Geology category: 1681 books
by Harry Dembicki
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Practical Petroleum Geochemistry for Exploration and Production provides readers with a single reference that addresses the principle concepts and applications of petroleum geochemistry used in finding, evaluating, and producing petroleum deposits. Today, there are few reference books available on...
Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover
All the Formulas You Need to Solve Drilling and Production Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover: All the Formulas You Need to Solve Drilling and Production Problems, Third Edition, provides a convenient source of reference for oil field workers who do not use formulas and calculations on a regular basis. This book is still intended...
by Johannes Fink
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids is a comprehensive manual that provides end users with information about oil field chemicals, such as drilling muds, corrosion and scale inhibitors, gelling agents and bacterial control. This book is an extension and update of Oil Field...
Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism
25 Years After The Discovery Of Coesite And Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism (UHPM) is a fast growing discipline that was established 25 years ago after discoveries of high pressure minerals, coesite and diamonds. The current explosion of research on UHMP terranes reflects their significance for understanding large scale mantle dynamics, major...
by Dilip Kumar, Deepak Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Management of Coking Coal Resources provides a one-stop reference that focuses on sustainable mining practices using a four-point approach that includes the economical, governmental, societal, and environmental aspects of coal exploration, coking coal mining, and steelmaking applications.
This...
Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas
Monitoring and Prediction Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas: Monitoring and Prediction Technologies presents the fundamentals of mining related geotechnical risk and how the latest advances in sensing and data communication can be used both to prevent accidents and provide early warnings.
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Applied Coal Petrology
The Role of Petrology in Coal Utilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
This book is an integrated approach towards the applications of coal (organic) petrology and discusses the role of this science in the field of coal and coal-related topics.
Coal petrology needs to be seen as a continuum of organic (macerals) and inorganic (minerals and trace elements) contributions...
by Toby Darling
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
This hand guide in the Gulf Drilling Guides series offers practical techniques that are valuable to petrophysicists and engineers in their day-to-day jobs. Based on the author’s many years of experience working in oil companies around the world, this guide is a comprehensive collection of techniques...
Geotechnical Engineering
Soil and Foundation Principles and Practice, 5th Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Master the Latest Developments in Soil Testing and New Applications of Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices offers students and practicing engineers a concise, easy-to-understand approach to the principles and methods of soil and geotechnical engineering....
On Shaky Ground
America's Earthquake Alert
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A chilling look at the massive earthquakes that could strike America at any moment
Far beneath the earth’s surface, great tectonic plates grind against one another with incredible pressure that must—inevitably—be released. Earthquakes manifest with little warning, upending buildings,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2005
The gold processing industry is experiencing change. As free-milling and oxide ores become depleted, more complex polymetallic and refractory ores are being processed, coupled with increasing pressure for stricter environmental compliance. Recent years have also seen a steady reduction in mineral...
Non-Renewable Resource Issues
Geoscientific and Societal Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
All the solid fuels fossil energy and mineral commodities we use come out of the Earth. Modern society is increasingly dependent on mineral and fossil energy sources. They differ in availability, cost of production, and geographical distribution. Even if solid fuels, fossil energy resources and mineral...
Identification of Feldspar and Its Varieties
Australian Gemstones Series Book 5
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of the mineral feldspar, and its varieties. Designed for the beginner or experienced, it will greatly assist those wishing to find out more about how to correctly identify feldspar minerals. Each feldspar variety is shown, with information...
The Mid-Oceanic Ridges
Mountains Below Sea Level
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book is completely in phase with the 1994 science.