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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In this book, contributors from diverse backgrounds take a first step toward an integrated view of reefs and the significance of their recent decline. More than any other earth system, coral reefs sit at a disciplinary crossroads. Most recently, they have reached another crossroads - fundamental changes...
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
IGC 2016 Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This book gathers selected proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society, and covers various aspects of soil dynamics and earthquake geotechnical engineering. The book includes a wide range of studies on seismic response of dams, foundation-soil systems, natural and man-made...
The Northern Sea Route as a Shipping Lane
Expectations and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This book analyses the current and future viability of the Northern Sea Route as a stable transport route for the international transit traffic between Europe and the Far East. It includes the present conditions, defining and evaluating viability factors for using the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The...
Restoration of Lakes, Streams, Floodplains, and Bogs in Europe
Principles and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
Despite our growing awareness of the vital role they play in the global environment, wetlands remain among the most endangered ecosystems on Earth and are still being destroyed and degraded at an alarming rate. This much-needed publication, which includes contributions from leading researchers and...
by J.R.L. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
apparatus is generally not required for the making of My aim in this book is simple. It is to set out in a logical useful sedimentological experiments. Most of the equip way what I believe is the minimum that the senior undergraduate and beginning postgraduate student in ment needed for those I...
Geology in the Nineteenth Century
Changing Views of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this clear and comprehensive introduction to developments in geological theory during the nineteenth century, Mott T. Greene asserts that the standard accounts of nineteenth-century geology, which dwell on the work of Anglo-American scientists, have obscured the important contributions of Continental...
by Jean Chaline
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Paleontology of Vertebrates is an introductory text for students in Earth Sciences. It offers the basic knowledge and describes the evolution of vertebrate groups, successfully applying the cladistic approach. The reader will learn how vertebrate paleontology can contribute to solve problems in various...
Bombs Away
Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
When viewed from space, the Korean Peninsula is crossed by a thin green ribbon. On the ground, its mix of dense vegetation and cleared borderlands serves as home to dozens of species that are extinct or endangered elsewhere on the peninsula. This is Korea’s demilitarized zone—one of the most dangerous...
by F. J. Monkhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The geographer seeks to describe the diverse features of the earth's surface, to explain if possible how these features have come to be what they are, and to discuss how they influence the distribution of man with his diverse activities. Geography therefore stands transitionally yet centrally between...
Medical Geology
Effects of Geological Environments on Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Geology, one of the basic natural sciences, is proving to be of outstanding importance in solving problems relating to:
agriculture
exploitation of the Earth's mineral resources
environmental issues
soil preservation
water
energy and other resources
protection against natural disasters...
Investigating Seafloors and Oceans
From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid offers a bottom-to-top tour of the world’s oceans, exposing the secrets hidden therein from a variety of scientific perspectives. Opening with a discussion of the earth’s formation, hot spots, ridges, plate tectonics, submarine...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book contains texts by the Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen who is best known for his research on ozone depletion. It comprises Crutzen’s autobiography, several pictures documenting important stages of his life, and his most important scientific publications. The Dutch atmospheric chemist is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Written by leading global experts, including pioneers in the field, the four-volume set on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation, Second Edition, reviews existing state-of-the-art knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and provides guidance for the appropriate use of hyperspectral...
Palaeoclimatic Research and Models
Report and Proceedings of the Workshop held in Brussels, December 15–17, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Palaeoclimatology is presently experiencing a period of rapid growth of techniques and concepts. Studies of earth's past climates ryrovide excellent opportunities to examine the interactions between the atmosrhere, oceans, cryosphere and the land surfaces. Thus, there is a growing recognition of the...