Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Petit Traité de l'espace
Un parcours pluridisciplinaire
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Une approche pluridisciplinaire des représentations de l'espace.Tout être vivant inscrit son activité dans l’espace. Environnements proches accessibles à notre vue, environnements lointains, villes, continents… Nous explorons l’espace en le traversant, mais aussi en écoutant les descriptions...
Basement Tectonics 13
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Confenrence on Basement Tectonics, held in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A., June 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Thirteenth International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia from June 2 -6, 1997. The oral presentations and discussions over three days covered a wide range of topics, and provided the international...
by Branimir Jovančićević, Jan Schwarzbauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This second volume in the series 'Fundamentals in Organic Geochemistry' focusses on molecular chemical aspects introducing the structural diversity of natural products, their fate in the sedimentary systems and the consequences of the corresponding alterations for geoscientific questions. Organic...
by Jose Armando Boninsegna, Barrie Bonsal, Darrell Corkal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area,...
Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action
Complexities of Climate and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Environmental issues, vast and varied in their details, unfold at the confluence of people and place. They present complexities in their biophysical details, their scope and scale, and the dynamic character of human action and natural systems. Addressing environmental issues often invokes tensions...
Oceanic and Anthropogenic Controls of Life in the Pacific Ocean
Proceedings of the 2nd Pacific Symposium on Marine Sciences, Nadhodka, Russia, August 11–19, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume presents a collection of original, multidisciplinary papers written by leading scientists from the various countries of the Pacific rim. The major topics covered are the origins of life in the marine environment; the changing distribution of biological parameters; hydrophysical and hydrochemical...
by Chih-Pei Chang, Michael Ghil, Mojib Latif;John M Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book focuses on two major challenges in the climate sciences: 1) to describe the decadal-to-centennial variations in instrumental and proxy records; and 2) to distinguish between anthropogenic variations and natural variability. The National Taiwan University invited some of the world's leading...
by Rucong Yu, Tianjun Zhou, Tongwen Wu
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This book is based on the project “Development and Validation of High Resolution Climate System Models” with the support of the National Key Basic Research Project under grant No. 2010CB951900. It demonstrates the major advances in the development of new, dynamical Atmospheric General Circulation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans is a comprehensive account of the basic concepts, theories, methods and applications used in ocean satellite remote sensing. The book provides a synthesis of various new ideas and theories and discusses a series of key research topics in oceanic manifestation...
Spatial Modeling in Natural Sciences and Engineering
Software Development and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
The author introduces the reader to the creation and implementation of space-related models by applying a learning-by-doing and problem-oriented approach. The required procedural skills are rarely taught at universities and many scientists and engineers struggle to transfer a model into a computer...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This work takes a critical look at the current concept of isotopic landscapes ("isoscapes") in bioarchaeology and its application in future research. It specifically addresses the research potential of cremated finds, a somewhat neglected bioarchaeological substrate, resulting primarily...
The Adapted Mind
Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1995
Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact...
Impact of Natural Hazards on Oil and Gas Extraction
The South Caspian Basin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union almost a decade ago, there has been rapid evolution of interactions between the Western nations and individual countries of the former Soviet Union. As part of that interaction, the autonomous independent Republic of Azerbaijan through its scientific arm,...
Panbiogeography
Tracking the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Biogeography is a diverse subject, traditionally focusing on the distribution of plants and animals at different taxonomic levels, past and present. Modern biogeography also puts emphasis on the ecological character of the world vegetation types, and on the evolving relationship between humans and...