Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Chronological List of Papers with References to the Volumes in which they are or probably will be contained
- Erratum in Vol. I
- TIDAL FRICTION AND COSMOGONY
- 1 On the Bodily Tides of Viscous and Semi-elastic Spheroids, and on the Ocean Tides upon a Yielding Nucleus
- 2 Note on Thomson's Theory of the Tides of an Elastic Sphere
- 3 On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid, and on the Remote History of the Earth
- 4 Problems connected with the Tides of a Viscous Spheroid
- 5 The Determination of the Secular Effects of Tidal Friction by a Graphical Method
- 6 On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite revolving about a Tidally Distorted Planet
- 7 On the Analytical Expressions which give the History of a Fluid Planet of Small Viscosity, attended by a Single Satellite
- 8 On the Tidal Friction of a Planet attended by Several Satellites, and on the Evolution of the Solar System
- 9 On the Stresses caused in the Interior of the Earth by the Weight of Continents and Mountains
- INDEX
9 - On the Stresses caused in the Interior of the Earth by the Weight of Continents and Mountains
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Chronological List of Papers with References to the Volumes in which they are or probably will be contained
- Erratum in Vol. I
- TIDAL FRICTION AND COSMOGONY
- 1 On the Bodily Tides of Viscous and Semi-elastic Spheroids, and on the Ocean Tides upon a Yielding Nucleus
- 2 Note on Thomson's Theory of the Tides of an Elastic Sphere
- 3 On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid, and on the Remote History of the Earth
- 4 Problems connected with the Tides of a Viscous Spheroid
- 5 The Determination of the Secular Effects of Tidal Friction by a Graphical Method
- 6 On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite revolving about a Tidally Distorted Planet
- 7 On the Analytical Expressions which give the History of a Fluid Planet of Small Viscosity, attended by a Single Satellite
- 8 On the Tidal Friction of a Planet attended by Several Satellites, and on the Evolution of the Solar System
- 9 On the Stresses caused in the Interior of the Earth by the Weight of Continents and Mountains
- INDEX
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- The Scientific Papers of Sir George DarwinTidal Friction and Cosmogony, pp. 459 - 514Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1908