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Geophysics

Geofísica

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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Geophysics
Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics organizations use a broader definition that includes the water cycle including snow and ice; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial relations; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets.
Geophysics
Historically geophysics has been the study of the classical linear equations of physics, Laplace's equation for gravity and magnetics, the wave equation for propagating seismic waves, and the heat equation for thermal problems.
Christopher C. Barton; Paul R. La Pointe (28 February 1995). Fractals in the Earth Sciences. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-306-44865-2. 
Under the auspices of an EU-funded project, researchers are working on ways to dispose of nuclear waste underground and seal it off with specialised plugs. If the project succeeds, the first permanent geological repositories could be operating in Europe by 2025.
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