Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

West Africa and the eastern Atlantic stretching from Mauritania in the north to Namibia in the south offer a large latitudinal stretch incorporating nearly symmetrical climatic gradients from the Equator.

Soil in the Environment is key for every course in soil science, earth science, and environmental disciplines.

This book on geology and hydrogeology of carbonate islands is volume 54 in the Developments in Sedimentology series.

Based on the interdisciplinary approaches between earth science, engineering, physical geography, ecology and management, this text focuses on the theoretical questions, case-studies, challenges, and constraints taken from river restoration.

Sediments are a natural part of aquatic systems and they are essential for the hydrological, geomorphological and ecological functioning of those systems.

Earth's Oldest Rocks provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of early Earth, from planetary accretion through to development of protocratons with depleted lithospheric keels by c.

This book presents some fundamental concepts behind the basic theories and tools of discrete element methods (DEM), its historical development, and its wide scope of applications in geology, geophysics and rock engineering.

This book on hydrocarbon exploration and production is the first volume in the series Developments in Petroleum Science.

Covering the more recent advances in Modelling, Planning, Management and Negotiations for Integrated Water Resource Management, this text brings together knowledge and concepts from Hydrology, System Analysis, Control Theory, Conflict Resolution, and Decision and Negotiation Theory.

This volume is for environmental researchers and government policy makers who are required to monitor environmental quality for their environmental investigators and remediation plans.

Drawing on a combination of modern occurrences and likely ancient counterparts, this atlas is a treatise of mat-related sedimentary features that one may expect to see in ancient terrigenous clastic sedimentary successions.

Though largely inaccessible, the geochemistry of Earth's mantle and core can be examined through a wide variety of approaches.

The book is structured thematically, encompassing principles, processes and products, practice and applications.

Volume 5 has several objectives.

Significant refinements of biogeochemical methods applied to mineral exploration have been made during more than twenty years since the last major publication on this technique.

Volume 74 contains six excellent cutting-edge reviews detailing advances in the plant and environmental soil sciences.

This book on well test analysis, and the use of advanced interpretation models is volume 3 in the series Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production.

Many countries in the world have made great efforts, to remedy the water shortage, by providing financial and technical backing, for water desalination, treatment of wastewater and improved management and conservation techniques.

Great loss of human life, structural damage, and social and economic upheaval occur repeatedly due to such natural hazards as earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, landslides, floods and tsunamis.

The nature of global change in the Pacific Basin is poorly known compared to other parts of the world.

Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period.

Environmental Soil Physics is a completely updated and modified edition of the Daniel Hillels previous, successful books, Introduction to Soil Physics and Fundamentals of Soil Physics.

In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.

No fishing job is a welcome operation, but this new edition of a classic reference helps you do the job efficiently and economically.

The book deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen.

The liquid phase of soil (soil solution) is a very thin, penetrating and all-embracing water layer.

Until a few years ago, hydropower, road tunneling and mining were the main fields interested in rock mechanics.

Rock Mass Classifications - A Practical Approach in Civil Engineering was written in response to the many unanswered questions regarding this subject.

This book is the first of three volumes in which the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations has been compiled on a global scale.

Principles of Precambrian Geologyis an update to the 1991 book, Precambrian Geology: The Dynamic Evolution of the Continental Crust, by the same author.

"e;Precambrian Ore Deposits of the East European and Siberian Cratons"e; is a sequel to "e;Precambrian Geology of the USSR"e; published in 1993 (English edition), in which the main emphasis was on the stratigraphy, magmatism and metamorphism of Precambrian assemblages in both ancient cratons (East European and Siberian) as well as in Phanerozoic fold belts and mobile regions.

Damage assessment, rehabilitation, decision-making, social consequences, repair and reconstruction; these are all critical factors for considerations following natural disasters such as earthquakes.

The first volume of the new series, Radioactivity in the Environment, focuses on the environmental occurrence, the speciation, the behaviour, the fate, the applications and the health consequences of that much-feared and much-publicised element, plutonium.

An interesting volume presenting the papers collected for the Festschrift "e;Paradoxes in Modern Geology"e; in honor of Professor Ken Jinghwa Hsu on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

This book includes a selection of oral and poster presentations from "e;Onshore-Offshore Relationships on the Nordic Margin Conference"e; held in Trondheim in 2002.

Our understanding of the subsurface system of the earth is becoming increasingly more sophisticated both at the level of the behaviour of its components (solid, liquid and gas) as well as their variations in space and time.

Muddy coasts are land-sea transitional environments commonly found along low-energy shorelines which either receive large annual supplies of muddy sediments, or where unconsolidated muddy deposits are being eroded by wave action.

Melt inclusions provide a unique record of the physical and chemical processes operating in active magma chambers associated with volcanic systems.

Tremendous progress has been made in the geological understanding of the Korean seas with the advances in sophisticated exploration techniques, specifically in the areas of marine geophysics, sedimentology, geochemistry, and palaeoceanography, since Marine Geology of Korean Seas was first published in 1983.

Magnetic Stratigraphy is the most comprehensive book written in the English language on the subject of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and time scales.

This volume represents an effort to bring together communities of land-based hydrogeology and marine hydrogeology.

Presents readers with an overview of lake management problems and the tools that can be applied to solve probelms.

Volcanic earthquakes represent the main and often the only instrument to forecast volcanic eruptions.

Iceland provides an unique stage on which to study the natural environment, both past and present, and it is understanding both aspects of reconstructing the past and observing and interpreting the present that form the focus of the contributions to this volume.

The Southern Andes, stretching from the subtropics to the subantarctic, are ideally located for palaeoenvironmental research.

This book provides comprehensive information about the water resources of the Arabian Gulf region, an area that is symbolic as an arid to extremely arid belt.

This volume contains 17 selected papers reflecting the flavour of the Norwegian Petroleum Society conference on hydrocarbon seals quantification and showing the recent significant advances in the understanding and application of hydrocarbon seal methodologies.

In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.

(Parent with price) Volume I contains subjective reviews, specialized and novel technique descriptions by guest authors.

Geosciences, Environment and Man has three major objectives, which determine the division in three parts of this volume: I.