Geology category: 1681 books
by L. Sheela Nair, T.S. Shahul Hameed, T.N. Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The Lakshadweep islands are a group of 36 coral islands in the Indian Ocean. These small islands are unique for their aquatic bio-diversity and vast blue lagoons. This book presents the results of studies done by the authors during the period 1990 to 2009 that address the beach morphology, hydrodynamics,...
Reef-Platform Coral Boulders
Evidence for High-Energy Marine Inundation Events on Tropical Coastlines
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The primary goal here is to present a treatise on the significance and value of coarse clastic carbonate sediments (i.e. large coral boulders) on tropical coastlines for understanding both modern and pre-historical (Holocene) high-magnitude marine inundation events. There has been a rapid groundswell...
Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization
Selected Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
At the coast all is not what it seems. Decades of beachfront development have seen a variety of efforts to stabilize the shoreline to protect ill-placed beachfront property, both from shoreline erosion and from storm damage. Both of these problems become increasingly critical in a time of rising...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goals of the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, by establishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals,...
After the Earth Quakes
Elastic Rebound on an Urban Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath...
Carbonatite Volcanism
Oldoinyo Lengai and the Petrogenesis of Natrocarbonatites
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the last few years, carbonatites have received a considerable amount of attention. Some of this interest was no doubt kindled by the importance of volatiles in the Earth's mantle, particularly CO , by the fact that carbonatites 2 can be used to monitor the chemical evolution of the sub-continental...
Springs and Bottled Waters of the World
Ancient History, Source, Occurrence, Quality and Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides information about springs, mineral waters, and thermal waters used for municipal, industrial, and agricultural water supplies and the rapidly expanding bottled water industry. The role of springs is described for ancient civilizations, military campaigns and, in more recent times,...
Physical Properties of Rocks
A Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Physical Properties of Rocks: A Workbook is a symbiosis of a brief description of physical fundamentals of rock properties (based on typical experimental results and relevant theories and models) with a guide for practical use of different theoretical concepts. For this purpose a companion web site...
Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Reaction Path Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The contents of this monograph are two-scope. First, it intends to provide a synthetic but complete account of the thermodynamic and kinetic foundations on which the reaction path modeling of geological CO2 sequestration is based. In particular, a great effort is devoted to review the thermodynamic...
Physical Properties of Rocks
Fundamentals and Principles of Petrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The interpretation of geophysical data in exploration geophysics, well logging, engineering, mining and environmental geophysics requires knowledge of the physical properties of rocks and their correlations. Physical properties are a "key" for combined interpretation techniques. The study...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The analysis of polar ice cores has proven to be very instructive about past environmental conditions on the time scale of several climatic cycles, and recent drilling operations have provided information of great value for global change issues.
The book presents the most recent data extracted from...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Subduction zones, one of the three types of plate boundaries, return Earth's surface to its deep interior. Because subduction zones are gently inclined at shallow depths and depress Earth's temperature gradient, they have the largest seismogenic area of any plate boundary. Consequently, subduction...
by Christoph Clauser
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
This book deals with the signatures left by geodynamic proceses in the temperature field of the Earth's crust. First, it introduces briefly the established, indirect methods for interpreting the present termperature field and methods for reconstructing the thermal fields of the geological past. Then...