Structure, Composition and Evolution of the Earth's Interior – Introduction

Abstract

This Special Issue developed out of two symposia of the 27th General Assembly of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) which was held at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, on 10-21 January 1994. It contains papers from Symposium S4 'Deep Earth Discontinuities: Configuration and Dynamics' convened by F. D. Stacey (Australia), T. Lay (USA) and U. Christensen (Germany) and from the Symposium S5 'Structure and Composition of the Earth's Interior and their Relation to Planetary Evolution' convened by the undersigned. Both symposia were joint with the 'Study of the Earth's Interior' (SEDI), Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). The present papers in this Special Issue are divided into five groups: seismology; geodesy; numerical modeling; mineral physics; and petrophysics. As Guest Editors, we believe this Special Issue is a good example of communication between the individual research communities.

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