SOME
PROBLEMS OF GEODYNAMICS
A.EH IOVE
BEING AN ESSAY TO WHICH
THE ADAMS PRIZE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
WAS ADJUDGED IN 1911
The book opens with an exposition of the problem of stress in the earth due to the irregular distribution of mass, and continues with a detailed study of tides in the earth (including a historical summary of previous work in the field), motion in the earth's mass, vibrations of the ear