Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Natural Gas Seepage
The Earth’s Hydrocarbon Degassing
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The book offers a modern, comprehensive, and holistic view of natural gas seepage, defined as the visible or invisible flow of gaseous hydrocarbons from subsurface sources to Earth’s surface. Beginning with definitions, classifications for onshore and offshore seepage, and fundamentals on gas migration...
Dune Worlds
How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This book describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different settings, and how they are being studied. Particular attention is paid to their formation and appearance elsewhere in the solar system. New developments in knowledge about dunes make for an interesting story – like...
Picture This!
Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put scale extraterrestrial objects side by side with objects on Earth...
Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History
Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Dynic Astropark ‘Ten-Kyu-Kan’, August 14–18, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The last decade of this century has seen a renewed interest in the dynamics and physics of the small bodies of the Solar System, Asteroids, Comets and Meteors. New observational evidences such as the discovery of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, refined numerical tools such as the symplectic integrators,...
Planets: Ours and Others
From Earth to Exoplanets
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
What is a planet? The answer may seem obvious; still, the definition of a planet has continuously evolved over the centuries, and their number has changed following successive discoveries. In 2006, the decision endorsed by the International Astronomical Union to remove Pluto from the list of planets...
by Peter Cargill, Joanna D. Haigh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric composition, while the distribution of solar heating across the planet produces global wind patterns and contributes to the formation of clouds, storms, and...
by Karen Aplin
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Electrical processes take place in all planetary atmospheres. There is evidence for lightning on Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is possible on Mars and Titan, and cosmic rays ionise every atmosphere, leading to charged droplets and particles. Controversy surrounds the role of atmospheric...
Helium
The Disappearing Element
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The subject of the book is helium, the element, and its use in myriad applications including MRI machines, particle accelerators, space telescopes, and of course balloons and blimps. It was at the birth of our Universe, or the Big Bang, where the majority of cosmic helium was created; and stellar...
We the Planet
Evolutionary Governance and Biophilia in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Science is telling us that Earth has become a different kind of planet. There was a time when its life forms evolved according to rules similar to those described by Darwin and his colleagues Now we find that the rules have changed. Every ecosystem, every species, everything that happens in the...
Circumference
Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
How do you measure the size of the planet you're standing on?
"Circumference" is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question. Nicholas Nicastro brings to life one of history's greatest experiments when an ancient Greek named Eratosthenes first accurately...
by Roy Livermore
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Plate tectonics is a revolutionary theory on a par with modern genetics. Yet, apart from the frequent use of clichés such as 'tectonic shift' by economists, journalists, and politicians, the science itself is rarely mentioned and poorly understood. This book explains modern plate tectonics in a non-technical...
The Rare Earth Elements
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book deals with the rare earth elements (REE), which are a series of 17 transition metals: scandium, yttrium and the lanthanide series of elements (lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium...
by Jeremy G. Venditti, James L. Best, Michael Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures.
This book reviews the recent progress in the study of the turbulent flows that sculpt the Earth’s surface, focusing in particular on the organized structures that...
The Worldwide Flood
Uncovering and Correcting the Most Profound Error in the History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Two hundred years ago, geologists determined that there was never a worldwide flood.
But the early geologists’ conclusion—which continues to be believed today—is indisputably erroneous, according to Michael Jaye, Ph.D.
Told in easily understood language, Jaye explains how geologists...