Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Clive Agnew, Philip Woodhouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change.
Water Resources and Development...
Ecosystem Geography
From Ecoregions to Sites
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
This book outlines a system that subdivides the Earth into a hierarchy of increasingly finer-scale ecosystems that can serve as a consistent framework for ecological analysis and management. The system consists of a three-part, nested hierarchy of ecosystem units and associated mapping criteria. This...
Multiple-point Geostatistics
Stochastic Modeling with Training Images
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to multiple-point geostatistics, where spatial continuity is described using training images. Multiple-point geostatistics aims at bridging the gap between physical modelling/realism and spatio-temporal stochastic modelling. The book provides an overview...
by V. V. Beloussov
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Geotectonics has a special place among the geological dis ciplines. In addition to ideas based on firmly established facts that constitute lasting scientific values, geotectonics, as a generalizing branch of geology, embraces broad con structions that link the planet's deep interior with its sur...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In May of 1991, Victor Van Buren, who was then with Springer Verlag in New York City, asked us for timely topics in the earth sciences that would be appropriate for publication as a book. We all quickly agreed that recent interest and research activity on the role of organic acids in geological...
Birds of Stone
Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the world began...
On Foundations of Seismology
Bringing Idealizations Down to Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational and conceptual issues in seismology. Their aim is to present mathematical, physical and philosophical topics in a clear and concise manner. They provide an extensive philosophical discussion...
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?
More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
"Informative and engagingly idiosyncratic . . . brings the subject down to earth with offbeat, everyday examples and easy-to-follow experiments. . . . Both professionals and laymen can learn from this book."—The New York Times Book Review
"A brilliant collection of intriguing examples...
What Really Causes Global Warming?
Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Science Is Never “Settled” Thousands of scientists are convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that recent global warming is being caused by emissions of greenhouse gases and that we must act immediately to reduce these emissions or else we may render Earth unlivable for our children and our grandchildren....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Over the past 20 years, synchrotron-based research applications have provided important insight into the geochemical cycling of ions and the chemical and crystallographic properties of minerals in soils and sediments. Of particular significance is the understanding of local coordination environments...
Global Positioning System: An Overview
Symposium No. 102 Edinburgh, Scotland, August 7–8, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Space geodesy has evolved in the last twenty years into one of the most exciting disciplines in the earth sciences. This development is due to a large extent to the versatility of applications provided by the radio interferometric technique called Global Positioning System or GPS. Appropriately, Symposium...
by A. Nicolas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Physicists attempt to reduce natural phenomena to their essential dimensions by means of simplification and approximation and to account for them by defining natural laws. Paradoxically, whilst there is a critical need in geology to reduce the overwhelming field information to its essentials, it often...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Water Resources and Water Use Sectors
Case studies from Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Climate change on earth is having significant impacts on water resources management in Southeast Asia. Knowledge of climate variations and climate change can be valuable for water resources management in agriculture, urban and industrial water supplies, hydroelectric power generation, and ecosystem...
Climate Change
The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text introduces the basic science underlying both the natural progress of climate change and the effect of human activity on the deteriorating health...