Sedimentology and pedology

This book provides a thorough grasp of the geology and geophysics of hydrocarbon reserves in the Rajasthan Basins, India, and the latest updates from academicians and researchers in related industrial fields.

Jurassic, basalt, moraine, flint, alluvial, magma: what are these words and what do they have to do with wine?

GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system contains contributions that were presented at the 1st GlobalSoilMap conference, held 7-9 October 2013 in Orl's, France.

Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Crop Productivity and Water examines the greenhouse gas emissions and their warming effect, climate change projections, crop productivity and water.

Ground improvement has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving areas of geotechnical engineering and construction over the past 40 years.

This new book on the sustainable management of insect pests in important vegetables offers valuable management strategies in detail.

A review of clays and clay minerals related to the geological, biological and material sciences in the Critical Zone.

The book summarizes research work on the Wajid Sandstone, which provides integrated field and laboratory data to enable a detailed description of this unit including a facies analysis, porosity data, as well as permeability data to establish aquifer models.

Provides the first comprehensive review of the current state of the science on tills It is critical that glacial scientists continue to refine their interpretations of ancient archives of subglacial processes, specifically those represented by tills and associated deposits, as they form the most widespread and accessible record of processes at the ice-bed interface.

Expansive Soils provides the reader with easy and specific access to problems associated with expansive soils, characterisitics and treatment, and evaluation and remediation.

This book focuses on a significant branch of anthropogeomorphology, which is not adequately studied: the impact of transportation systems on altering earth surface processes and landforms.

Volcanic eruptions are generally viewed as agents of destruction, yet they provide the parent materials from which some of the most productive soils in the world are formed.

Organic farming is not only a philosophy; it is also a well-researched science.

Crop protection is becoming increasingly important due to the need for food security and to meet growing environmental challenges.

Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons.

Worldwide demand for sand and gravel is increasing daily, as the need for these materials continues to rise, for example in the construction sector, in land filling and for transportation sector based infrastructural projects.

The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants.

Plant biotechnology has come of age.

Soil and ecosystem modeling is crucial for managing and comprehending ecological processes and should be required for all studies focusing on agriculture systems, environmental management, environmental sciences, and ecology.

The book discusses a comprehensive overview of various limnological approaches for climate studies, and sheds light on a multi-dimensional approach (i.

The monograph is concerned with results of studies of petrology of mafic-ultramafic massifs as part of the East Sakhalin ophiolite association.

Environmental Sedimentology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly expanding field which addresses the functioning and dynamics of contemporary sediment systems and how these systems respond to a range of both natural and anthropogenically-induced disturbance events.

In the present era, rapid industrialization and urbanization has resulted in unwanted physiological, chemical, and biological changes in the environment that have harmful effects on crop quality and productivity.

World soils contain about 1500 gigatons of organic carbon.

Soil-structure interaction is an area of major importance in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics Advanced Geotechnical Engineering: Soil-Structure Interaction using Computer and Material Models covers computer and analytical methods for a number of geotechnical problems.

This book discusses the entire lithostratigraphy of Iran from the Proterozoic to recent.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

The application of fractals and fractal geometry in soil science has become increasingly important over the last few years.

The chapters in this book cover crop -weather interaction and agro-met observatory, agro-climatic analysis, crop micro-meteorology, remote sensing, crop simulation models, weather codes and their management, integrated weather forecast and agro advisories, climate change, livestock climatology/meteorology and astrometeorology.

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Highway Capacity, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 1991.

This book is intended as a practical handbook for those engaged in the task of analyzing the paleogeographic evolution of ancient sedimentary basins.

Modeling aspects have added a new dimension in research innovations in all branches of engineering.

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions.

Pesticide Interactions in Crop Production: Beneficial and Deleterious Effects evaluates the effects of pesticides on plants by exploring the physical, chemical, biological, and ecological interactions of pesticides that influence a crop.

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.

This book offers as comprehensive an overview as possible of the lithostratigraphy of the Italian region of Sicily, taking into account the multiplicity of formational and terminological variability developed over more than a century of studies and publications.

Soils represent the result of a complex set of interacting processes and are an integral component of the environment.

Written in a clear, accessible style, this book covers the fundamental aspects of soil science with an emphasis on topics useful to landscape architects and professionals in related fields.

Smallholder farmers face relentless challenges from pests, diseases, and the severe impacts of climate change across developing countries.

Physical Nonequilibrium in Soils provides cutting-edge knowledge on physical nonequilibrium phenomena in soils, offering unique insight into the complexity of our physical world.

stable or falling water levels, and permit differen- tiation between gradual and sudden transgression The level of Lake Ontario was long assumed to of the shoreline.

Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems provides information on soil processes and the carbon cycle in cold ecoregions as well as the soil carbon pool and its fluxes in the soils of cold ecoregions.

Wetland identification, although theoretically straightforward, is not cut and dry as a practice.

In the vibrant discourse of urbanization and climate change, Sustainable Urban Agriculture: New Frontiers investigates emerging needs, rising challenges, and opportunities to support urban agriculture.

This book in two volumes, and with a foreword by the renowned Professor M.

Most reported incidents of soil contamination include an array of heavy metals species rather than a single ion.

A concise overview of the basic physics and hydrodynamics of estuaries, with special topics at the forefront of estuarine research.

Grazing lands represent the largest and most diverse land resource-taking up over half the earth's land surface.

Global agriculture is now at the crossroads.

Accretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes.