Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Earthquakes
The Sound of Multi-modal Waves
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book is an introduction to wave dynamics as they apply to earthquakes, among the scariest, most unpredictable, and deadliest natural phenomena on Earth. Since studying seismic activity is essentially a study of wave dynamics, this text starts with a discussion of types and representations, including...
The Cluster Active Archive
Studying the Earth's Space Plasma Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Since the year 2000 the ESA Cluster mission has been investigating the small-scale structures and processes of the Earth's plasma environment, such as those involved in the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetospheric plasma, in global magnetotail dynamics, in cross-tail currents, and...
Optical Remote Sensing of Land Surface
Techniques and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The considerable progress in instrumentation and in the development of methods for the processing and analysis of data places remote sensing at the center of various international programs for the surveillance and tracking of climatic and anthropogenic changes and effects on the environment. This...
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes
How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Newly discovered scientific proof validating the legends and myths of ancient floods, fires, and weather extremes
• Presents new scientific evidence revealing the cause of the end of the last ice age and the cycles of geological events and species extinctions that followed
• Connects...
by Peter Molnar
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept gradually became part of geology's basic principles. We now know that the Earth's crust and upper mantle consist...
Absolute Age Determination
Physical and Chemical Dating Methods and Their Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages. A rela tive geochronology...
by M. S. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This monograph deals with the part of the field of ex-' perimental rock deformation that is dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another. Thus a distinction has been drawn between the fields of brittle und ductile behaviour in rock, corresponding more or less to a distinction...
by Jean-Pierre Cuif, Yannicke Dauphin, James E. Sorauf
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Fossils are essential to the reconstruction of the evolution of life and episodes in Earth history. Knowledge of biomineralization - the processes associated with the formation of mineralized biological structures - is essential to properly evaluate data derived from fossils. This book emphasizes...
by Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Solar System Astrophysics
Background Science and the Inner Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The second edition of Solar System Astrophysics: Background Science and the Inner Solar System provides new insights into the burgeoning field of planetary astronomy. As in the first edition, this volume begins with a rigorous treatment of coordinate frames, basic positional astronomy, and the celestial...
Rainforest
Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity—but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world...
Downdrift
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Narrated by an Archaeon, a 3.8 billion year old species, the oldest on earth, Downdrift is a work of speculative eco-fiction that describes the impact of ecological pressures on animals that are adopting human behaviors, with droll and sometimes alarming, results. The book follows a year of changes...
by J. John Lowe, Michael J.C Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical...
Geology By Design
Interpreting Rocks and Their Catastrophic Record
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Presents and authoritative and biblical geological time-line for high school students and adults.
Includes substantial illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive reference section.
Clearly explains how data from volcanic deposits, seismic activity in Earth history, and even the presence of ripple marks...