Geochemistry

This volume focuses on the engineering geological and environmental problems of major engineering works, rock and soil properties, and protection of the geoenvironment and reduction of geohazards, reflecting the major achievements and advancement of engineering geological science and technology.

Learn the secrets of soil chemistry and its role in agriculture and the environment.

When Darwin wrote his Origin of Species, one of his main concerns was with the perceived shortness of the fossil record of life.

This textbook is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students majoring in Earth Sciences.

A broad, clear introductory textbook on chemical oceanography for undergraduate and graduate students and a reference text for researchers.

The material in this book is based upon a two-day workshop on solid state physical sensors for biomedical applications held in Huron, Ohio, December 8-9, 1977.

This book describes for the first time the complexity of the Northeastern Transbaikalia province of Russia.

This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs.

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

The use of statistics is fundamental to many endeavors in biology and geology.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry.

Granites are emblematic rocks developed from a magma that crystallized in the Earth's crust.

OPEC and the World's Energy Future offers a complete account of OPEC's past, present, and possible future in relation to economic, political, and technological changes.

A compact and easy-to-use compilation of fundamental facts and figures about the Earth - for students, researchers and professionals.

Summarizes major temporal trends evident in Proterozoic biomarker distributions and relate to changing marine communities and environments.

Paleolimnology is a rapidly developing science that is now being used to study a suite of environmental and ecological problems.

Earth is home to an estimated 8 million animal species, 600,000 fungi, 300,000 plants, and an undetermined number of microbial species.

Modeling hydrologic changes and predicting their impact on watersheds is a dominant concern for hydrologists and other water resource professionals, civil and environmental engineers, and urban and regional planners.

The authors have done an outstanding job of compiling decades of data collected by their own field reconnaissance and other geoscientists.

Advances in Subsurface Contamination of Porous Media: Indicators, Processes and Modelling provides a high level understanding of the processes concerning common and emergent contaminants through their passage from soil to groundwater.

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry, the impacts can be profound.

Statistical Methods for Field and Laboratory Studies in Behavioral Ecology focuses on how statistical methods may be used to make sense of behavioral ecology and other data.

The impacts of natural and man-made disasters have increased exponentially over the past few decades.

This book is a contribution to the International Year of Planet Earth arising from the 33rd International Geological Congress, held in Oslo, Norway during August 2008.

How desert dunes are formed, how they change, their environmental significance and the role of climate change - these issues are examined through extensive case studies drawn from South Africa, India, Northern Europe and Australia.

This book presents the fundamental principles of Classical thermodynamics, supplemented by  an overview of Statistical Thermodynamics, and explores their applications to a wide variety of problems in the Earth and Planetary sciences, spanning the range from the Earth's core, mantle and crust, aqueous solutions and fluid-rock interactions to solar nebula, terrestrial planets and asteroids.

This book details both conventional and advanced geophysical techniques with description of the Electromagnetic (EM) based physics involved in different methodologies of magnetotellurics (MT).

A textbook on chemical oceanography with full coverage of the marine carbon cycle.

Framboids may be the most astonishing and abundant natural features you've never heard of.

Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems presents current statistical research issues on spatio-temporal data modeling and will promote advances in research and a greater understanding between the mechanistic and the statistical modeling communities.

Framboids may be the most astonishing and abundant natural features you've never heard of.

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today.

This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming.

Environmental Mineralogy and Bio-Geochemistry of Arsenic provides a comprehensive understanding of arsenic geochemistry in the near-surface environment.

This book provides a detailed coverage of the landforms of the earth and the processes that shaped them.

Examines how local and global carbon isotopic signatures of carbonate platform environments are preserved in ancient stratigraphic records.

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art synthesis of biogeochemical dynamics and the impact of human alterations at major river-coastal interfaces for advanced students and researchers.

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

Despite advances in modeling, such as graphical user interfaces, the use of GIS layers, and databases for developing input files, the approaches to modeling phosphorus (P) have not changed since their initial development in the 1980s.

This book presents a quantitative treatment of the theory and natural variations of light stable isotopes.

This book is a "e;Big History"e; of the evidence regarding how we came to be.

Knowledge of the basic interactions that take place between geological materials and different substances is the first step in understanding the effects of adsorption and other interfacial processes on the quality of rocks and soils, and on driving these processes towards a beneficial or neutral result.

This edited book is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-2), Tunisia, in 2019.

In the first two chapters of this book there is information about the needs and potential applications of indwelling transducers both present and past, and will go into detail about many topics such as the fundaments of blood pressure transducers, studies of the intestinal motility and clinical aspects of cardiovascular pressure measurements.

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

The sources, distribution, toxicity and management of environmental contaminants, from molecular interactions to ecological effects.

Expert perspectives on SDI theory and practiceThe spatial data infrastructure (SDI) concept continues to evolve and become an increasingly important element of the infrastructure that supports economic development, environmental management, and social stability.

Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota.

This book aims to map the Precambrian basement, to recognize the paleo-suture zones, and to determine the nature of ancient tectonic regime.