Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system.

This book presents basic information on material science (geochemistry, geophysics, geology, mineralogy, etc.

An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below.

This volume presents information on mineral resources of non-ferrous metals, with a particular emphasis on practices in the former USSR.

This volume celebrates mineral sciences and what are considered the most important progresses and breakthroughs in this discipline.

This book presents a new synthesis of the major metallogenic provinces of Europe and the geodynamic processes involved that can lead to the formation of world-class ore deposits.

A complete, up-to-date guide for forensic engineersFully revised and packed with current case studies, Forensic Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering, Second Edition provides a step-by-step approach to conducting a professional forensic geotechnical and foundation investigation.

In this invaluable book, leading agronomic researchers provide in-depth reviews of present conservation tillage practices in a wide variety of temperate agroecosystems.

This book tells a story of a large lake affected by agricultural and urban activities that have led to severe eutrophication problems with nuisance blue-green algal blooms.

The most recent "e;comprehensive"e; book on the subject of ground water sampling was written by Dr.

This volume has its roots in the distant past of more than 20 years ago, the International Hydrologic Decade (IHD), 1964-1974.

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis.

During the past three decades, urban groundwater has emerged as one of the worlds most pressing issues.

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The Periglacial Environment, Fourth Edition, is an authoritative overview of the world s cold, non-glacial environments.

This book gives an account of a method of determining the type composition of sandy deposits from the air by the nature of their reflection of radiant energy.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the current environmental conditions and chemical changes in Polish surface waters.

This book focuses on Meso- to Neoproterozoic geology and Petroleum resources in China.

This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.

This book will provide a comprehensive discussion of groundwater sustainability, including what it is, how its definition has changed over time, why traditional assessments of it are wrong, how assessments of it are ideally multidisciplinary efforts recognizing that policy is more controlling of outcomes than science, and why achieving it is difficult once pumping exceeds sustainable levels of pumping.

Supply of sufficient clean drinking water is often taken for granted, but it requires a considerable technical and financial effort to ensure reliable and economic water supply.

Understanding attenuation processes is important not only for predicting the behavior of contaminants in soil and formulating remediation strategies, but also for mitigating and enhancing the availability of micronutrients in soil for agricultural applications.

This book explores a new realm in data-based modeling with applications to hydrology.

Paleostress Inversion Techniques: Methods and Applications for Tectonics is an ideal reference for both academic and industry researchers in the Earth Sciences.

Retaining all the material from the second edition and adding substantial new material, this third edition presents models and statistical methods for analyzing spatially referenced point process data.

Dieses Buch beschreibt nicht nur die chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften von Wasser, sondern es nimmt auch Stellung zur Bedeutung des Wassers im Alltag und damit verbundenen politischen und sozialen Herausforderungen.

Destructive plate margin magmagenesis is one of the most intensely studied and widely debated topics in the earth sciences at present.

In this book the author presents the state-of-the-art electromagnetic (EM)theories and methods employed in EM geophysical exploration.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of research to date in the field of stable iron isotope geochemistry.

Reconfigures the anthropology of time by viewing human social life as part of the long-term rhythms of geological formation.

The first edition of Practical Sedimentology contained dis- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS cussions of principles and techniques that could be applied to the analysis of sediments in the field and in laboratories sup- Colleagues at the University of Canterbury and the Univer- plied with inexpensive and commonly available equipment.

This book presents an overview of the fluvial processes theory developed in the former USSR at Lomonosov Moscow State University for the last 50 years, following the famous manuscript by Professor Makkaveev in 1955.

The aim of this comprehenvise book is to present the most important results achieved in the research of the clay minerals palygorskite and sepiolite.

Conventional tillage and burning crop residues has degraded the soil resource base and intensified soil degradation with concomitant decrease in crop production capacity.

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This book is a collection of papers presented in the 30th International Geological Congress, held in Beijing, on global tectonic zones supercontinent formation and disposal.

This classic textbook is an introduction to the systematics and the use of stable isotopes in geosciences.

Dawson worked for the International Boundary Commission and the Geological Survey of Canada.

Desertification has occurred worldwide.

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts.

Elements of Petroleum Geology, Fourth Edition is a useful primer for geophysicists, geologists and petroleum engineers in the oil industry who wish to expand their knowledge beyond their specialized area.

This book presents recent findings from the South Asian region (SA), broadly including groundwater studies on (a) quantity, (b) exploration, (c) quality and pollution, (d) economics, management and policies, (e) groundwater and society, and (f) sustainable sources.

This book is the second volume in a series on montology dedicated to the transdisciplinary reflection of mountain research, considering the diversity of views on mountains and their problemata in the context of rapid technological development and unprecedented accumulation and dissemination of information around the world.

This book is at the center of the UN goals of combining environment and economic development with new technologies.

This book is a product of the joint JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study)/LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone) Continental Margins Task Team which was established to facilitate continental margins research in the two projects.

Numerical models have become much more efficient, making their application to problems increasingly widespread.