Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Boris M. Smirnov
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book investigates elementary processes in the Earth’s atmosphere involving photons, electrons, ions, radicals, and aerosols. It is based on global atmospheric models such as the standard atmospheric model with averaged atmospheric parameters across the globe and over time, the Earth’s...
Earth’s Rotation from Eons to Days
Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of the University of Bielefeld, FRG. September 26–30, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Earth's Rotation from Eons to Days reviews long-term changes, methods of measurement, and the major influences on rotation parameters. In order to understand secular changes, the momentary behavior of ocean tides must be analyzed and appropriately modelled. Researchers and students in astronomy and...
by Dapeng Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book on multiscale seismic tomography, written by one of the leaders in the field, is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals in Earth and planetary sciences who need to broaden their horizons about seismotectonics, volcanism, and interior structure and...
IGFS 2014
Proceedings of the 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS), Shanghai, China, June 30 - July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This volume contains the proceedings of 24 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) General Assembly, which was organized by the International Gravity Field Service (IGFS), Commission 2 of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and Shanghai Astronomical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
What affects the oceans affects terra firma. Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions gathers the insights of more than 50 ocean and coastal science researchers exploring ocean components and their relationships, patterns, and trends over time and space. The book's 16 chapters feature geographic information...
Advances in Geophysics
Seismological Structure of Slabs
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1994
This monograph provides an overview of the progress made in illuminating the properties of deep slabs and the surrounding mantle, since the introduction of the plate tectonics model to the earth sciences 25 years ago. The thermal and chemical characteristics of the subducted lithosphere are determined...
Fjords
Processes and Products
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Fjords are both an interface and a buffer between glaciated continents and the oceans. They exhibit a very wide range in environmental conditions, both in dynamics and geography. Some are truly wonders of the world with their dizzying mountain slopes rising sharply from the ocean edge. Others represent...
Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes
3rd International Scientific School for Young Scientists, Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This book is the result of collaboration within the framework of the Third International Scientific School for Young Scientists held at the Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017, November.
The papers included describe studies on the dynamics of...
Innovative Strategies and Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The changes the earth is currently undertaking has been at the forefront of scientific discourse in recent years. Humans as a species have needed to react to these changes and shift their behavior accordingly. Innovative Strategies and Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation: Emerging Research and...
Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes
50 Years of Earth-Shaking Events
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
The theory of plate tectonics transformed earth science. The hypothesis that the earth’s outermost layers consist of mostly rigid plates that move over an inner surface helped describe the growth of new seafloor, confirm continental drift, and explain why earthquakes and volcanoes occur in some...
by Greg Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The very survival of the planet is at risk: human misuse of natural resources and disturbance of natural environmental systems is pushing the Earth to the limits of its capacity.
The Environment is a lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions,...
Saving America's Beaches
The Causes of and Solutions to Beach Erosion
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
This book tells you where beach sand comes from, how waves are formed and how they break and move sand down the coast, how “works of man” have blocked this movement and caused beach erosion, and what can be done to save the beaches for future generations of Americans. A three-part prescription...
by Pierre Cotillon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Stratigraphy defines the basis, concepts and methods of one of the oldest disciplines of Earth Sciences. Stratigraphy is a primary tool in dynamical and historical reconstructions in paleogeography, paleontology, tectonics, sedimentology as well as mineral prospecting. The first three chapters are...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The purpose of this book is to analyse and discuss a series of topics related with environmental conservation, land-use planning and management and impact prevention as seen from the perspective of the Earth Sciences, but with an inte- grated, interdisciplinary approach. The contributions included...