Geology category: 1681 books
Morgantina
Geoarcheologia della città in epoca greco-romana
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 7, 2017
La presente guida, la prima della collana “Guide Geoarcheologiche d’Italia”, si basa sui risultati di pluriennali ricerche multidisciplinari e, pur non tralasciando la rigorosità scientifica della trattazione, si prefigge anche finalità divulgative. In tal senso, l’opera è rivolta non solo...
by Adrian E. Scheidegger
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The surface features of the Earth are commonly split into two cate gories, the first of which comprises those features that are due to processes occurring inside the solid Earth (endogenetic features) and the second those that are due to processes occurring outside the solid Earth (exogenetic features)....
by Eric Petermann
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Geology, Mineralogy, Soil Science, grade: 1,3, University of Leipzig (Institut für Geophysik und Geologie), course: M.Sc. Modul Paläoklimatologie, language: English, abstract: At the Paleocene/Eocene boundary (55 Ma BP) a general...
From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective
Impact Crater Research in Germany, 1930s-1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The Nördlinger Ries and Steinheim Basin, two conspicuous geological structures in southern Germany, were traditionally viewed as somewhat enigmatic but nevertheless definitely volcanic edifices until they were finally recognized as impact craters in the 1960s. The changing views about the origin...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphology of Georgia. It describes a country characterized by geological, geomorphological and geographical diversities, located in the Caucasus region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. This book is based on the results of several years of...
by Bjorn O. Mysen, Pascal Richet
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Silicate Glasses and Melts, Second Edition describes the structure-property-composition relationships for silicate glasses and melts from a geological and industrial perspective. Updated sections include (i) characterization of silicate melt and COHN fluid structure (with and without dissolved silicate...
Paleobiodiversity and Tectono-Sedimentary Records in the Mediterranean Tethys and Related Eastern Areas
Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This edited volume contains the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The volume shares the latest results from paleontological, biostratigraphic and sedimentological studies by experienced researchers...
Age Determination of Young Rocks and Artifacts
Physical and Chemical Clocks in Quaternary Geology and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Dating the Quaternary, which covers approximately the last 2 million years, has experienced considerable progress over the past few decades. On the one hand, this resulted from the necessity to obtain a valid age concept for this period which had seen tremendous environmental changes and the advent...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book focuses on the highly touristed, but surprisingly under-researched Lesser Antilles region. After offering a brief overview of the region’s geologic and tectonic history, as well as its basic climatology, subsequent chapters then discuss each island’s (or island set’s) geomorphology...
by Peter Kresten, Valentin R. Troll
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This GeoGuide provides an overview of the geology of Alnö, combined with an up-to-date field itinerary. Covering all major geological aspects, it offers an essential summary of Alnö and its intriguing magmatic rocks in a compact form suitable for field excursions and home study alike. As one of...
Cataclysms on the Columbia
The Great Missoula Floods
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the result of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the...
The Whole Story of Climate
What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In the publicity surrounding global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media. We rarely hear from geologists, who for almost two hundred years have been studying the history of Earth's dramatic and repeated climate revolutions, as revealed in the evidence of rocks...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
j***VERKAUFSKATEGORIE*** 0 e Palaeontologia Cathayana, a book series published in English, offers researchers outside of the People's Republic of China access to Chinese original literature on palaeontology and stratigraphy. The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, non-periodically...
Cataclysms on the Columbia
The Great Missoula Floods
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the result of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the...