The Lithosphere

Irina Artemieva is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She was awarded an M.S. in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow and a Dr Science (Dr habil.) degree from the University of Copenhagen. Professor Artemieva has worked as a researcher at the Russian/USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, at the Universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Strasbourg (France), and at the United States Geological Survey in California. She was Science Co-ordinator of the European Science Foundation/International Lithosphere Program EUROPROBE study 1999–2001. She is also a member of the Natural Sciences Research Councils in Ireland and Sweden, and the Academia Europaea, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London.

'Irina Artemieva provides a broad-reaching and detailed description of the lithosphere, and the different disciplines required to fully understand it, from seismology to petrology. She explains the mysteries of geochemistry to geophysicists and the complexity and rigor of the geophysical approach to Earth scientists in general, making this book of immense value to all geologists.' Nicholas Arndt, Université Joseph Fourier

• Foreword; Preface; 1. What is the lithosphere?; 2. Age of the lithosphere; 3. Seismic structure of the lithosphere; 4. Thermal regime of the lithosphere from heat flow data; 5. Thermal state of the lithosphere from non-thermal data; 6. CBL and lithospheric density from petrologic and geophysical data; 7. Electrical structure of the lithosphere; 8. Flexure and rheology; 9. Evolution of the lithosphere; 10. Summary of lithospheric properties; References; Index.