Geology category: 1681 books
by Peter O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
A complete introduction to environmental chemistry, this book provides insight into the operation of the chemical processes near the Earth's surface. The four-part format groups together related environmental topics and introduces theoretical concepts. Part One brings together many essential basic...
The Collector
David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson, who mapped the Columbia River, in his acclaimed book Sources of the River, which set the standard for research and narrative biography for the region. Now Nisbet turns his attention to David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer...
Rockhounding Montana
A Guide to 100 of Montana's Best Rockhounding Sites
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
With this informative, fully updated and revised guide, you can explore the mineral-rich region of Montana. It describes the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commerical sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also descirbes how to collect specimens, includes...
The Physical & Optical Properties of Gemstones
Gemstone Identification Using Physical & Optical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book contains a wealth of information on the physical and optical properties of gemstones. It covers in great detail each facet of these properties in the hope it will assist you, the reader, in correctly identifying gemstones. This publication has been written for both the experienced gem fossicker...
Identification of Diamonds
Australian Gemstones Series Book 14
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This book takes a look at diamonds, in particular the common forms of diamond, rocks in which diamonds are found in nature, diamond types, electrical behaviour, thermal conductivity, chemical composition, crystallography, hardness, specific gravity, determining synthetic diamonds to natural, colour,...
Early Australian Diamond Discoveries
Information on Where Diamonds have been Found in Australia & How to Identify Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book contains stories on early Australian diamond discoveries, and also includes details on how to identify the diamonds you find. The information included has come from early original newspaper sources. Through the passage of time, many Australian diamond locations have been forgotten. The aim...
Identificaton of Pearls
Australian Gemstones Series Book 8
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of pearls, saltwater and freshwater, their appearance, diagnostic properties, common treatments and imitations.
Designed for the beginner or experienced, it will greatly assist those wishing to find out more about how to correctly identify...
Plant Fossil Atlas From (Pennsylvanian) Carboniferous Age
Found In Central Appalachian Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in southwestern Virginia. The fossils are sorted by groups and located as to coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of plant types...
by Robert W. Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
A fully up-to-date, practical guide to foundation engineering
Revised to cover the 2009 International Building Code, Foundation Engineering Handbook, Second Edition presents basic geotechnical field and laboratory studies, such as subsurface exploration and laboratory testing of soil, rock, and groundwater...
Blue Biophilic Cities
Nature and Resilience Along The Urban Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives. We need that nature daily, if not hourly, and so it must be nearby to where we live and work. This is central to the concept of ‘biophilic cities’ which is emerging as a global...
Astrobiology
Understanding Life in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field that asks profound scientific questions. How did life originate on the Earth? How has life persisted on the Earth for over three billion years? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? What is the future of life on Earth?
Astrobiology: Understanding...
The Spiritual Technology of Ancient Egypt
Sacred Science and the Mystery of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
How ancient Egyptians understood quantum theory
• Investigates the history of how modern religion and the Age of Science were inspired by the sacred science of the ancients
• Examines how quantum theory explains that the cosmos arises from consciousness
• Reveals the unanimity...
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
A State-of-Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same...
by Kathleen A. House, James E. House
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
House’s Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition, provides thoroughly updated coverage of the synthesis, reactions, and properties of elements and inorganic compounds. Ideal for the one-semester (ACS-recommended) sophomore or junior level course in descriptive inorganic chemistry, this resource...