Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Charles A. Heatwole
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Geography is more than just trivia, it can help you understand why we import or export certain products, predict climate change, and even show you where to place fire and police stations when planning a city.
If you’re curious about the world and want to know more about this fascinating place,...
by Ilka Handshaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
We live in a diverse world.We have people who believe in science, read/learn to see what's going on and then act on what we need to do to help our planet heal. But there also those that still question it. What is it going to hurt if we make our Earth clean and green? But if we do nothing we will...
Powering the Future
How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground—either because humans have banned carbon burning or because fuel has simply run out. Boldly, Laughlin predicts no earth-shattering transformations...
Geology
A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
Geology by Frank H. T. Rhodes, an informative Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press, covers the five billion years of history that have given the earth its present form, including:
The earth's relation to the rest of the universe
The rocks...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Hydrogeology of Crystalline Rocks deals with deep groundwater in the granite and gneiss basement of the continents. It has become evident during the past years that highly mineralized water is present in an interconnected fracture network of the basement. Thus, the upper part of the crust of the continents...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions. As a new research domain of Digital Earth, it covers the latest scientific and technical advances, from the acquisition...
by Tim Howard
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Space weather has attracted a lot of attention in recent times. Severe space weather can disrupt spacecraft, and on Earth can be the cause of power outages and power station failure. It also presents a radiation hazard for airline passengers and astronauts. These “magnetic storms” are most commonly...
Great Tide Rising
Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
“A clarion call to summon the moral courage to ‘rage against the dying’ of the Earth . . . impassioned and well-reasoned.” —Kirkus Reviews
Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise—a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of...
Pyrite
A Natural History of Fool's Gold
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral sometimes known as fool's gold. Pyrite behaves like stone and shines like metal, and its dual nature makes it a source of both metals and sulfur. Despite being the most common sulfide mineral on the earth's surface, pyrite's bright crystals...
by A. I. Perel man
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In its classical sense "epigenesis" refers to all geological processes originating at or near the surface of the earth. It thus embraces all those phenomena which we associate with the land scape; Perel'man has already written extensively on this subject. The landscape, in the physical...
Ancient Landscapes of Western North America
A Geologic History with Paleogeographic Maps
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land;...
by Anthony Dias Souza
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Welcome to Doomsday
The world will end shortly - well almost. With luck, a fourth of the human race will survive. At least about that percentage did the last time. Back then, an indeterminate number of living beings ranging in the hundreds of millions died. The physical evidence is there. Remains...
by Edwin J. Houston
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Contents:
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 1 II. Some Effects of the Eruption of Krakatoa 12 III. The Volcanic Island of Hawaii 26 IV. The Volcanic Island of Iceland 46 V. Vesuvius 58 VI....
Adventures in the Anthropocene
A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
We live in times of great change on Earth. In fact, while previous shifts from one geological epoch to another were caused by events beyond human control, the dramatic results of our emission of carbon to the atmosphere over the past century have moved many scientists to declare the dawn of a new era:...