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Foreword
Preface
Cosmology and the Big Bang
1.Thirteen Billion Years in Half an Hour
Bruce A. Bassett
2.The Paradigm of Inflation
3.Cosmology with Varying Constants
4.Small Scales, Big Issues for Cold Dark Matter
5.Violence and Black Holes in the Hearts of Galaxies
Probing the Universe
6.First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Results: Implications for Cosmology and Inflation
7.Quest for Gravitational Waves
8.Strong-Field Tests of Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars
9.Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes
Some Remarks on the Time Scales of Magmatic
Processes Occurring Beneath Island Arc Volcanoes
The Break-Up of Continents and the Generation of Ocean Basins
Properties and Evolution of the Earth's Core and Geodynamo
Section 3: APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE
Giant Catastrophic Landslides
Remote Monitoring of the Earthquake Cycle
using Satellite Radar Interferometry
Human Influence on the Global Geochemical Cycle of Lead
Dominik J. Weiss, Malin E. Kylander and Matthew
Natural and Artificial Platinum and Palladium Occurrences World-Wide
Data Assimilation and Objectively Optimised Earth Observation
David J. Lary and Anuradha Koratkar
Afterword
Bill McGuire
Index