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Geophysics

  Geophysics: Introduction: A branch of natural science called geophysics uses quantitative tools to analyze the physical processes and characteristics of the Earth and the space environment around it. The term "geophysics" is sometimes used exclusively to describe phenomena related to the solid earth, such as the shape of the planet, its gravitational and magnetic fields, its internal structure, its composition, its dynamics, and how these phenomena manifest on the surface through plate tectonics, magma generation, volcanism, and rock formation. Modern geophysics organizations and pure scientists, on the other hand, use a broader definition that takes into account analogous issues related to the Moon and other planets as well as 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 physics.   Geophysics Although geophysics didn't become a distinct fiel...