Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West.

This book provides a risk-based framework for developing and implementing strategies to manage PCB-contaminated sediments at sites around the country.

This book reviews the U.

Water and other fluids play a vital role in the processes that shape the earth's crust, possibly even influencing earthquakes and volcanism.

This book reviews the adequacy of information available for predicting and managing the environmental and human effects of oil and gas activities on Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

How can the United States meet demands for agricultural production while solving the broader range of environmental problems attributed to farming practices?

This valuable book summarizes recent research by experts from both the natural and social sciences on the effects of population growth on land use.

How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations?

Much of the U.

Understanding the ebb and flow of materials on the earth's surface is vital to comprehending environmental change.

Written by the foremost authorities in the field, this volume brings together the technical papers from which Volume 1 is drawn.

This book discusses the results of the transects program, which involves compilations of maps and cross sections showing geological, geophysical, and geochemical data and interpretations along 23 transects from the continental craton to the oceanic lithosphere around North America.

Aggressive, effective safety inspection programs are key elements to ensuring that oil- and gas-producing platform operations on the outer continental shelf are conducted in a safe and environmentally sound manner.

There is broad agreement in the scientific community that the solid earth beneath the Arctic Ocean basin contains answers to major unsolved problems in the earth sciences and that many of these pertain to questions that are of global scientific significance or pressing societal concern.

This volume explores and evaluates the development, multiple applications, and usefulness of four-dimensional (space and time) model assimilations of data in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences and projects their applicability to the earth sciences as a whole.

Research Opportunities in Geography at the U.

This book presents the proceedings of an August 1990 forum held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.

EarthScope is a major science initiative in the solid-earth sciences and has been described as "e;a new earth science initiative that will dramatically advance our physical understanding of the North American continent by exploring its three-dimensional structure through time"e;.

This book details the forum that was held by the National Materials Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences.

In order to answer important questions about ecosystems and biodiversity, scientists can look to the past geological recordwhich includes fossils, sediment and ice cores, and tree rings.

This book recommends research priorities and scientific approaches for global change research.

Approximately 70 percent of the world's population is concentrated in the coastal borderlands, which geologists recognize to be the present continental margins.

The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined.

This new volume is the first independent analysis of an important national data base, the National Resources Inventory.

The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is scheduled to become operational in 2004.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge related to concerns about methylmercury (MeHg) in the soil-rice system.

The climate record for the past 100,000 years clearly indicates that the climate system has undergone periodicand often extremeshifts, sometimes in as little as a decade or less.

The destructive force of earthquakes has stimulated human inquiry since ancient times, yet the scientific study of earthquakes is a surprisingly recent endeavor.

This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a peer-reviewed program open to all researchers in another agency.

Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction (liquefaction) is a leading cause of earthquake damage worldwide.

Fractured rock is the host or foundation for innumerable engineered structures related to energy, water, waste, and transportation.

Permafrost is a thermal conditionits formation, persistence and disappearance are highly dependent on climate.

Science is increasingly driven by data, and spatial data underpin the science directions laid out in the 2007 U.

There is little dispute within the scientific community that humans are changing Earth's climate on a decadal to century time-scale.

Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West.

EarthScope is a major science initiative in the solid-earth sciences and has been described as "e;a new earth science initiative that will dramatically advance our physical understanding of the North American continent by exploring its three-dimensional structure through time"e;.

Research Opportunities in Geography at the U.

This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a peer-reviewed program open to all researchers in another agency.

This book reviews the U.

This book details the forum that was held by the National Materials Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences.

The destructive force of earthquakes has stimulated human inquiry since ancient times, yet the scientific study of earthquakes is a surprisingly recent endeavor.

In order to answer important questions about ecosystems and biodiversity, scientists can look to the past geological recordwhich includes fossils, sediment and ice cores, and tree rings.

The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is scheduled to become operational in 2004.

Like ocean beaches, sheltered coastal areas experience land loss from erosion and sea level rise.

During geologic spans of time, Earth's shifting tectonic plates, atmosphere, freezing water, thawing ice, flowing rivers, and evolving life have shaped Earth's surface features.

Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, Volume Two: Building Transformative Resilience in Mountain Regions Worldwide presents an overview of the relevant research in mountain regions worldwide, identifies existing challenges, and provides an understanding of the diversity of mountain ecosystems in different regions.

During geologic spans of time, Earth's shifting tectonic plates, atmosphere, freezing water, thawing ice, flowing rivers, and evolving life have shaped Earth's surface features.

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor.