This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience.
Focusing on mountain ranges that are relatively unfamiliar to most geologists, this work expands our view of tectonics beyond a standardized textbook approach and illustrates both the extraordinary variety of mountain ranges over the world through time and many of the basic similarities they display.
Approximately 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the three kilometers of ice that covered Canada, the large European glaciers in Fennoscandia and Siberia, and many other minor glaciers melted quickly.
Somewhere beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, sealed in bubbles no wider than a pencil lead, is air that fell as snow before Homo sapiens existed.
Black Sea Atlantis: The Flood That Forged the Indo-EuropeansAround 5600 BCE, the tranquil freshwater lake that would become the Black Sea was violently transformed.
El presente volumen aborda de una forma global, documentada y actual el impacto que las actividades humanas -y muy especialmente a lo largo de los dos ultimos siglos- vienen dejando en el planeta Tierra en su conjunto, un impacto cuya huella en su superficie ha dado lugar a lo que puede considerarse una nueva era geologica: el Antropoceno.
In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.
'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI'An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its history' PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLDEinstein's Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned to harness the power of heat and ice.
Mind over Magma chronicles the scientific effort to unravel the mysteries of rocks that solidified on or beneath Earth's surface from the intensely hot, molten material called magma.
From an Indiana farm boyhood to uranium surveys in the American West, offshore seismic vessels, Arctic ice, African beaches, Southeast Asian pipeline landfalls, and the long strange business of building a life, Citizen of the World follows a geologist who kept saying yes to the next improbable assignment.
Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Rocky Mountains is a field guide to more than 130 of the most common and sought-after rocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout the Rocky Mountains.
For more than a century, textbooks, universities, encyclopedias, and institutions confidently declared that civilization began in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC.
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindA Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWhat will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now?
'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of WildingA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.
Vinos y vinedos reune una cuidada seleccion de dialogos que acercan el universo de la vitivinicultura a un publico amplio, combinando rigor tecnico con un lenguaje accesible y ameno.
Desde 2010 Descorchados viene ofreciendo la m�s completa de las radiograf�as de la escena argentina de vinos, una foto en gran angular y en HD de lo �ltimo que se debe saber de los vinos del pa�s.
Esta obra presenta los resultados que permitieron proponer el Campo Volcánico Monogenético Guamuez-Sibundoy (CVMGS), ubicado en la región suroccidental de Colombia entre los departamentos de Nariño y Putumayo.
Nicolás Steno puede considerarse uno de los grandes olvidados de la literatura geológica española, ya que no existe ninguna traducción completa de sus obras, a pesar de poder ser considerado junto Hutton, Lyell y Darwin uno de los fundadores de la geología como ciencia.
Vietnam's World Heritage sites represent a profound intersection of deep geological time, ancient cultural traditions, and a spiritual harmony with the natural world.
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En esta obra de divulgación científica converge la ciencia y el arte en la interpretación paleoambiental del miembro superior calcáreo de la Formación Tibasosa.
Bestsellerautor Carsten Henn kann nicht nur kulinarische Kriminalromane, er schreibt auch kriminell gut uber Wein: In seinem neuen Weinbuch schenkt der renommierte Weinjournalist und Weinbauer sein fundiertes fachliches Know-how einzigartig praktisch und unterhaltsam ein: Mit 66 wohldosierten und klug ausgewahlten Fragen nimmt er uns mit in die Welt des Weins.
*LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025**A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2025*'In this poetic and heartfelt journey through deep time, geologist Anjana Khatwa braids scientific knowledge and traditional stories to bring alive the lessons that rock both keeps and tells us - if only we know how to listen.
Geología amigable es una obra de divulgación científica escrita por Julio Emilio Stampone, que reúne artículos originalmente publicados en su blog entre los años 2019 y 2024.
