Geology category: 1681 books
Quaternary Coral Reef Systems
History, development processes and controlling factors
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's...
Wetlands in Central Europe
Soil Organisms, Soil Ecological Processes and Trace Gas Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Wetlands are very sensitive ecosystems, functioning as a habitat for many organisms. Protection and regeneration of wetlands are of great importance in ecological research and in nature conservation. A huge amount of research has been done on the hydrology, plants and animals in wetlands. Knowledge...
Long Term Hillslope and Fluvial System Modelling
Concepts and Case Studies from the Rhine River Catchment
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2008
This volume presents a collection of papers given at a Rhine-LUCIFS (Land use and climate impact on fluvial systems), the aim being to bring together researchers with longstanding experience in developing concepts and modelling approaches for long term landscape evolution and scientists involved in...
by H. Maurer, M.A. Mange
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although some handbooks on the microscopic identi In Part I the concept of heavy mineral analysis is fication of heavy mineral grains are available, a introduced and the relative significance of factors comprehensive manual illustrated in colour has not affecting heavy mineral assemblages is discussed....
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Many have believed that Atlantis was a fiction created by Plato. Well Plato was not the first to write about it.
We have found a very much earlier document. It was written in 9619 BC, about 9,250 years before Plato’s writing.
This ancient document is believed to be the oldest document...
Origins
The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful information, but, even with such additional...
by Roger Dymock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Dwarf planets (which were formerly called asteroids except for the planet Pluto), and the smaller Solar System bodies still called asteroids today, are making front page news, particularly those that are newly discovered and those that might present a hazard to life on Earth by impacting our planet....
Multiscale Geomechanics
From Soil to Engineering Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This book addresses the latest issues in multiscale geomechanics. Written by leading experts in the field as a tribute to Jean Biarez (1927-2006), it can be of great use and interest to researchers and engineers alike.
A brief introduction describes how a major school of soil mechanics came into being...
Coastal Erosion
Response and Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The coastal zone is subject to strong pressures from a large number of users. Populations are migrating to it in large numbers. Industry wants to exploit it for its space, water and manpower. Aggregate miners want to exploit mineral resources and health centers are multiplying. It is a favorite area...
Subsidence
Some practical-quantitative aspects of subsidence projection in drained peatlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
This short article is intended for students and peatland drainage practitioners, discusses practical-quantitative aspects of subsidence in drained peatlands, in a simple approach, includes three main components: consolidation, shrinkage, and oxidation of organic matter. Emphasis is given...
Specimen Banking
Environmental Monitoring and Modern Analytical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
M.J. Schwuger The Environmental Specimen Bank is a repository of representative environ mental specimens for safe long-term storage over decades and centuries without any chemical change in the constituents. It represents the modern form of a systematically designed collection which will permit...
Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril'sk Region
Volume 2. Atlas of Magmatic Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The basis of this investigation is the petrographic and geochemical understanding of principal igneous rock types of the Noril’sk region, in order to demonstrate that these data provide unique and self-evident solutions to the problems of petrogenesis and mineralization. The results of the investigations...
by B. Beke
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
2Vlanuals of mineral dressing or more precisely those of comminution-classifi cation treat in particular the mechanics of the machines, and generally their handling. In this way the plant engineer becomes acquainted with the equip ment but is given no help in learning something of the processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Focusing specifically on the management of karst environments, this volume draws together the world’s leading karst experts to provide a vital source for the study and management of this unique physical setting. Although karst landscapes cover 12% of the Earth’s terrain and provide 25% of the...