Geology category: 1681 books
by Dr. Richard A. Davis Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
With text and hundreds of figures, charts, drawings, and color photos, this book covers the long, narrow islands that run near and all along the Gulf coast of the Florida peninsula, considered by geologists to be the most complicated barrier island system in the world. These 30 islands and inlets...
by Muhammad Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
An Introduction to Solar Radiation is an introductory text on solar radiation, with emphasis on the methods of calculation for determining the amount of solar radiation incident on a surface on the earth. Topics covered include the astronomical relationship between the sun and the earth; thermal radiation;...
by Winston S
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
If you've advanced beyond the Ball Earth deception and are searching for the truth, then this book will be an indispensable asset in your pursuit of rational dialogue with those who haven't ventured to the edge of their own paradigms and inspected the foundations of their own worldviews. This is written for seekers after truth, not Flat Earthers and not Ball Earthers.
Life in Hawaii
An Autobiographic Sketch of Mission Life and Labors (1835-1881): Revised 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Life in Hawaii: An Autobiographic Sketch of Mission Life and Labors (1835-1881): Revised 2nd Edition.
Includes: -- NCX Navigation with links to all chapters and sections. -- Interactive Table of Contents. -- Interactive Index.
Life in Hawaii is a brief overview of the life and times...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the...
by George Christakos
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This scholarly introductory treatment explores the fundamentals of modern geostatistics, viewing them as the product of the advancement of the epistemic status of stochastic data analysis. The book's main focus is the Bayesian maximum entropy approach for studying spatiotemporal distributions of natural...
Modeling Coastal Hypoxia
Numerical Simulations of Patterns, Controls and Effects of Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book provides a snapshot of representative modeling analyses of coastal hypoxia and its effects. Hypoxia refers to conditions in the water column where dissolved oxygen falls below levels that can support most metazoan marine life (i.e., 2 mg O2 l-1). The number of hypoxic zones has been increasing...
by Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Statistical evaluations of exploration data are the basis for decisions to be made at various stages of an exploration project. In contrast to other geostatistical books, Statistical Evaluations in Exploration for Mineral Deposits focuses not only on theory, but examples are also given, frequently...
by Ryen Caenn, HCH Darley, George R. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The petroleum industry in general has been dominated by engineers and production specialists. The upstream segment of the industry is dominated by drilling/completion engineers. Usually, neither of those disciplines have a great deal of training in the chemistry aspects of drilling and completing...
Fundamentals of Applied Reservoir Engineering
Appraisal, Economics and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Fundamentals of Applied Reservoir Engineering introduces early career reservoir engineers and those in other oil and gas disciplines to the fundamentals of reservoir engineering. Given that modern reservoir engineering is largely centered on numerical computer simulation and that reservoir engineers...
The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations
Tools, Techniques, and Rules of Thumb
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
No fishing job is a welcome operation, but this new edition of a classic reference helps you do the job efficiently and economically. This practical guide is packed with illustrations and descriptions of fishing equipment and tools to help you solve just about any fishing problem. Foremen, engineers,...
Applied Statistical Modeling and Data Analytics
A Practical Guide for the Petroleum Geosciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Applied Statistical Modeling and Data Analytics: A Practical Guide for the Petroleum Geosciences provides a practical guide to many of the classical and modern statistical techniques that have become established for oil and gas professionals in recent years. It serves as a "how to" reference volume...
High and Dry
Meeting the Challenges of the World's Growing Dependence on Groundwater
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
An engaging call to understand and protect groundwater, the primary source of drinking water for almost half of the world’s population Groundwater is essential for drinking water and food security. It provides enormous environmental benefits by keeping streams and rivers flowing. But a growing global...
The Long Thaw
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world’s leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will...