Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Physical Geography
Great Systems and Global Environments
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The physical geography of Earth is explained through the systems that shape the planet's lands, waters, and atmosphere. Written in an easy narrative style, each chapter combines text with more than 40 single-concept illustrations. The result is a distinctive design that weaves words and illustrations...
by Gerald Schubert, Donald Turcotte
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Essential reading for any Earth scientist, this classic textbook has been providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the fundamentals needed to develop a quantitative understanding of the physical processes of the solid earth for over thirty years. This third edition has two completely...
by William Lowrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The advent of accessible student computing packages has meant that geophysics students can now easily manipulate datasets and gain first-hand modeling experience – essential in developing an intuitive understanding of the physics of the Earth. Yet to gain a more in-depth understanding of physical...
A Wilder Time
Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book
Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of the Year" selection
"A richly literary account. . . . Anchored by deep reflection and scientific knowledge, A Wilder Time is a portrait of an ancient, nearly untrammeled world...
Physics of Lakes
Volume 1: Foundation of the Mathematical and Physical Background
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
This first volume in the treatise on the Physics of Lakes deals with the formulation of the mathematical and physical background. A large number of lakes on Earth are described, presenting their morphology as well as the causes of their response to the driving environment. Because the physics of lakes...
by Alan P. Dickin
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The third edition of Radiogenic Isotope Geology examines revolutionary changes in geochemical thinking that have occurred over the past fifteen years. Extinct-nuclide studies on meteorites have called into question fundamental geochemical models of the Earth, while new dating methods have challenged...
Flood By Design
Receding Water Shapes the Earth's Surface
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
There are features on the earth's surface that science cannot explain with theories of changes over millions or even billions of years by the geographic processes that we see occurring commonly today. However, when you explore the evidence from a biblical worldview, the geological features marking...
Gaia’s Body
Toward a Physiology of Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
If the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have something like a physiology. It must have systems and processes that perform living functions. In Gaia's Body, Tyler Volk describes the environment that enables the biosphere to exist, various ways of looking at its "anatomy"...
by Arshad Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2016
8th grade geography multiple choice questions has 220 MCQs. Grade 8 geography quiz questions and answers pdf, MCQs on earthquake zones, volcanoes, acid lava, continental plates, crustal plates, earth internal structure, world geography MCQs with answers, earthquakes, faulting process, fold mountain...
by Bruno Zolesi, Ljiljana R. Cander
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This book describes how to predict and forecast the state of planet Earth’s ionosphere under quiet and disturbed conditions in terms of dynamical processes in the weakly ionized plasma media of the upper atmosphere and their relation to available modern measurements and modelling techniques. It...
Tomography of the Earth’s Crust: From Geophysical Sounding to Real-Time Monitoring
GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 21
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The research work on the topic of ‘‘Tomography of the Earth’s Crust: From Geophysical Sounding to Real-Time Monitoring’’ has focused on the development of cross-scale multiparameter methods and their technological application together with the development of innovative field techniques....
by Bill McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. In this Very Short Introduction, Bill McGuire explores the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival. From the likely...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The changing focus and approach of geomorphic research suggests that the time is opportune for a summary of the state of discipline.
The number of peer-reviewed papers published in geomorphic journals has grown steadily for more than two decades and, more importantly, the diversity of authors...
Carbonate Reservoirs
Porosity and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The 2nd Edition of Carbonate Reservoirs aims to educate graduate students and industry professionals on the complexities of porosity evolution in carbonate reservoirs. In the intervening 12 years since the first edition, there have been numerous studies of value published that need to be recognized...