Petrology, petrography and mineralogy

Modeling of Magmatic and Allied Processes presents methods and models for the quantification of geological processes.

This collection addresses new research and technology for increased efficiency, energy reduction, and waste minimization in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and recycling.

Preface Uranium is a radioactive element and a heavy metal which is naturally occurring in ground and surface water.

This book presents the materials of the XIII General Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society.

This book is the second volume of an edited work aiming to help novice geologists to explore terrains independently.

This book furnishes detailed information about Turkey's existing mineral resources, besides providing concepts and ideas which may help the search for potential mineral resources in the future.

'Coal' and 'China' to some extent have become synonymous.

​Der ideale Einstieg in die Welt der Fördertechnik flüssiger Rohstoffe

Die Erdkruste enthält viele fließfähige Schätze, ohne die unsere moderne Gesellschaft nicht funktioniert.

The book provides a model for the structural evolution of the Himalaya with relevant background information making it easily accessible to earth scientists specializing in other areas.

This book provides the basic know-how and guidance to effectively exploit non-destructive geophysical technologies and apply them in the underground mining environment to optimise mineral extraction and to contribute to safer mining.

The 30 contributions of this volume cover the main European regions for oil and gas exploration: the North Sea and adjacent areas, the central and eastern Mediterranean including offshore Albania, central and eastern Europe including Poland, Hungary, the Russian platform and offshore Bulgaria.

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

This book is an integrated approach towards the applications of coal (organic) petrology and discusses the role of this science in the field of coal and coal-related topics.

In its relentless pursuit of further knowledge, science tends to compartmentalize.

As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of oil and gas resources.

The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture.

"e;Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth's Critical Zone"e; presents contributions from the 1st International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth's Critical Zone held in Hangzhou, China.

Everyone is familiar with the daily changes of air temperature.

Fifty years after the adoption of the Declaration on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1962, this volume assesses the evolution of the principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources into a principle of customary international law as well as related developments.

First published in 1997.

This book helps a novice to explore the terrain independently.

This book highlights various aspects of geochemical and geological processes.

This book presents general problems in geoarchaeology, and discusses geophysical solutions, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry applications, X-ray and isotope analyses and GIS technologies.

A richly illustrated survey of rock microstructures in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, from basic concepts to cutting-edge research.

This book, first published in 1982, is a collection of articles aimed at advancing the field of geomorphology.

A major reason for the lack of understanding of argillaceous rocks is that the key to understanding their history lies in their microfabric.

This book presents the theory and technologies of drilling operations.

The development of the base-load capable, climate-friendly, and practically inexhaustible source of "e;geothermal energy"e; represents an important pillar of the energy supply of the future.

This book represents a revision and expansion of an earlier set of diagrams for tempera- 0 0 tures from 25 to 300 C along the equilibrium vapor-liquid curve for H 0 (Helgeson, Brown, 2 and Leeper, 1969).

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 presents the first compilation of scientific research on the island of Nisyros, involving various geoscientific disciplines.

This book presents the first overview of the composition and structure of the Earth's lower mantle.

First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on the world's oceans.

Soils of volcanic areas often exhibit unique properties differentiating them from other soils on Earth.

Nowadays, major environmental issues are the object of large public debates de- spite the fact that scientific knowledge is often insufficient to draw unequivocal conclusions.

This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago.

This book, first published in 1985, conveys the flavours of geomorphology and the bases of its ideas.

The feldspars form the most abundant group of minerals in the crust of the Earth and Moon and also occur in many meteo- rites.

The book is the first systematic and comprehensive treatise of stochastic models and computational tools that have emerged in rock-physics in the last 20 years.

In the field of waste disposal, recovery, and recycling, industrial residues from ceramic and mining activities are just an assemblage of minerals.

Discusses the global evolution of the earth, such as core-mantle separation, mantle-crust evolution, origin of ocean-atmosphere system, on the basis of isotope earth science andpaleomagnetism, where recent devlopment in planetology andastrophysical theories are extensively taken into account.