Geology category: 1681 books

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Introductory Geotechnical Engineering

An Environmental Perspective

by Hsai-Yang Fang, John L. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017

Integrating and blending traditional theory with particle-energy-field theory, this book provides a framework for the analysis of soil behaviour under varied environmental conditions. This book explains the why and how of geotechnical engineering in an environmental context. Using both SI and...
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Learned in the Trenches

Insights into Leadership and Resilience Compiled by Two Women Leaders in Energy

by Hosnia S. Hashim, Maria Angela Capello
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

This book shares the learnings and perspectives of two pioneer women who waded the many challenges posed by multiculturalism and gender in one of the corporate environments more rigid and traditional in the business world: the energy sector in the Middle East. How they managed to create a growth...
Cover of Carbon Cycle in the Russian Arctic Seas
by Alexander Vetrov, Evgeny Romankevich
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

This study analyzes carbon-cycle conditions controlling the state of the Arctic ecosystem and their seasonal variations. Territory covered includes the Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, East-Siberian and Chukchi Seas, considering inter-correlations between sources of organic carbon, their fluxes, recycling...
Cover of Kimberlites, Orangeites, and Related Rocks
by Roger H. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Cover of Raw Materials for Future Energy Supply
by Friedrich-W. Wellmer, Peter Buchholz, Jens Gutzmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018

This is the first book that analyses the future raw materials supply from the demand side of a society that chiefly relies on renewable energies, which is of great significance for us all. It addresses primary and secondary resources and substitution, not only from technical but also socioeconomic...
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The German Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB)

Site-selection Studies in the Oberpfalz and Schwarzwald

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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

In October 1986 the German Minister for Research and Technology (Bundesminister fUr Forschung und Technologie), Dr. H. Riesenhuber, officially announced that the super-deep borehole of the Continental Deep Drilling Program of the Federal Republic of Germany (KTB) would be drilled in the Oberpfalz...
Cover of Photo Atlas of Mineral Pseudomorphism
by J. Theo Kloprogge, Rob Lavinsky, Stretch Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017

Photo Atlas of Mineral Pseudomorphism provides a comprehensive overview on the topic of pseudomorphism—in which one mineral is replaced by another but still maintains its original crystal form—a phenomenon that is far more common than currently thought and is extremely important in understanding...
Cover of Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril'sk Region
by V.V. Ryabov, A.Ya. Shevko, M.P. Gora
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...
Cover of Stable Isotope Geochemistry
by Jochen Hoefs
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

The first edition of this book was published in 1973, the second, totally rewritten, followed 7 years later in 1980. Because the field of stable isotopes is still grow­ ing and exerting an increasing influence on geosciences in general, it seems to be necessary, after a further 7 years, to revise...
Cover of Atlas of Shear Zone Structures in Meso-scale
by Soumyajit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

Study of structures associated with shear zones is a crucial aspect to understand the deformation mechanism associated with such zones. Shear zones have been emphasized since it will lead to many latest applied studies such as radioactive waste disposal, groundwater flow etc. For the sake of brevity,...
Cover of Metallogeny of Tin
by Bernd Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006

Metallogeny of Tin attempts to develop a general metallogenic model for tin in identifying the essential or relevant processes in tin ore formation. The methodological principle is based on an interplay between a background of basic petrogenetic concepts and a number of specific local and regional data...
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by Hans-Ulrich Schmincke, Richard V. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Pyroclastic Rocks is the first modern comprehensive treatment of what they are and how they were formed. The subject is discussed against a background of plate tectonics theory and modern advances in volcanology, sedimentology and igneous petrology. The book provides a thorough discussion of magmatic...
Cover of Lithosphere Dynamics and Sedimentary Basins of the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Areas
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

This book focuses on the links between deep earth (mantle) and shallow processes in areas of active tectonics in the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Areas. It also provides key information for energy resources in these areas. The book is a compilation of selected papers from the Task Force of the...
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The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary

Reconstruction of Material Budgets and Current Systems

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The South Atlantic plays a critical role in the couplingofoceanic processes between the Antarctic and the lower latitudes. The Antarctic Ocean, along with the adjacent southern seas, is of substantial importance for global climate and for the distributionofwater masses because itprovides large regions...
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