Geophysics category: 630 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In September 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), prohibiting nuclear explosions worldwide, in all environments. The treaty calls for a global verification system, including a network of 321 monitoring stations distributed around the globe,...
Coding and Decoding: Seismic Data
The Concept of Multishooting
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Coding and Decoding Seismic Data: The Concept of Multishooting, Volume One, Second Edition, offers a thorough investigation of modern techniques for collecting, simulating, and processing multishooting data. Currently, the acquisition of seismic surveys is performed as a sequential operation in which...
Electronic Distance Measurement
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book has evolved from the author's continuing teaching of the subject and from two editions of a text of the same title. The first edition was published in 1978 by the School of Surveying, Universi ty of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Like its predecessors, this totally revised third edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 192.
Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments is the first volume on this important and fascinating subject. With its underlying theme of bridging existing knowledge to future research, it is a...
Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East
A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
This book examines historical evidence from the last 2000 years to analyse earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Early chapters review techniques of historical seismology, while the main body of the book comprises a catalogue of more than 4000 earthquakes identified from historical...
Tectonomagnetics and Local Geomagnetic Field Variations
Proceedings of IAGA/IAMAP Joint Assembly August 1977, Seattle, Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Physical and chemical studies of the earth and planets along with their sur roundings are now developing very rapidly. As these studies are of essentially international character, many international conferences, symposia, seminars and workshops are held every year. To publish proceedings of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 179.
This multidisciplinary monograph provides the first modern integrative summary focused on the most spectacular active tectonic systems in North America.
Encompassing seismology, tectonics,...
The Global Paleomagnetic Database
Design, Installation and Use with ORACLE
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Document Syntax Xl I. DATABASE DESIGN 1. Relational Databases 317 2. Choice of Database Management System 318 3. Design of the Global Paleomagnetic Database 319 3. 1. ORACLE Design 319 3. 2. Compact Database - ABASE 321 4. Aspects of Data Entry 326 II. ORACLE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE 1. Sytem Hardware...
Navigating Graduate School and Beyond
A Career Guide for Graduate Students and a Must Read for Every Advisor
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
Graduate school can be an exciting, challenging time for students, but it can be scary and intimidating at the same time. Navigating Graduate School and Beyond: A Career Guide for Graduate Students and a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In the wake of the disastrous tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea in 1998, this volume presents 20 state-of-the-art contributions on landslide tsunamis, including earthquake characteristics and ground motions, modeling of landslides in geotechnical engineering, field surveys on land and at sea,...
The Shape and Size of the Earth
A Historical Journey from Homer to Artificial Satellites
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period. The origins of the notion of the sphericity of the Earth are explained, dating back...
Viscoelastic Interfaces Driven in Disordered Media
Applications to Friction
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This book offers an in-depth study of two well-known models of “avalanche” dynamics, modified minimally by the inclusion of relaxation. Many complex systems respond to continuous inputs of energy by accumulation of stress over time, interrupted by sudden energy releases called avalanches. The...
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Language: German
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Keine Eruption in historischer Zeit war größer als die des Tambora - und keine hat mehr Neuerungen ausgelöst. Als Folge entstehen Kanalisation, Sozialgesetze und das Fahrrad. Sogar die Kunst wandelt sich unter den Aschewolken dieser Weltkatastrophe Die großen Themen der Zeit sind manchmal kompliziert....
Coastal Zone Management
Global Perspectives, Regional Processes, Local Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Coastal Zone Management: Global Perspectives, Regional Processes, Local Issues brings together a vast range of interdisciplinary data on coastal zones in a concise, yet exhaustive format that will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers. The book contains several focused sections, all of...