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Magnetism, Planetary Rotation, and Convection in the Solar System: Retrospect and Prospect

In Honour of Prof. S.K. Runcorn

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On the 6th, 7th' and 8th April 1983, a conference entitled "Magnetism, planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System" was held in the School of Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The purpose of the meeting was to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof. Stanley Keith Runcorn and his, and his students' and associates', several decades of scientific achievement. The social programme, which consisted of excursions in Northumberland and Durham with visits to ancient castles and churches, to Hexham Abbey and Durham Cathedral, and dinners in Newcastle and Durham, was greatly enjoyed by those attending the meeting and by their guests. The success ofthe scientific programme can be judged by this special edition of Geophysical Surveys which is derived mainly from the papers given at the meeting. The story starts in the late 1940s when the question of the origin of the magnetic field of the Earth and such other heavenly bodies as had at that time been discovered as having a magnetic field, was exercising the minds of several scientists; notably P. M. S. Blackett at Manchester, W. M. Elsasser at the University of Pennsylvania and E. C. Bullard at Cambridge. Two alternative mechanisms were proposed. In one the magnetic field was in some way connected with the distributed angular momentum of a rotating body; in the other, electric currents in conducting parts within the body were proposed as the source of magnetic field.

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Paleomagnetism of Gabbros of the Early Proterozoic Blachford Lake Intrusive Suite and the Easter Island Dyke, Great Slave Lake, NWT: Possible Evidence for the Earliest Continental Drift

    • E. Irving, A. Davidson, J. C. McGlynn
    Pages 1-25

  3. A Systematic Approach to Radiometric and Paleomagnetic Studies in a Mobile Orogenic Belt: I. The Waning Phase of Activity in the Southern Appalachians of South Carolina

    • Robert E. Dooley, M. Manzoni, A. E. M. Nairn
    Pages 27-54

  4. S. K. Runcorn’s Commentary

    • W. O’Reilly
    Pages 55-56

  5. Past and Present Magnetism of the Moon

    • D. W. Collinson
    Pages 57-73

  6. On the Grain Size Dependence of the Behavicur of Fine Magnetic Particles in Rocks

    • M. Fuller
    Pages 75-87

  7. S. K. Runcorn’s Commentary

    • W. O’Reilly
    Pages 89-90

  8. The Geomagnetic Dynamo — Elementary Energetics and Thermodynamics

    • F. J. Lowes
    Pages 91-105

  9. The Contribution of Laboratory Dynamo Experiments to Our Understanding of the Mechanism of Generation of Planetary Magnetic Fields

    • I. Wilkinson
    Pages 107-122

  10. S. K. Runcorn’s Commentary

    • W. O’Reilly
    Pages 123-124

  11. Review of Lake Sediment Palaeomagnetic Data (Part I)

    • K. M. Creer
    Pages 125-160

  12. S. K. Runcorn’s Commentary

    • W. O’Reilly
    Pages 161-161

  13. On the Excitation of Short-Term Variations in the Length of the Day and Polar Motion

    • Raymond Hide
    Pages 163-167

  14. S. K. Runcorn’s Commentary

    • W. O’Reilly
    Pages 168-168

  15. Planetary Rotation and Invertebrate Skeletal Patterns: Prospects for Extant Taxa

    • W. William Hughes
    Pages 169-183

  16. Growth Rhythms, Evolution of the Earth’s Interior, and Origin of the Metazoa

    • Gary D. Rosenberg
    Pages 185-199

  17. S. K. Runcorn’s Commentary

    • W. O’Reilly
    Pages 200-200

  18. Non-Tidal Changes in the Length of the Day: 700 BC to AD 1982

    • F. R. Stephenson, L. V. Morrison
    Pages 201-210

  19. S. K. Runcorn’s Commentary

    • W. O’Reilly
    Pages 211-212

  20. Heat Transfer and Planetary Evolution

    • D. C. Tozer
    Pages 213-246
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

    W. O’Reilly

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Magnetism, Planetary Rotation, and Convection in the Solar System: Retrospect and Prospect

  • Book Subtitle: In Honour of Prof. S.K. Runcorn

  • Editors: W. O’Reilly

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5404-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2050-4Due: 30 September 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8886-2Published: 09 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5404-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 280

  • Topics: Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Earth Sciences, general, Geophysics/Geodesy, Planetology

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