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Science 3 July 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4503, pp. 76 - 82
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4503.76
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A Decade of Progress in Earth's Internal Properties and Processes

Orson L. Anderson 1

1 Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and is a professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90024

A major component of the Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics Project, labeled "Internal Properties and Processes," included certain experimental and theoretical research in tectonophysics, seismology, geochemistry, petrology, volcanology, and planetology. This review focuses on a few research areas in which there have been surprises and reversals. In particular, attention is given to the attempts to quantify the thermal profile in the earth's interior and the material properties of the earth's interior.


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