Geology category: 1681 books
Rock Fracture and Blasting
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Rock Fracture and Blasting: Theory and Applications provides the latest on stress waves, shock waves, and rock fracture, all necessary components that must be critically analyzed to maximize results in rock blasting. The positioning of charges and their capacity and sequencing are covered in this...
by George V. Khazanov
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The inner magnetosphere plasma is a very unique composition of different plasma particles and waves. It covers a huge energy plasma range with spatial and time variations of many orders of magnitude. In such a situation, the kinetic approach is the key element, and the starting point of the theoretical...
by Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Henrik Farkas
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Recent years have seen a growing trend to derive models of macroscopic phenomena encountered in the fields of engineering, physics, chemistry, ecology, self-organisation theory and econophysics from various variational or extremum principles. Through the link between the integral extremum of a functional...
The South Atlantic
Present and Past Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Robert L. Carlton
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This authored dictionary presents a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts, with focus on the most significant orders, genera, and species in terms of historical turning points such as mass extinctions. The book is an accurate and up-to-date collection of the most...
Newton's Gravity
An Introductory Guide to the Mechanics of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
“Newton’s Gravity” conveys the power of simple mathematics to tell the fundamental truth about nature. Many people, for example, know the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon and to a lesser extent the Sun. But very few can explain exactly how and why that happens. Fewer still can calculate...
by Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer, Manfred Dalheimer, Markus Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This textbook is a translation of the German textbook "Rechnen fUr Lagerstattenkundler und Rohstoffwirtschaftler, Teil 1" published by the Ellen Pilger Publishing Company. Those passages in the German edition which were especially written for the German readership were transform ed for...
Solar System Astrophysics
Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The second edition of Solar System Astrophysics: Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System provides a timely update of our knowledge of planetary atmospheres and of the bodies of the outer solar system and their analogs in other planetary systems. This volume begins with an expanded treatment...
The Cosmic Keyhole
How Astronomy Is Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
In the last thirty years humans have probed the Universe, explored the Solar System and visited with spacecraft some of the most incredible places humans have ever laid eyes upon. We have expanded our knowledge slowly and surely, but still now only see a glimpse of the bigger picture. The Cosmic Keyhole...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In 1988, in an article on the analysis of the measurements of the variations in the radial velocities of a number of stars, Campbell, Walker, and Yang reported an - teresting phenomenon;the radial velocity variations of Cephei seemed to suggest the existence of a Jupiter-like planet around this star....
The Earth as a Distant Planet
A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective...
The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events
Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This volume addresses major evolutionary changes that took place during the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. These include discussions on major evolutionary radiations and ecological innovations on land and at sea, such as the Mesozoic marine revolution, the Mesozoic radiation of vertebrates, the Mesozoic...
by T.R. Paton
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is an attempt to put into practice these precepts of Popper and Koestler as far as they can be applied to the Earth sciences at an elementary level. It is felt that the time is ripe for such a presentation, for the revolution that has taken place over the past 20 years within the Earth sciences...
The Changing Alpine Treeline
The Example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. Alpine tundra is an island biome and its ecotone with forest is subject to change, and like oceanic islands, alpine...