Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, deals in general with the structure and function of agroecosystems at different levels of resolution.

In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even going so far as to label the theory "e;unscientific.

This book presents a quantitative treatment of the theory and natural variations of light stable isotopes.

This is a completely revised edition of the previously titled Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System.

The Pleistocene epoch or Ice Age, an extended period of advancing and retreating ice sheets, is characterized by striking climatic oscillations and sea level fluctuations.

This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form.

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists.

The term "e;carbon cycle"e; is normally thought to mean those processes that govern the present-day transfer of carbon between life, the atmosphere, and the oceans.

Chemists have been researching the potential of liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide for environmentally safe applications.

To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken.

Geology and Health is an integration of papers from geo-bio-chemical scientists on health issues of concern to humankind worldwide, demonstrating how the health and well-being of populations now and in the future can benefit through coordinated scientific efforts.

This book is a unique and integrated account of the history of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years.

This book presents a rigorous mathematical development of soil water and contaminant flow in variably saturated and saturated soils.

Geoecology is a fruitful interdisciplinary field, relating rocks to soils to plant and animal communities and studying the interactions between them.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

This new edition includes 10,000 entries which cover all areas of geoscience, including planetary science, oceanography, palaeontology, mineralogy and volcanology.

Learning to draw field sketches is an essential task for geologists, however it is often overlooked.

Marine sediments dominate the global seabed, creating the largest ecosystem on earth.

Ranging across the 4.

Ranging across the 4.

The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it continues today.

The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it continues today.

This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology.

For much of history, soil has played a major, and often central, role in the lives of humans.

For much of history, soil has played a major, and often central, role in the lives of humans.

This book provides a systematic treatment of the geometrical and transport properties of fractures, fracture networks, and fractured porous media.

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability.

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability.

This is the story of a single pebble.

Why do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only in the Antarctic?

What were the landscapes of the past like?

What were the landscapes of the past like?

This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys.

This is the story of a single pebble.

Despite being one of the most successful branches of mainstream archaeology, wetland archaeology, as an academic discipline, is still relatively unknown.

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between aboveground and belowground communities play in regulating the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems, and their responses to global change.

This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth.

Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the earth and the origins of all life on it.

For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging.

What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign?

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of theories and applications in the rapidly expanding field of the crystallography of modular materials.

This book is unique in providing a comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis of what is known about soil biodiversity and the factors that regulate its distribution, as well as the functional significance of below-ground biodiversity for ecosystem form and function.

Finding Time for the Old Stone Age explores a century of colourful debate over the age of our earliest ancestors.

Respiration represents the major area of ignorance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle.

The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many more.

Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the earth and the origins of all life on it.

This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth.

This innovative study presents concepts and problems in soil physics, and provides solutions using original computer programs.

This innovative study presents concepts and problems in soil physics, and provides solutions using original computer programs.

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis draws together topics and methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of archaeological ceramic.