Sedimentology and pedology

Los suelos derivados de cenizas volcanicas, cuya muestra representativa son la mayoria de suelos de Popayan, son de mucha importancia ya que se encuentran comunmente en las zonas de mayor densidad poblacional de Colombia, sobre las cuales se cimientan todo tipo de obras de infraestructura.

El país está enfrentado un tema tan crítico como la apertura económica -tratados recién firmados como el TLC con Estados Unidos- obligan a los gremios del sector productivo a ser más competitivos si quieren continuar en el mercado.

The aim of this edited volume is to introduce the scientific community to paleoenvironmental studies of estuaries, to highlight the types of information that can be obtained from such studies, and to promote the use of paleoenvironmental studies in estuarine management.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact.

This book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting sediments fluxes from watershed to worldwide coastal systems.

This volume presents papers on the use of micro-XRF core scanners in palaeoenvironmental research.

This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world's foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic.

The main objective of this book is to present the distribution and diversity of major soil types in Serbia.

estimate tsunami potential by computing seismic moment.

Almost half of all life on earth may exist in the world's forest canopies.

Integrated studies on the assessment and improvement of soil and water quality have to deal almost inevitably with issues of scale, since the spatial support of measurements, the model calculations and the presentation of results usually vary.

Anthropogenic transformation of the coastal zone continues at a steady pace, especially in the developing maritime countries, where coastal resources are often crucial to national economies.

At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship.

As atmospheric CO2 increases there will almost certainly be alterations in soil carbon fluxes.

Geostatistics Rio 2000 includes fifteen contributions, five of which are on applications in petroleum science and ten are on mining geostatistics.

Remote sensing of the environment is covered through spectroscopic analysis of soil and vegetation response during active and passive sensing.

In large parts of the developed and developing worlds soil tillage by plough or hoe is the main cause of land degradation leading to stagnating or even declining production levels and increasing production cost.

Seven original case-studies are presented in this volume, each describing the application of micropaleontology and palynology in applied geology: (1) a study of the modern distribution of coccolith sedimentation in the North Sea and its potential for future application in basin analysis; (2) ostracods are shown to be good paleoenvironmental indicators in the early Cretaceous and Tertiary; (3) a biogenic gas seep in the North Sea is shown to be marked by diagnostic benthonic foraminifera; (4) in the North Sea hydrocarbon exploration, integrated studies of micropaleontology have provided invaluable data; (5) palynofacies analysis are shown to be vital in determining depositional events and hydrocarbon source rock potential; (6) the application of paleontology and sedimentology to sequence stratigraphy is demonstrated in the early Cretaceous; and (7) the application of micropaleontology is shown to be an essential tool in both engineering and economic geology.

It is evident, that for a number of ecological and technical problems in rivers and lakes a better knowledge of sediment transport and sedimentation is needed together with the ability to predict and simulate sediment behaviour.

This is the first book in English reviewing and updating the geology of the whole Apennines, one of the recent most uplifted mountains in the world.

Greenhouse-induced climate warming increasingly appears to be a reality, and the warming climate will be accompanied by an accelerated sea level rise - as much as 60-100 cm over the next century.

Sequence stratigraphy has advanced considerably since the early applications of the concepts on seismic data.

This book is designed for a one-semester course in sedimentology taken by advanced undergraduate or graduate students.

Every little wiggle has a meaning all its own.

Late Cenozoic glaciation directly affected sedimentation on more than half the Earth's continental shelves.

Since 1956 the author has been making extensive and detailed investigations of saline lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.

The study of soil nitrogen has long been an active field, but it was generally pivoted on agricultural and forestry production, and animal husbandry.

Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rift Basins: Red Sea - Gulf of Aden presents new case studies and synthesises the results of recent research on the sedimentological evolution of the Red Sea - Gulf of Aden rift system.

all such systems are important, the Proterozoic column This volume concerns the geology of China, and it examinesthat concern by expositionsofthe stratigraphy, possibly is unique in its continuous sedimentary devel- the paleogeography,and the tectonics ofthat remarkable opment and in its reference section of global rank.

Increasing awareness of the irreversible and long-lasting impacts of deterioration and pollution of soils and sediments has had an important influence on environmental policies and research in the last decade.

The symposium on high salinity tolerant plants, held at the University of Al Ain in December 1990, dealt primarily with plants tolerating salinity levels exceeding that of ocean water and which at the same time are promising for utilization in agriculture or forestry.

This volume contains material first presented at an international workshop on the 'Use of Microorganisms to Combat Pollution', held in Israel, May 10--18, 1992.

This book is concerned almost wholly with a diverse suite of carbonate rocks that were formed near the margins of shallow tropical seas during the last 5-7 million years of the Permian period (300-251 Ma).

Precambrian stromatolites have received in depth, consideration from geologists and paleontologists; they were indeed searching for biosedimentary structures that were sufficiently characteristic and widely distributed to be considered as useful tools for stratigraphic correlation.

This volume summarizes in 16 chapters the petroleum geology of the Bekes basin with respect to its geological setting in the Pannonian Basin.

A sound understanding of the global carbon cycle requires an appreciation of the various physico-chemical and biological processes that determine the production, distribution, deposition and diagenesis of organic matter in the natural environment.

This volume summarizes the results of a survey of British Upper Carboniferous sites, undertaken between 1978 and 1990 as part of the Geological Conservation Review (GCR).

The sustainability of both natural and managed ecosystems is strongly influenced by soil biological processes.

Reservoirs generally consist of sandstones or carbonates exhibiting heterogeneities caused by a wide range of factors.

Collapsing engineering soils are a formidable hazard around the world.

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The purpose of this monograph is to provide participants in my various short courses with a brief statement of the material I cover in my lectures.

apparatus is generally not required for the making of My aim in this book is simple.

There are many natural hazards such as floods, landslides, volcanoes and earthquakes in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Rice production is affected by changing climate conditions and has the dual role of contributing to global warming through emissions of the greenhouse gas methane.