Geology category: 1681 books
Mammal Phylogeny
Mesozoic Differentiation, Multituberculates, Monotremes, Early Therians, and Marsupials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The roots of this book and its sister volume, Mammal Phylogeny: Placentals, go back to discussions and plans, shelved for a while, between F. S. Szalay and W. P. Luckett during the international and multidisciplinary symposium on rodent evolution sponsored by NATO, July 2-6, 1984, in Paris. That conference,...
by Mohammed Rashad Moufti, Károly Németh
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This book records the geoheritage values of globally significant, yet little-known, volcanic geosites in Saudi Arabia. It is the first of its kind to focus on the Middle East, clearly showing the hidden geoheritage value of the volcanic Arabian Peninsula’s harrats and demonstrating why the Saudi...
The Great American Biotic Interchange
A South American Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
South American ecosystems suffered one of the greatest biogeographical events, after the establishment of the Panamian land bridge, called the “Great American Biotic Interchange” (GABI). This refers to the exchange, in several phases, of land mammals between the Americas; this event started during...
Weighing the World
The Quest to Measure the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere...
Advanced Water Injection for Low Permeability Reservoirs
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Concise and readable, Water Injection For Low Permeability Reservoirs provides operators with the proper workflow systems and engineering techniques for designing, planning and implementing water injection systems that will improve recovery factors. When used in low permeability or ultra-low permeability...
Handbook of Flotation Reagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice
Volume 3: Flotation of Industrial Minerals
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Handbook of Flotation Reagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice is a condensed form of the fundamental knowledge of chemical reagents commonly used in flotation and is addressed to the researchers and plant metallurgists who employ these reagents. This book consists of three distinct parts: part 1...
Neotectonism in the Indian Subcontinent
Landscape Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
An erudite work on tectonic resurgence in Late Quaternary time of the Indian subcontinent embracing India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh, Neotectonism in the Indian Subcontinent dwells on the causes and consequences of tectonic events that fashioned the landscape of a land characterized...
by P. S. Saklani
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Now Fourth Volume is in your hands. The response of the previous volumes was very encouraging and in this volume the contributions are complimentary to the research papers of the previous volumes and many new concepts pertaining to Himalayan evolution, glaciation, micro-palaeontology, seismicty, geochemistry...
Stone in Architecture
Properties, Durability
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The weathering of historical buildings and, indeed, of monuments and sculptures of natural stone is a problem that has been encountered for hundreds of years. However a dramatic increase in deterioration in the structure of our built heritage has been observed during the past century. To understand...
by Petar Milanović
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Karst terrains have been modified and adapted through a range of human activities as the need for flood control, irrigation, food production, hydropower production and other resources has increased. Successful reclamation projects require construction of dams and reservoirs. Karst terrains present...
Geoheritage
Assessment, Protection, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
For the last 20 years there has been a growing interest in the geosciences for topics related to geoheritage: geoconservation, geotourism and geoparks. Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection, and Management is the first and only reference book to cover these main topics as well as the relationship of...
Monitoring and Modelling Dynamic Environments
(A Festschrift in Memory of Professor John B. Thornes)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The Times (Obituaries, 4 August 2008) reported that “John Thornes was one of the most eminent and influential physical geographers of his generation.” John’s keen interest in understanding landform processes and evolution was furthered through a variety of methods and informed across a range...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2008
The book concentrates on hydrological and geomorphological processes in mountain rivers with the majority of the contributions focusing on the Alps. Methods and results of research in solid load transport and river bed dynamics are presented by international authors. The authors come from earth science...
by Robert Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Providing the first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, this book focuses on those described as 'seismic time bombs' – with the potential to destroy large cities in the developing world such as Port au Prince, Kabul, Tehran and Caracas. Leading international earthquake expert, Robert Yeats,...