Geology category: 1681 books
Sediments, Diagenesis, and Sedimentary Rocks
Treatise on Geochemistry, Second Edition, Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
This volume covers the formation and biogeochemistry of a variety of important sediment types from their initial formation through their conversion (diagenesis) to sedimentary rocks. The volume deals with the chemical, mineralogical, and isotopic properties of sediments and sedimentary rocks and their...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
**Modeling of Magmatic and Allied Processes presents methods and models for the quantification of geological processes. Conceptual models for magmatic differentiation involving crystallization and mixing are presented and applied to field and textural data. Model equations for the degree of partial...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
This book presents findings from research into the Precambrian history of the Indian shield obtained using state-of-the-art technology. It demonstrates a paradigm shift towards studying the Precambrian shield regions using petrological, geochemical, structural, metallogenic, sedimentological and paleobiological...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, officially designated the “Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, Japan Earthquake” by the Japan Meteorological Agency caused an unprecedentedly severe disaster in the northeastern part (Tohoku) of the Japanese island of Honshu. This first volume of the series...
Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment
Scenarios for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth. Firstly, climatologists and oceanographers have focused on the changes in our physical environment, ie climate, oceans, and air. And secondly, environmental biologists have addressed issues of conservation and...
ICIPEG 2016
Proceedings of the International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 2016 (ICIPEG 2016), held under the banner of World Engineering, Science & Technology Congress (ESTCON 2016) at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from August 15 to 17, 2016. It...
Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East
Past and Future Projection
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book discusses sea-level and coastline changes. These topics are becoming increasingly important for populations living along the edge of the world’s oceans and seas, especially in areas where eustatic sea-level rise is superimposed on isostatic subsidence and storm-induced coastal erosion....
Distal Impact Ejecta Layers
A Record of Large Impacts in Sedimentary Deposits
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Impact cratering is an important geological process on all solid planetary bodies, and, in the case of Earth, may have had major climatic and biological effects. Most terrestrial impact craters have been erased or modified beyond recognition. However, major impacts throw ejecta over large areas of...
Volcanoes of the Azores
Revealing the Geological Secrets of the Central Northern Atlantic Islands
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Azores archipelago consists of nine islands that emerge from the Azores Plateau in the Central Northern Atlantic, situated within the triple junction of the American, Eurasian and African lithosphere plates. Subaerial volcanic activity has been well known since the Pliocene and continues today,...
by Andrew Y. Glikson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Archaean terrains contain a wealth of structural, stratigraphic, textural, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic features allowing insights into the nature of the early Earth. This book is based on studies during 1964-2007 of Archaean terrains in Australia and to a lesser extent in South Africa...
Earth and Life
Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which...
Landscapes and Societies
Selected Cases
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
This book contains case histories intended to show how societies and landscapes interact. The range of interest stretches from the small groups of the earliest Neolithic, through Bronze and Iron Age civilizations, to modern nation states. The coexistence is, of its very nature reciprocal, resulting...
by A. K. Vinogradov, Yu. I. Bogatova, I. A. Synegub
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This work examines the waters of marine ports as unique integrated aquatic ecosystems. It regards marine ports as entities comprising components of natural and anthropogenic origin, including pelagic, periphytal and benthal subsystems. Using selected Black and Azov Sea ports as examples, the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Based on the comprehensive, award-winning book Rivers of North America, the new Field Guide to Rivers of North America describes 200 of North America’s most significant rivers in a reader-friendly, concise format. The guide is organized by geographic regions - each section begins with a map showing...