Geology category: 1681 books
Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems
Applications to Fossil Fuel and Groundwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Nonrenewable energy resources, comprising fossil fuels and uranium, are not ran domly distributed within the Earth's crust. They formed in response to a complex array of geologic controls, notably the genesis of the sedimentary rocks that host most commercial energy resources. It is this genetic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This book represents a new "earth systems" approach to catchments that encompasses the physical and biogeochemical interactions that control the hydrology and biogeochemistry of the system. The text provides a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of catchment hydrology, principles...
Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Hydrogeology is a topical and growing subject as the earth's water resources become scarcer and more vulnerable. More than half of the surface area of continents is covered with hard rocks of low permiability.
This book deals comprehensively with the fundamental principles for understanding...
Carbonate Platform Slopes — A Record of Changing Conditions
The Pliocene of the Bahamas
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2008
Periplatform slope sediments from the Bahamas serve as an example for a small-scale sedimentologic record of environmental changes. Carbonate platforms react sensitively to sea-level fluctuations. Therefore, sediments deposited on the slope during lowstands differ in composition from highstand deposits....
by Martin Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Practical Petrophysics looks at both the principles and practice of petrophysics in understanding petroleum reservoirs. It concentrates on the tools and techniques in everyday use, and addresses all types of reservoirs, including unconventionals.
The book provides useful explanations on how...
Gold Ore Processing
Project Development and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Gold Ore Processing: Project Development and Operations, Second Edition, brings together all the technical aspects relevant to modern gold ore processing, offering a practical perspective that is vital to the successful and responsible development, operation, and closure of any gold ore processing...
Integrated Reservoir Studies for CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery and Sequestration
Application to an Indian Mature Oil Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book addresses the feasibility of CO2-EOR and sequestration in a mature Indian oil field, pursuing for the first time a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the results from reservoir modeling and flow simulation, rock physics modeling, geomechanics, and time-lapse (4D) seismic monitoring...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Groundwater management and conservation becomes a more and more important issue in the heavily urbanized coastal zones of the Asia-Pacific region. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the status of coastal groundwater research in this diverse region. It includes latest methodologies and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This edited book is devoted to environmental risk management in gas industry impacted polar ecosystems of Russia, one of the hottest topics of modern environmental science. The contributions from experts cover topics that shed new light on the impacts of oil and natural gas production on arctic...
Surface Production Operations, Volume 2:
Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1999
This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips. The authors channeled their classroom and field experience into this volume, which features many new sections such as:
* Heat recovery units
* Kinetic inhibitors and anti-agglomerators
*...
Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Geoarchaeology of the Ancient Gold Mining Sites in the Egyptian and Sudanese Eastern Deserts
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The book presents the historical evolution of gold mining activities in the Egyptian and Nubian Desert (Sudan) from about 4000 BC until the Early Islamic Period (~800–1350 AD), subdivided into the main classical epochs including the Early Dynastic – Old and Middle Kingdoms – New Kingdom (including...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries. The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves, art in caves, hydrology and groundwater, cave and karst history, and conservation and management. The Encyclopedia is extensively...
Groundwater in Ethiopia
Features, Numbers and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive description of groundwater resources in Ethiopia and its various dimensions (groundwater as resource, environmental functions, and socioeconomics). The prevailing knowledge of groundwater resources in Ethiopia (or elsewhere in Sub Saharan Africa) was based on geological...
by Andrew D. Miall
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Over the past five years there have been many advances in the field of basin analysis. Developments such as the publication of new stratigraphic codes; new research in fission-track dating; evolution of thought regarding the importance of tectonic versus eustatic controls of regional and global cycles;...