Geology category: 1681 books
by Yu-Pin Lin
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This book presents investigations on the Earth's seismic structure using both active-source and natural earthquake records. It discusses the ground-truth data obtained from the TAiwan Integrated GEodynamics Research (TAIGER) active-source experiments that provides excellent and unique insights into...
by Ricardo A. S. Ramalho
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Hotspots are enigmatic surface features that are not easily explained in the framework of plate tectonics. Investigating their origin is the goal of this thesis, using field evidence collected in the Cape Verde Islands, a prominent hotspot archipelago in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The approach taken...
by John J. W. Rogers, M. Santosh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinents frames that controversy by giving all the necessary background on how continental crust is formed,...
Poás Volcano
The Pulsing Heart of Central America Volcanic Zone
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
This book provides a comprehensive description of the volcanological, petrological and geochemical features of the Poás Volcano (Costa Rica), one of the most active volcanic systems in Central America and part of the Central America Volcanic Arc (CAVA). Poás Volcano hosts a unique sulfur lake, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book presents recent findings on the structure and evolution of the Southern Andes. Through a detailed description of a series of orogenic segments reviewed by the different groups that have worked with structural and geophysical tools in each area over the last several years, it illustrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Terrestrial Heat Flow and the Lithosphere Structure summarizes current problems of analyzing related data. The individual chapters are written by leading scientists in geothermics, and are arranged in three sections: - General Lithospheric Geothermics - Regional Lithospheric Geothermics - Worldwide...
Shapes and Dynamics of Granular Minor Planets
The Dynamics of Deformable Bodies Applied to Granular Objects in the Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics of deformable solid bodies. These methods are then employed to small bodies in the Solar System. With several space missions underway and more being planned, interest in our immediate neighbourhood...
Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland
Outer Western Carpathian Earthquake of December 3, 1786, and First Macroseismic Maps in 1858-1901
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
This book examines old and new data on some of the 18th and 19th century earthquakes that either occurred or were clearly felt in southern regions of Poland. Particular emphasis is put on a detailed study and reinterpretation of the unusually severe Outer Western Carpathians earthquake on December...
The Cordilleran Miogeosyncline in North America
Geologic Evolution and Tectonic Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Proterozoic-Phanerozoic...
Risk Assessment of Storms in Coastal Zones: Case Studies from Cartagena (Colombia) and Cadiz (Spain)
Risk Assessment of Storms in Coastal Zones: Case Studies from Cartagena (Colombia) and Cadiz (Spain)
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This book assists the reader in determining storm risks, focussing on sandy coasts and cliff coasts in the context of expected sea level rise from littoral transformation and climate change. It examines storm impacts through matrixes concerning physical parameters, socio-economic activities, ecological...
GlobalSoilMap - Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe
Proceedings of the Global Soil Map 2017 Conference, July 4-6, 2017, Moscow, Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
GlobalSoilMap: Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe contains contributions that were presented at the 2nd GlobalSoilMap conference, held 4-6 July 2017 in Moscow, Russian Federation. These contributions demonstrate new developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil mapping technology...
Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces
Proceedings of the Global Soil Security 2016 Conference, December 5-6, 2016, Paris, France
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Soil, this highly pressurized and crucial resource, is indispensable partner to meet sustainable development goals. The demonstration is done by linking businesses, practitioners, policymakers and researchers on soil security dimensions through good working practices, business solutions, scientific...
by Yin-can YE
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Marine Geo-Hazards in China*,* the first book to focus specifically on potential marine geological hazards in China, includes 19 chapters with varying focus on key issues surrounding the topic.
Early chapters discuss the historical background, research progress, and geological environments...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In this book, contributors from diverse backgrounds take a first step toward an integrated view of reefs and the significance of their recent decline. More than any other earth system, coral reefs sit at a disciplinary crossroads. Most recently, they have reached another crossroads - fundamental changes...