Geology category: 1681 books
by A. Nicolas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Physicists attempt to reduce natural phenomena to their essential dimensions by means of simplification and approximation and to account for them by defining natural laws. Paradoxically, whilst there is a critical need in geology to reduce the overwhelming field information to its essentials, it often...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The changing focus and approach of geomorphic research suggests that the time is opportune for a summary of the state of discipline.
The number of peer-reviewed papers published in geomorphic journals has grown steadily for more than two decades and, more importantly, the diversity of authors...
Rifts and Passive Margins
Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Rifts and passive margins are extremely important for the petroleum industry, as they are areas of high sedimentation and can contain significant oil and gas resources. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of rifts and passive margins as a whole. It synthesises in one volume the existing...
by Andrew Miall
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
This book is intended to complement the author's 1996 book "The geology of fluvial deposits", not to replace it.
The book summarizes methods of mapping and interpretation of fluvial depositional systems, with a detailed treatment of the tectonic, climatic and eustatic controls on...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
This comprehensive book highlights soft computing and geostatistics applications in hydrocarbon exploration and production, combining practical and theoretical aspects.
It spans a wide spectrum of applications in the oil industry, crossing many discipline boundaries such as geophysics, geology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
International Kimberlite Conferences (IKCs) are special events that are held across the world once in four to five years. IKC is the confluence platform for academicians, scientists and industrial personnel concerned with diamond exploration and exploitation, petrology, geochemistry, geochronology,...
Phanerozoic Phosphorite Depositional Systems
A Dynamic Model for a Sedimentary Resource System
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments. Starting with geochemistry and including new methods in sedimentology (sequence stratigraphy), it results in an interdisciplinary approach to a resource system covering all fields of phosphate geology. For researchers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
The second half of the past century witnessed a remarkable paradigm shift in approach to the understanding of igneous rocks. Global literature records a change from a classical petrographic approach to emphasis on mineral chemistry, trace element characteristics, tectonic setting, phase relations,...
The Making of India
Geodynamic Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book presents in a concise format a simplified and coherent geological-dynamical history of the Indian subcontinent (including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Southern Tibet and Pakistan).
Encompassing a broad array of information related to structure and tectonics, stratigraphy and palaeontology,...
The Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap, Iceland
Glacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms on an Active Volcano
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Lowland glaciers are usually considered the best analogs for formerly glaciated areas and as such, many Icelandic glaciers have been intensively investigated with regard to process-orientated sediment-landform interrelationships. The Mýrdalsjökull ice cap has, thus, served as an excellent "ice-age...
by Kurt M. Cuffey, W. S. B. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The Physics of Glaciers, Fourth Edition, discusses the physical principles that underlie the behavior and characteristics of glaciers. The term glacier refers to all bodies of ice created by the accumulation of snowfall, e.g., mountain glaciers, ice caps, continental ice sheets, and ice shelves. Glaciology—the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
This volume integrates the latest findings on earliest life forms, identified and characterised in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. New material from prominent researchers in the field is presented and evaluated in the context of previous work. Emphasis is placed on the integration of analytical...
Geological Hazards
Earthquakes - Tsunamis - Volcanoes - Avalanches - Landslides - Floods
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Growth of population, communication and interdependence among countries has sharpened the impact of natural disasters. Not only have calamities and miseries been given wider publicity, but the realization has grown that through rational study and foresight much can be done to mitigate these hazards...
Marine Geochemistry
Ocean Circulation, Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Marine geochemistry uses chemical elements and their isotopes to study how the ocean works in terms of ocean circulation, chemical composition, biological activity and atmospheric CO2 regulation. This rapidly growing field is at a crossroad for many disciplines (physical, chemical and biological oceanography,...