Geology category: 1681 books
Lunar Domes
Properties and Formation Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Lunar domes are structures of volcanic origin which are usually difficult to observe due to their low heights. The Lunar Domes Handbook is a reference work on these elusive features. It provides a collection of images for a large number of lunar domes, including telescopic images acquired with advanced...
by Helmut G.F. Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology
A Road Map for Wildlife Management and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book represents an introductory review of disturbance ecology and threat analysis, providing schematic concepts and approaches useful for work on sites that are affected by the impact of human actions. It is aimed at conservation and environmental practitioners, who will find tips for choosing...
by M. A. Levitan, Yu A. Lavrushin
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
The book reflects the results of the study of sedimentation history, paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography of the Arctic and Subarctic during the last 130 ka. The main objects under consideration are marine basins of the West Subarctic (Iceland, Norwegian, and Greenland Seas), the Arctic Ocean (Barents,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Southeast Asia constitutes one of the world's most extended rainforest regions. It is characterized by a high degree of biodiversity and contains a large variety of endemic species. Moreover, these forests provide a number of important and sin gular ecosystem services, like erosion protection and...
Coral Reef Science
Strategy for Ecosystem Symbiosis and Coexistence with Humans under Multiple Stresses
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book aims to illuminate coral reefs which comprise a symbiotic system coexisting among ecosystems, landforms, and humans at various levels and to provide a scientific basis for its reconstruction. The authors conducted an interdisciplinary project called “Coral Reef Science” from 2008 to...
Measurements of Spin-Orbit Angles for Transiting Systems
Toward an Understanding of the Migration History of Exoplanets
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This thesis presents accurate analyses of the spin-orbit angle for many remarkable transiting exoplanetary systems, including the first measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for a multiple transiting system.
The author presents the observational methods needed to probe the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
TO THE MODEL EVALUATION 1. MODELLING SOIL EROSION BY WATER l 2 John Boardman and David Favis-Mortlock 1 School of Geography and Environmental Change Unit Mansfield Road University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3TB UK 2 Environmental Change Unit University of Oxford 5 South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3UB UK Introduction...
by Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The Tree Habit in Land Plants
A Functional Comparison of Trunk Constructions with a Brief Introduction into the Biomechanics of Trees
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The present study will help answer questions of tree type evolution, function, optimum, and tree construction types, using the approach of constructional morphology which to date has been widely neglected in palaeobotany and botany. First, the evolution pattern of the earliest Devonian trees is analyzed...
by Academician Vladimir Vernadsky, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The classic works by the renowned Russian scientist who published the first edition of The Biosphere in 1926. This unabridged translation is made from the 1944 edition and translated from the Russian alongside his other most important book Essays on Geochemistry. In these two volumes, Vernadsky details...
Solar System Astrophysics
Background Science and the Inner Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The second edition of Solar System Astrophysics: Background Science and the Inner Solar System provides new insights into the burgeoning field of planetary astronomy. As in the first edition, this volume begins with a rigorous treatment of coordinate frames, basic positional astronomy, and the celestial...
Japanese Commons in the Coastal Seas
How the Satoumi Concept Harmonizes Human Activity in Coastal Seas with High Productivity and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as “coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction” in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation in the coastal seas has been widely accepted and was included in the...
Distant Wanderers
The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Recent discoveries of planet-like objects circling other sun-like stars have stirred enormous interest in what other planets may exist in the universe, and whether they could support intelligent life. This book takes us into the midst of this search for extrasolar planets. Unlike other books, it focuses...