Sedimentology and pedology

Exchange of information in the field of earth sciences is increasingly needed to stay informed about advances.

This volume, Temperate Fruits: Production, Processing, and Marketing, presents the latest pomological research on the production, postharvest handling, processing and storage, and information on marketing for a selection of temperate fruits.

This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop on "e;Soil Monitoring: Methods for Early Detection and Surveying of Soil Contamination and Degradation"e;, held at the ETH seminar centre "e;Stefano Franscini"e; of Monte Verita, Ascona (Switzerland) from October 18 - 23, 1992.

The origin, dispersal, deposition and burial of natural sediment grains is the central concern of sedimentology.

The concern over groundwater contamination has focused attention on the processes that influence the fate of chemicals in soil water systems.

The first book devoted to the complex interactions between trace elements, soils, plants, and microorganisms in the rhizosphere, Trace Elements in the Rhizosphere brings together the experimental, investigative, and modeling branches of rhizosphere research.

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.

This book highlights a detailed high-resolution palynofacies origin and depositional environment, source rock potential, hydrocarbon migration pathway and structural hydrocarbon entrapment mechanisms of the outcrop lithostratigraphic units of the inland Anambra basin.

Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces contains contributions presented at the 2nd Global Soil Security conference, held 5-6 December 2016 in Paris.

This book presents a complete set of studies of alluvial fan sediments in southern Iran from the point of view of sedimentology, sedimentary geochemistry, tectonics, economic geology, groundwater, geomorphology, hazards and telemetry.

Soils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account of South African soils.

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

This book allows readers to grasp both the fundamentals and the latest technological advances in the field of mine drainage, which is increasingly crucial both environmentally and economically.

Traditional remedial technologies can be cost-prohibitive and sometimes contribute to environmental contamination themselves.

There is an urgent need to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in a sustainable and economically-viable manner.

This book, first published in 1987, contains a collection of papers presented at the 18th Binghamton Symposium, focusing on the topic of catastrophic flooding.

This book, first published in 1986, stems from the 1986 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

This long-needed book highlights how traditional Mexican agriculture has changed according to environmental, climatic, geographical, social and cultural conditions.

Residual soils are found in many parts of the world and are used extensively as construction materials for roads, embankments and dams, and to support the foundations of buildings, bridges and load-bearing pavements.

This volume comprises three parts: 1) from local to global, 2) what type of sustainable management?

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

Spon's Quarry Guide provides complete and up-to-date information on all of Britain's hard rock quarrying industry.

Unknown to most people, there are innumerable microbial species that accomplish vital ecosystem functions while residing in a suspended state in the troposphere or resting on crop canopies.

The first comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to the fast-evolving topic of in-situ produced cosmogenic nuclides, for graduate students and practitioners.

Plant-microbe interaction is a powerful and promising link to mitigate the various kinds of stresses like drought, salinity, heavy metals, and pathogenic effects.

Advanced textbook outlining the physical, chemical, and biological properties of sedimentary rocks through petrographic microscopy, geochemical techniques, and field study.

Boundaries of a wetland must be identified and located in the field by examining three parameters: wetland plants, wetland hydrology, and hydric soils.

With contributions from world-renowned experts in the field, this book explores developments in the transport kinetics, seasonal cycling, accumulation, geochemistry, transformation, and toxicology of arsenic.

This book provides a comprehensive review at the biochemical and molecular level of the processes and techniques that contribute to crop improvement.

An authoritative reference on soil physics, Soil Physics Companion is lavishly illustrated with graphs, charts, line drawings, and equations.

As the demand for healthy and sustainable food options increases, organic farming is becoming a viable alternative to conventional farming practices that traditionally rely heavily on synthetic inputs.

This book provides a holistic guide to the construction of numerical models to explain the co-evolution of landforms, soils, vegetation and tectonics.

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

Abiotic stresses are known to adversely impact agricultural productivity on millions of hectares globally, and it is projected that these problems are likely to increase, primarily due to anthropogenic interventions as well as climatic changes.

This volume provides a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa.

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

This book reviews the developments that have taken place in the field of geotechnical engineering since the first international conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering was held in Harvard University in 1936 until the January 1994 conference in New Delhi, India.

Globally, 30% of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, 54% in 2016 and 66% projected by 2050.

This atlas illustrates the characteristics of present-day bedforms, from the shoreline to deep-sea environments, and it also includes short reviews of the main mechanisms that generate such bedforms.

Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but alsonatural leakage'-90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or domestic use.

There are approximately 500 different soil varieties in Malaysia, most is residual soil and coastal alluvial soil.

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Soil degradation is a widespread problem in Africa resulting in decreased agricultural productivity while demand for food continues to increase.

Vadose Zone Hydrology describes the elements of the physical processes most often encountered by hydrogeologists and ground-water engineers in their vadose zone projects.