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The Global Cryosphere
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
This is the first textbook to address all the components of the Earth's cryosphere – all forms of snow and ice, both terrestrial and marine. It provides a concise but comprehensive summary of snow cover, glaciers, ice sheets, lake and river ice, permafrost, sea ice and icebergs – their past history...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
With remarkable vision, Prof. Otto Hutzinger initiated The Handbook of Envir- mental Chemistry in 1980 and became the founding Editor-in-Chief. At that time, environmental chemistry was an emerging ?eld, aiming at a complete description of the Earth’s environment, encompassing the physical, chemical,...
Advances in Reinforced Soil Structures
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Soil reinforcement is a very useful technique to construct several cost-effective soil structures in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. The most commonly used reinforcement materials are galvanised steel strips, geosynthetics in the form of woven geotextiles, geogrids and geocomposites,...
by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
In Pursuit of Early Mammals presents the history of the mammals that lived during the Mesozoic era, the time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and describes their origins, anatomy, systematics, paleobiology, and distribution. It also tells the story of the author, a world-renowned specialist on these...
Dynamical Paleoclimatology
Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate evolution...
Life's Solution
Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligence....
Alaska Dinosaurs
An Ancient Arctic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Anthony Fiorillo has been exploring the Arctic since 1998. For him, like many others, the Arctic holds the romance of uncharted territory, extreme conditions, and the inevitable epic challenges that arise. For Fiorillo, however, the Arctic also holds the secrets of the history of life on Earth, and...
Forerunners of Mammals
Radiation • Histology • Biology
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth’s ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles,...
Recarbonization of the Biosphere
Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Human activities are significantly modifying the natural global carbon (C) cycles, and concomitantly influence climate, ecosystems, and state and function of the Earth system. Ever increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) are added to the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion but the biosphere is...
Sedimentary Petrology
An Introduction to the Origin of Sedimentary Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The earlier editions of this book have been used by successive generations of students for more than 20 years, and it is the standard text on the subject in most British universities and many others throughout the world.
The study of sediments and sedimentary rocks continues to be a core topic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Geomorphology is the study of the Earth's diverse physical land-surface features and the dynamic processes that shape these features. Examining natural and anthropogenic processes, The SAGE Handbook of Geomorphology is a comprehensive exposition of the fundamentals of geomorphology that examines form,...
by Andrew S. Goudie, Heather A. Viles
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
The Anthropocene is a major new concept in the Earth sciences and this book examines the effects on geomorphology within this period. Drawing examples from many different global environments, this comprehensive volume demonstrates that human impact on landforms and land-forming processes is profound,...
by Li-Ciao Hong
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book offers a new perspective on those El Niños that grow to extraordinary magnitudes, putting forward the claim that these “super El Niños” should be grouped into an isolated cluster. All known super El Niños exhibit pronounced features that are seldom seen in regular El Niños. Super...
European Margin Sediment Dynamics
Side-Scan Sonar and Seismic Images
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides acoustic images about sedimentary systems of the shelf edge, slope and deep-sea-floor. Data obtained by the European North Atlantic Margin and the STEAM Project shows areas of potential instability and deepwater sediment transport systems on the continental slope. The knowledge...