When Worlds Quake: The Quest to Understand the Interior of Earth and Beyond - Hardcover

A seismologist's guide to planetary interiors, written for general readers. What's inside the Earth, Mars, and other worlds, and how we know.

We can't drill to the center of the Earth. We can't land on Jupiter's core. But seismologists have figured out what's there by studying how earthquake waves travel through planets. This book explains the method and the discoveries: Earth's liquid outer core, the solid iron center, the layers that make our planet unique.

Geology and earth science faculty assign this when teaching planetary science. It's also read by people curious about how we know what we know about planets we can't visit. The author is a working seismologist, so it's grounded in real practice, not abstract theory.

DETAILS
- Hardcover
- Seismology, geology, planetary science, earth science