Geology category: 1681 books
by Matt Kilburn, Allan Chivas, Svetlana Tessalina
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The pace of revolution in analytical chemistry in the field of Geosciences has been dramatic over recent decades and includes fundamental developments that have become common place in many related and unrelated disciplines. The analytical tools (nano to macro-scale from stable to radioactive isotopes,...
Timefulness
How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Why an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival
Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of...
by Elisa Buforn, Carmen Pro, Agustín Udías
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Solving problems is an indispensable exercise for mastering the theory underlying the various branches of geophysics. This book is a collection of nearly 200 problems in geophysics, which are solved in detail showing each step of their solution, the equations used and the assumptions made. Simple...
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years
The Next Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty yearswhether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils
Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable local and regional effects of drought, frre,...
Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum
Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing...
by Martin Redfern
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves were drifting across the surface of the globe...
Frozen Earth
The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation—nearly three billion years ago—to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic...
The Basics of Geomorphology
Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
"I can think of no better guides than Professors Ken Gregory and John Lewin to lead the reader through the conceptual basis of this exciting science."
- Victor R. Baker, University of Arizona
"A very readable and informative introduction to the discipline for senior undergraduates,...
The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt
Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating 75 Years from November 10, 1940 Vrancea Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences. With an estimated moment magnitude of 7.7 and a heavy toll in terms of human and economic losses, it ranks as the largest intermediate-depth earthquake in Europe in the twentieth century....
Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus
Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
ESA’s Venus Express Mission has monitored Venus since April 2006, and scientists worldwide have used mathematical models to investigate its atmosphere and model its circulation. This book summarizes recent work to explore and understand the climate of the planet through a research program under...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about...
by Michael Gadsden, Wilfried Schröder
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
An atmospheric phenomenon is considered as 'explained' when we have succeeded in deducing it on the basis of accepted principles of physics. (H. Ertel, Methods and problems of dynamical meteorolo gy,p. l) Until recently, noctilucent clouds were regarded merely as a curious atmos pheric phenomenon,...