Geomorphology and geological surface processes

This book provides state-of-the-art guidance on groundwater modelling to meet the challenges of water management in arid and semi-arid areas.

A concise guide to the origins and prediction of subsurface fluid pressures, emphasizing the interactions with geological processes.

An All-Inclusive Guide to Efficient, Cost-Effective Management of Groundwater Resources Groundwater Sustainability is a reliable, one-stop guide containing all the information you'll need to succeed in your groundwater management and development projects.

This book, first published in 1986, collects the articles presented to the 16th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium and is a ground-breaking work in the study of hillslope processes.

A modern quantitative approach to structural geology and tectonics for advanced students and researchers.

The Almer a Province of SE Spain, a semi-arid, tectonically active region, is the focus of a wide range of scientific teaching and research in the earth sciences by universities and associated bodies from around the world.

This book offers the scientific basis for the ample evaluation of badland management in India and some surrounding regions.

Gas Well Testing Handbook deals exclusively with theory and practice of gas well testing, pressure transient analysis techniques, and analytical methods required to interpret well behavior in a given reservoir and evaluate reservoir quality, simulation efforts, and forecast producing capacity.

Vertisols, one of the eleven established soil orders, are clay soils with unusual and interesting properties.

The book presents a general to detailed perspective of the most updated geomorphological works in Costa Rica.

Steve Hencher presents a broad and fresh view on the importance of engineering geology to civil engineering projects.

This book presents the geomorphological diversity of England and Wales.

Geomorphology, the discipline which analyzes the history and nature of the earth's surface, deals with the landforms produced by erosion, weathering, deposition, transport and tectonic processes.

Originally published in 1995, Monitoring Active Volcanoes is a comprehensive text which addresses the importance of volcano surveillance in the context of forecasting eruptive activity and mitigating its effects.

In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation-nearly three billion years ago-to the present.

A research summary of the causes and effects of megaflooding on Earth and Mars, for hydrologists, planetary scientists and engineers.

Textbook for graduate students and an introduction for researchers to coastal basins through simple hydrodynamics.

This book, first published in 1985, arises from the 14th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

Introduction to geologic fracture mechanics covering geologic structural discontinuities from theoretical and field-based perspectives.

Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates.

A major update of this classic reference text on earthquakes and faulting with a wealth of new topics and observations.

This book explores fluvial processes and their consequences on river dynamics in India.

An essential introduction to the study of estuaries, highlighting their immense spatial and temporal variability.

Originally published in 1915, The Natural Theology of Evolution looks at the concept of natural theology, examining the argument for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experiences of nature.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the strengths and limits of the interdisciplinary methods that work together to form the geohistorical approach to geographical and geological sciences.

This book, first published in 1986, collects the articles presented to the 16th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium and is a ground-breaking work in the study of hillslope processes.

About one-third of the Earth's land surface experiences a desert climate, and this area supports approximately 15% of the planet's population.

This book, first published in 1980, collects together thirteen articles on 'Geomorphology in Arid Regions'.

This book, first published in 1978, provides a comprehensive guide to soil properties in any major world region.

Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume 'Water, Earth and Man' (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography.

This book, first published in 1982, forms the proceedings volume of the 11th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current policy has affected arid environments and their populations.

This book explains modern concepts of geomorphology in the humid and arid tropics, for advanced students and researchers/environmental managers.

IAS Special Publication 35, Fluvial Sedimentology VII, comprises of a series of peer-reviewed papers that were initially presented at the 7th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, held in Lincoln, Nebraska on August 6-10, 2001.

This book focuses on sediments as a pollutant in natural freshwater and marine habitats, and as a vector for the transfer of chemicals such as nutrients and contaminants.

The movement of sediment and associated pollutants over the landscape and into water bodies is of increasing concern with respect to pollution control, prevention of muddy floods and environmental protection.

The Brazilian Northeast, comprising 1,600,000 km2 and nine States (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceara, Maranhao, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe), has an enormous diversity of geomorphological landscapes.

This book, first published in 1984, has both a geomorphic and a hydrologic message.

This book, first published in 1977, is a concise, fully illustrated introduction to modern geomorphology.

This book, first published in 1980, collects together thirteen articles on 'Geomorphology in Arid Regions'.

Time is a central feature of geomorphological research, and is used in this book (first published in 1977) to provide a conceptual framework within which to consider and compare old and new approaches to the field of geomorphology.

The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless.

Cyclic Development of Sedimentary Basins presents the controversial subject of the cyclic phenomena in the earth's evolutionary history and its reflection in the development of sedimentary basins and its lithic infillings.

Fluid Physics in Geology is aimed at geology students who are interested in understanding fluid behavior and motion in the context of a wide variety of geological problems, and who wish to pursue related work in fluid physics.

Originally published in 1915, The Natural Theology of Evolution looks at the concept of natural theology, examining the argument for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experiences of nature.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the strengths and limits of the interdisciplinary methods that work together to form the geohistorical approach to geographical and geological sciences.

This book, first published in 1986, is an excellent introduction to the main topics of economic and applied geology for undergraduate students of geology, geophysics, mining geology and civil engineering.

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands.

The Zambezi river basin is the fourth largest river basin in Africa and drains a total of some 1350.