Geology category: 1681 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets subjected to extreme stellar radiation and plasma conditions. It is shown that such studies will help us to understand how terrestrial planets and their atmospheres, including the early Venus, Earth and Mars, evolved...
Earth's Magnetosphere
Formed by the Low-Latitude Boundary Layer
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
The author argues that, after five decades of debate about the interactive of solar wind with the magnetosphere, it is time to get back to basics. Starting with Newton's law, this book also examines Maxwell's equations and subsidiary equations such as continuity, constitutive relations and the Lorentz...
Planet Mercury
From Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
A new and detailed picture of Mercury is emerging thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER mission that spent four years in orbit about the Sun’s innermost planet. Comprehensively illustrated by close-up images and other data, the author describes Mercury’s landscapes from a geological perspective: from sublimation...
Planetary Aeronomy
Atmosphere Environments in Planetary Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Planetary Aeronomy is a modern and concise introduction to the underlying physical and chemical processes that govern the formation and evolution of the upper atmospheres of planets. The general approach employed permits consideration of the growing number of extrasolar planets, the detailed observation...
Planetary Vistas
The Landscapes of Other Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word “landscape” can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and this book collects some of the greatest views and vistas of Mars, Venus’s Titan, Io and more in their full glory, with...
by Karl K. Turekian, Heinrich D. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
This extensively updated new edition of the widely acclaimed Treatise on Geochemistry has increased its coverage beyond the wide range of geochemical subject areas in the first edition, with five new volumes which include: the history of the atmosphere, geochemistry of mineral deposits, archaeology...
Meteorites
Messengers from Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Meteorites - as well as shooting stars and meteors - result from a collision of a solid body from space with our Earth, but only meteorites are able to penetrate the Earth's protective shield, the atmosphere, and fall to the Earth's surface. Apart from lunar samples, they are the only materials from...
Isoscapes
Understanding movement, pattern, and process on Earth through isotope mapping
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Stable isotope ratio variation in natural systems reflects the dynamics of Earth systems processes and imparts isotope labels to Earth materials. Carbon isotope ratios of atmospheric CO2 record exchange of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere; the incredible journeys of migrating monarchs...
by Karen Aplin
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Electrical processes take place in all planetary atmospheres. There is evidence for lightning on Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is possible on Mars and Titan, and cosmic rays ionise every atmosphere, leading to charged droplets and particles. Controversy surrounds the role of atmospheric...
The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution
With Special Reference to Large Precambrian and Australian impacts
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution. Since the 1980s the discovery...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
“The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets” presents the main processes participating in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. A group of experts in the different fields provide an update of our current knowledge on this topic.
Several papers in this book...
Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life
Lessons for Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
- How did the Sun come into existence?
- How was the Earth formed?
- How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents?
- How do you define “life”?
- How did the first life forms emerge?
- What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve?
All...
Oil and Gas Exploration in Cuba
Geological-Structural Cartography using Potential Fields and Airborne Gamma Spectrometry
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A summary of the results achieved in the geological-structural mapping, by potential fields and airborne gamma spectrometry data, of the units of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the western regions (Havana-Matanzas), central (Cienfuegos, Villa Clara-Sancti Spiritus) and central-eastern (Camagüey-Las...
La Cuenca Oriente
Geología y petróleo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 5, 2015
La Cuenca Oriente Ecuatoriana representa un extraordinario sistema natural, cuya armonía permea desde lo más profundo de su subsuelo, hasta la explosión de vida vegetal y animal que se desarrolla sobre un suelo, cuya morfología se caracteriza por relieves relativemente importantes con respecto...