodynamo
Section 3: APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE
Giant Catastrophic Landslides
Remote Monitoring of the Earthquake Cycle
using Satellite Radar Interferometry
Human Influence on the Global Geochemical Cycle of Lead
Dominik J. Weiss, Malin E. Kylander and Matthew
Natural and Artificial Platinum and Palladium Occurrences World-Wide
Data Assimilation and Objectively Optimised Earth Observation
David J. Lary and Anuradha Koratkar
Afterword
Bill McGuire
Index