Geology category: 1681 books
Advances and Trends in Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics
Proceedings of the 10th International Scientific and Professional Conference on Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics (GCG 2017), October 10-13, 2017, Demänovská Dolina, Low Tatras, Slovakia
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The International Scientific and Professional Conference on Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics 2017 (GCG 2017) was organized under the auspices of the Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice (SK), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice...
Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism
A Long Voyage of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This book is a summary of the history of discovering the moon. The author has been involved in the Apollo program, working with its samples and this book covers these efforts. It describes the analysis methods of lunar samples and their interpretation to understand lunar paleomagnetism. The book has...
by Elena Tolkova
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Using observations of the 2011-Tohoku and some other tsunamis in rivers as a starting point for analytical and numerical exploration, this book suggests a basis for predicting tsunami impacts in a river after the wave has transitioned into the river’s channel.
Advances in Petroleum Engineering and Petroleum Geochemistry
Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The book is of interest to all researchers in the fields of petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering and petroleum geochemistry....
Routine Data Processing in Earthquake Seismology
With Sample Data, Exercises and Software
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The purpose of this book is to get a practical understanding of the most common processing techniques in earthquake seismology. The book deals with manual methods and computer assisted methods. Each topic will be introduced with the basic theory followed by practical examples and exercises. There...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In exploration seismology, data are acquired at multiple source and receiver posi tions along a profile line. These data are subsequently processed and interpreted. The primary result of this process is a subsurface image of the exploration target. As part of this procedure, additional information...
Terra non Firma Earth
Plate Tectonics is a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book summarises research into Expansion Tectonics and is suitable for all persons interested in the geosciences. In this book, modern geological, geophysical, and geographical evidence is used to recreate the entire 4,000 million years of our Earths geological history. This evidence is then used...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Past Glacial Environments, Second Edition, presents a revised and updated version of the very successful first edition of Menzies’ book, covering a breadth of topics with a focus on the recognition and analysis of former glacial environments, including the pre-Quaternary glaciations.
The...
by Achyuta Ayan Misra, Soumyajit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This work reviews the mechanism of rifting with a focus on pre-existing tectonic weaknesses in pre-rift and/or basement rocks, i.e., on tectonic inheritance. The passive margins that are studied in this book are the Norwegian Continental Shelf, the Eastern North America and the East and West Indian...
by K. Bucher, M. Frey
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Metamorphic rocks make up the largest volume of the Earth. They systematically change their mineralogical composition as a result of tecto-thermal events. The outstanding feature of the 7th edition of this book is the large number of phase diagrams showing the stability relations among minerals and...
by Vladislav Shevchenko, Zhanna Rodionova, Gregory Michael
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This book is the first to document in depth the history of lunar and planetary cartography in Russia. The first map of the far side of the Moon was made with the participation of Lomonosov Moscow University (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU) in 1960. The developed mapping technologies were then...
Understanding the Bouguer Anomaly
A Gravimetry Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Understanding the Bouguer Anomaly: A Gravimetry Puzzle addresses the geophysical and geodetic applications of gravity field interpretation, taking into account the evaluation of the Bouguer anomaly. Containing several contributions that deal with persistent questions in gravity data processing and...
Volcanic Hazards
Assessment and Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The contributions in this book were presented, orally or as posters, at the International Volcanological Congress held in New Zealand from 1 to 9 February 1986, the centenary year of the Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886. More than 500 people, from 29 countries, attend ed the Congress. Most of these...