Geology category: 1681 books
The Paleogene and Neogene of Western Iberia (Portugal)
A Cenozoic record in the European Atlantic domain
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
This volume includes a general description of the Portuguese Cenozoic basins in the Iberian tectonic context. The main stratigraphic units, including sedimentological, stratigraphical and palaeontological data, are characterized. Correlations between different sectors are presented as well as general...
Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia
Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing...
Deep Time Analysis
A Coherent View of the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. The book considers how we think about certain types of paleontological questions and shows how to answer them. The analytical tools presented here will have wide application to other...
Footprints in Stone
Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about its fossil record.
Currently 2,500 miles from the equator and more...
by Imke de Pater, Jack J. Lissauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
An authoritative introduction for graduate students in the physical sciences, this textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. The second edition of this award-winning textbook has been substantially updated...
Sustainability Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This textbook provides a comprehensive compilation of conceptual perspectives, methodological approaches and empirical insights of inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability science. Written by an international team of authors from leading sustainability institutions, the textbook covers key perspectives...
Living Earth
A Short History of Life and its Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Life has shaped the Earth, and the Earth has moulded the history of life. That history, the co-evolution of our ancestors and their horne, has much to teach us about our place on the planet today. We are part of the fabric of the biosphere. As we change that fabric we would be wise to understand how...
Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Porous Media: Modelling and Benchmarking
Benchmarking Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book presents a new suite of benchmarks for and examples of porous media mechanics collected over the last two years. It continues the assembly of benchmarks and examples for porous media mechanics published in 2014. The book covers various applications in the geosciences, geotechnics, geothermal...
Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution
A Focus on South Western Gondwana
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems. It contains a detailed account of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian geological record in a poorly-known part of the world,...
The Indian Mesozoic Chronicle
Sequence Stratigraphic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
The book reviews and summarizes the Indian Mesozoic geological evolution in an innovative alternative perspective of sequence stratigraphy. It mainly focuses on the Jurassic interval, but also concisely discusses the preceding Triassic and Cretaceous geological records. The key to the study is primarily...
The Dawn Angiosperms
Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Angiosperms are the most diversi ed plant group in the world, being represented by ca 300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had their own history and gone through many evolutionary stages before they arrived at their current forms. The origin of Angiospermae...
The Dawn Angiosperms
Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this...
Plant Litter
Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
When starting our work on this book we intended to summarize and synthesize the new information that had developed in the last 20-30 years in the field of plant lit ter decomposition. It turned out, however, that the main part of more recent work was directed towards boreal and temperate forest...
by Philip Bruce Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This book speaks of the book written in stone beneath our feet as it was read by geologists. It explains why there is a great puzzle about the meaning of the book of stone. It also explains why there is a great puzzle about parts of the book of books the Bible. It brings together the threads of science and leaves the reader poised ready to embark upon the ending of the origins controversy.