Geology category: 1681 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
E****xploring environmental changes through Earth’s geological history using chemostratigraphy
Chemostratigraphy is the study of the chemical characteristics of different rock layers. Decoding this geochemical record across chronostratigraphic boundaries can provide insights into geological...
by Subash Chandra Mahala
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the nature of manifestation and general aspects of thermal springs of Odisha. A detailed description of geological formations and the relationship between tectonic settings with thermal spring emanation is given for better understanding of the geothermal...
Pre-Mesozoic Geology in France and Related Areas
and Related Areas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice
Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Landslides (Napoli, Italy, 12-19 June 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice contains the invited lectures and all papers presented at the 12th International Symposium on Landslides, (Naples, Italy, 12-19 June 2016). The book aims to emphasize the relationship between landslides and other natural hazards. Hence,...
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Critical Introduction begins: "Of the remarkable "trilogy" constituted by Darwin's writings which deal with the geology of the "Beagle," the member which has perhaps attracted least attention, up to the present time is that which treats of the geology of South America. The actual writing of this...
Wörterbuch der Geologie / Dictionary of Geology
Deutsch - Englisch/English - German
Language: German
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Wissenschaftliche Publikationen werden heute fast nur noch in Englisch verfasst. Sowohl für das Verständnis englischsprachiger Fachliteratur als auch für das Verfassen eigener Publikationen braucht man dringend ein verlässliches Fachwörterbuch. Auch Wissenschaftlern, deren Muttersprache nicht...
by François Henri Cornet
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This key textbook considers the mechanics of geomaterials at a wide range of scales, both in time and space. It provides a detailed introduction to the study of crustal geomechanics, focussing specifically on the seismogenic crust. The author demonstrates how continuum mechanics principles can provide...
Rocks and Minerals of The World
Geology for Kids - Minerology and Sedimentology
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Those stones you see might be an important mineral that the Earth creates. This book will open your child’s minds to the importance of the rocks and minerals you can dig up. It is a very informative book that is complete with images and just the right amount of texts too. Go ahead and get a copy of this book today!
The Map That Changed the World
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell—clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world—making it...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years
Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel...
The Story of Earth
The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres....
A Crack in the Edge of the World
America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look...
by Prescott Rawlings
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Atlantis the Great Flood and the Asteroid examines the evidence for an asteroid impact in early human prehistory which interrupted the progression of human development. It considers whether a large asteroid caused the Earth to shift its axis the Great Flood a Mass Extinction Event and possibly sank the...
by Edward F. Albin, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
We see it every day, yet we understand so little about Earth. From minerals to meteorites, this book covers every aspect of the science of our world. It breaks this complex discipline into four major sections: geology, oceanography, meteorology, and planetary science, and it gives an overview of the...