Geology category: 1681 books
by Glenn W. Worthington
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
It is amazing to realize that there is a state park in Arkansas that has genuine diamonds and visitors are allowed to keep the gems they find. Even more fascinating is the fact that many children have found large and valuable diamonds there. This ebooks tells the fascinating, true stories of some...
by Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape...
by David A. Burney
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Solar System Maps
From Antiquity to the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In recent years, there has been increased interest in our Solar System. This has been prompted by the launching of giant orbiting telescopes and space probes, the discovery of new planetary moons and heavenly bodies that orbit the Sun, and the demotion of Pluto as a planet. In one generation, our...
The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas
Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other SCT Telescopes: A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In 2004, it became obvious that Henry Hatfield’s original atlas wasn’t suitable for all current commercially-made amateur telescopes. Newtonian telescopes and astronomical refractors – for many years the only choice for amateurs – invert the observed image. The standard Hatfield Atlas...
The Hatfield Lunar Atlas
Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
"The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968.
A major update of the atlas was made in 1998, using the same wonderful photographs that Commander Henry Hatfield made with his purpose-built 12-inch (300 mm) telescope, but...
Moons of the Solar System
From Giant Ganymede to Dainty Dactyl
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This book captures the complex world of planetary moons, which are more diverse than Earth's sole satellite might lead you to believe. New missions continue to find more of these planetary satellites, making an up to date guide more necessary than ever. Why do Mercury and Venus have no moons at...
by Richard Schmude, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
This book is for two groups of people: those who want to study the remote planets with amateur astronomical equipment, and those who are just interested in learning about our knowledge of the remote planets.
The Remote Planets, and How to Observe them is unique in that it gives a completely...
Gem and Stone
Jewels of Earth, Sea, and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Gem and Stone celebrates 50 different gems ranging from timeless classics like diamond and emerald to exotic beauties such as lapis lazuli, peridot, and even petrified wood. Altman's photographs capture the splendor of each gem alongside brief text highlighting the stones' chemical makeups, metaphysical...
Nature's Clocks
How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now...
by B. N. K. Davis, N. Walker, D. F. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
The soil is one of the great unsung disappearing resources, with over 100m tonnes being destroyed every year. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com The soil is the work place of farmers and gardeners, but it is also a fascinating environment inhabited by insects that can leap into the air...
by Scott Elias
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Advances in Quaternary Entomology addresses the science of fossil insects by demonstrating their immense contribution to our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental and climatological record of the past 2.6 million years. In this comprehensive survey of the field, Scott A. Elias recounts development of...
The Holocene
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In its first edition, The Holocene provided undergraduates with a much-needed coherent scientific account of the great transformation of nature that had taken place during the Holocene, the last 10,000 years in the history of the planet and the period in which we are all now living. This period has...
Ground Improvement Case Histories
Compaction, Grouting and Geosynthetics
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Written by an international group of contributors, Ground Improvement Case Histories: Compaction, Grouting and Geosynthetics provides over 700 pages of international case-histories. Each case-history provides an overview of the specific technology followed by applications, with some cases offering...