The Earth's Variable Rotation: Geophysical Causes and Consequences (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics)

By Kurt Lambeck

Book Overview

Astronomers have long noted that the Earth does not rotate uniformly about an axis fixed in the planet, that both the length-of-day and the direction of the rotation axis vary periodically and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521227690
• ISBN13: 9780521227698
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.4"