Appendix

The appendix contains geological time tables for the Phanerozoic and Precambrian, a periodic table of the chemical elements, the base units of the SI system and conversion factors of other units into the SI system, current values of some physical natural constants, dimensions and characteristics of the Earth, mechanical and thermal properties of the Earth as a function of radius resp. of depth, notes on the representation and naming of large and small numerical values, computational rules for vectors, tensors, and the error function, an introduction to the Legendre transformation, the EMS-98 seismic intensity scale, formulas for the response function of a seismometer, an explanation of the magnetic α-effect, and basic equations of hydrodynamics and hydrothermics.