Geochemistry

This book offers the guidelines on long-term confinement of fine particulate waste products in a safe and environmentally acceptable location.

An concise overview of iron formations as archives of diverse palaeoenvironmental information on early Earth history.

Respiration represents the major area of ignorance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle.

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems describes all of the main Fossil Lagerstatten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) from around the world in a chronological order.

Considering that glaciers and ice sheets cover about 10% of the Earth's land surface in a world where human civilization is increasingly impacted by the effects of changing glacial activity, Colour Atlas of Glacial Phenomena presents itself as an indispensable guide for students, professionals, and researchers who want to be better informed while studying and tracking the future influences of glaciers and ice sheets on the global environment.

Provides state-of-the-art information on all processes currently used to manufacture lubricant base oils and waxes-offering practical, timesaving solutions for specific on-the-job problems.

Fundamental Statistical Concepts and Techniques in the Biological and Environmental Sciences: With jamovi is an introductory textbook for learning statistics.

This is a textbook covering the transition from energy releasing reactions on the early Earth to energy releasing reactions that fueled growth in the first microbial cells.

The management and disposal of radioactive wastes are key international issues requiring a sound, fundamental scientific basis to insure public and environmental protection.

The first edition of this book, popular around the world, is surpassed only by this new Second Edition.

The second edition of Environmental Oceanography is the first textbook to link the needs of the coastal oceanographer and the environmental practitioner.

Introduction to Process Geomorphology provides an integrative approach to the process dynamics and the origin of landforms by the contemporary processes involved in their evolution.

Carbonate rocks (limestones and dolomites) constitute a major part of the geological column and contain not only 60% of the world's known hydrocarbons but also host extensive mineral deposits.

Neville Price presents a major breakthrough in our understanding of the subject of plate tectonics in this new book.

In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules that he had extracted from ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll--presumably from plants that had lived and died millions of years in the past.

30% discount for members of The Mineralogical Society of Britain and IrelandThis text covers the range of microanalytical techniques available for the analysis of geological samples, principally in research applications.

Molecular processes in nature affect human health, the availability of resources and the Earth s climate.

Geochemical methods of prospecting for and evaluation of minerals are applied widely today at all stages of geological exploration.

Practical statistics is a powerful tool used frequently by agricultural researchers and graduate students involved in investigating experimental design and analysis.

When compared to classical sciences such as math, with roots in prehistory, and physics, with roots in antiquity, geographical information science (GISci) is the new kid on the block.

Volume 32 (2013) of the internationally recognized and acclaimed yearbook seriesPalaeoecology of Africa publishes 9 new interdisciplinary scientific papers on former and recent landscape evolution and on past environments of the African continent (e.

This book is the second in a two-volume series that introduces the field of spatial data science.

Every year Earth is bombarded with about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial material.

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Extreme weather and climate change aggravate the frequency and magnitude of disasters.

Dwindling global supplies of conventional energy and materials resources are widely thought to severely constrain, or even render impossible, a "e;first-world"e; lifestyle for the bulk of Earth's inhabitants.

This is a book about the petrology of kimberlites.

This two-volume handbook presents advanced research and operational information about hard minerals and hydrocarbons.

This book focuses on the usage of geothermal energy in countries with low-enthalpy reservoirs.

"e;This book came about because of my poor memory: it is amazing how quickly and easily an experienced electron microscopist/mineralogist can identify minerals with an Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS).

This book honors the career of Professor Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch who was a pioneer and leader in the field of limnogeology since the 1980s.

Based on an American Chemical Society Symposium organized by Professors Glenn Seaborg and Oliver Manuel, this volume provides a comprehensive record of different views on this important subject at the end of the 20th century.

This Element considers selenium isotopes as a paleoenvironmental tracers and what we can learn from isotopic fractionations.

This book provides a detailed description of light absorption and absorbents in seawaters with respect to provenance, region of the sea, depth of the occurrence and trophicity.

Enhanced by photographic illustrations of extraordinary quality, this text should provide students with a complete introduction to the scientific study of environments dominated by snow and ice.

Originally published in 1984.

This book is the first to detail the chemical changes that occur in deforming materials subjected to unequal compressions.

Biomaterials have been used for artificial-organ and bioreactor materials, and have gained importance for enhancement of human welfare.

Fluorescent excitation analysis (FEA) is a technique that has been utilized for some time in physics.

The Equatorial Glaciers of New Guinea includes the Results of the 1971-1973 Australian Universities' Expeditions to Irian Jaya: Survey, Glaciology, Meteorology, Biology and Paleoenvironments.

Scientists have made new inroads in the study of the Earth's deep interior.

Explore the inner workings of environmental processes using a mathematical approach.

Quaternary studies provide the essential context for evaluation of what is happening with the earth's climate today, and to clarify our vulnerability to hazardous natural processes.

Winner of the 2024 De Groot Prize awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds your knowledge of and confidence in making inferences from data.

Inorganic Chemistry for Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences: Fundamentals and Applications discusses the structure, bonding and reactivity of molecules and solids of environmental interest, bringing the reactivity of non-metals and metals to inorganic chemists, geochemists and environmental chemists from diverse fields.

This book is a collection of papers presented in the 30th International Geological Congress, held in Beijing, on mineralogy.

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