Geology category: 1681 books
by T. Kurihara
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via the theory of practice.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book builds on existing work exploring succession, disturbance ecology, and the interface between geophysical and biological systems in the aftermath of the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens. The eruption was dramatic both in the spatial extent of impacts and the range of volcanic disturbance...
Geohistory
Global Evolution of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discusses the global evolution of the earth, such as core- mantle separation, mantle-crust evolution, origin of ocean- atmosphere system, on the basis of isotope earth science and paleomagnetism, where recent devlopment in planetology and astrophysical theories are extensively taken into account.
Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic
Results of the International Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the IGCP-Project 216 “Global Biological Events in Earth History”
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The existence of rapid and even catastrophic turnovers within the Phanerozoic ecosystems has been discussed controversially for more than 170 years. Since 1980 this discussion has become even more intensive after the hypothesis of Alvarez, explaining the end-Cretaceous mass extinction as the result...
Flood By Design
Receding Water Shapes the Earth's Surface
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
There are features on the earth's surface that science cannot explain with theories of changes over millions or even billions of years by the geographic processes that we see occurring commonly today. However, when you explore the evidence from a biblical worldview, the geological features marking...
Cold Comfort, Second Edition
My Love Affair with the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
In 1936 Graham Rowley went to the still-unexplored west coast of Baffin Island as the archaeologist for a small British expedition - the last in the Canadian North that depended on traditional techniques. Cold Comfort, his acclaimed memoir of this period, captures the way of life in the North before...
by Beth Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This thesis is remarkable for the wide range of the techniques and observations used and for its insights, which cross several disciplines. It begins by solving a famous puzzle of the ancient world, which is what was responsible for the tsunami that destroyed settlements in the eastern Mediterranean...
by Marcus Knight
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
My Story of Australian history is broken up into to two parts that really overlap with the arrival of man probably at an earlier time than others have. The Second part of the book I explain from my research of Old books that I have inherited some the Prehistory of the Aboriginal Tribes their rituals,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In May of 1991, Victor Van Buren, who was then with Springer Verlag in New York City, asked us for timely topics in the earth sciences that would be appropriate for publication as a book. We all quickly agreed that recent interest and research activity on the role of organic acids in geological...
The Fisheries Co-management Experience
Accomplishments, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
For two decades the idea of governments and fishers working together to manage fisheries has been advocated, questioned, disparaged and, most importantly, attempted in fisheries from North and South America through Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. This book is the first time these experiences have...
by Alfred Russell Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This small volume was commenced as a review article on Professor Percival Lowell's book, Mars and its Canals, with the object of showing that the large amount of new and interesting facts contained in this work did not invalidate the conclusion I had reached in 1902, and stated in my book on Man's...
Celestial Shadows
Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets...
Pre-Earthquake Processes
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Earthquake Prediction Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Pre-Earthquake signals are advanced warnings of a larger seismic event. A better understanding of these processes can help to predict the characteristics of the subsequent mainshock. Pre-Earthquake Processes: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Earthquake Prediction Studies presents the latest research...
by David Horne, Jonathan Holmes, Finn Viehberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells. As methods...