Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

From gray whales giving birth in the lagoons of Baja California to sea otters nestled in kelp beds off California to killer whales living around Vancouver Island-this spectacular stretch of the Pacific Coast boasts one of the most abundant populations of sea mammals on earth.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

This book describes the mineralization process of barite-fluorite deposits in southeastern Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China.

Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences?

This book focuses on reservoir surveillance and management, reservoir evaluation and dynamic description, reservoir production stimulation and EOR, ultra-tight reservoir, unconventional oil and gas resources technology, oil and gas well production testing, and geomechanics.

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

Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History incorporates new findings on taxonomy, classification and biostratigraphy of foraminifera.

The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences.

This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play a key role in understanding volcanic and magmatic processes throughout the eruption cycle.

When interpreting environmental data, scientists and engineers first must select the correct statistical tool to use for their analysis.

This monograph was begun with two objectives in mind.

Research into the anthropogenic and taphonomic processes that affect the formation of maritime archaeological resources has grown significantly over the last decade in both theory and the analysis of specific sites and associated material culture.

This book provides the basic know-how and guidance to effectively exploit non-destructive geophysical technologies and apply them in the underground mining environment to optimise mineral extraction and to contribute to safer mining.

and their identification obviates individual thermochemical studies on every genus.

A modern, quantitative, process-oriented approach to geomorphology and the role of Earth surface processes in shaping landforms, starting from basic principles.

The material in this book is based upon a two-day workshop on solid state physical sensors for biomedical applications held in Huron, Ohio, December 8-9, 1977.

The United Nations has declared 2018-2028 as the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development.

This book includes a complete background on geophysical methods of exploration, practices, and case histories for a better understanding of the subject of geophysics and its applicability in diverse fields of exploration.

A new edition of a classic text introducing metamorphic rocks and how they form, in full colour and thoroughly updated.

Sind wir allein im Universum?

Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient.

Using Geochemical Data brings together in one volume a wide range of ideas and methods currently used in geochemistry, providing a foundation of knowledge from which the reader can interpret, evaluate and present geochemical data.

This book focuses on the near total attrition of African American students from school music programmes and the travesty of democratic education that it symbolizes.

The book is a thorough presentation of theoretical and applied aspects of the evaporation and evapotranspiration process supported by data from experimental studies.

Rifted margins mark the transition between continents and oceans, which are the two first-order types of land masses on Earth.

A thorough overview of gravity-driven groundwater flow, illustrated with practical examples, from one of the founding fathers of the field.

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today.

Image Analysis in Earth Sciences is a graduate level textbook for researchers and students interested in the quantitative microstructure and texture analysis of earth materials.

Archaeoseismic research provides data and information on past earthquakes but is limited by the lack of ongoing discussions about methodology.

The book is based on stochastic theory of sediment motion, particularly the theory of transition intensities.

This collection presents papers from a symposium on extraction of rare metals as well as rare extraction processing techniques used in metal production.

This book examines the nature of flood in different landscapes and the various factors that contribute to flooding in different areas.

This tutorial provides the application of the coupling interface OGS#IPhreeqc (open-source scientific software) to model reactive mass transport processes in environmental subsurface systems.

Finite Element Simulation in Surface and Subsurface Hydrology provides an introduction to the finite element method and how the method is applied to problems in surface and subsurface hydrology.

This book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 2nd MedGU Annual Meeting, Marrakesh 2022.

"e;Data-Driven Modeling: Using MATLAB(R) in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering"e; provides a systematic account of major concepts and methodologies for data-driven models and presents a unified framework that makes the subject more accessible to and applicable for researchers and practitioners.

The papers in this volume provide a unified approach to the design of underground structures in stratified coal and mineral deposits.

As a final product of the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) Project 217, this volume brings together significant advances in the understanding of Proterozoic crustal evolution.

This book examines and summarizes data on more than 40,000 diamonds from deposits in Russia's diamondiferous Arkhangelsk province.

Readings from the Treatise on Geochemistry offers an interdisciplinary reference for scientists, researchers and upper undergraduate and graduate level geochemistry students that is more affordable than the full Treatise.

The book provides a characteristic of sulfate karst, the features of its distribution and development in the Perm region, based on their own research and generalization of data accumulated in recent years.

This book provides an in-depth description of water resources of Turkey, a country with a unique geographical location, extending from the Mediterranean in Europe to the Middle East.

This book addresses the importance of soil processes in the global carbon cycle.

One major goal of the World Materials Research Institute Forum - WMRIF is to promote young scientists in the field of materials science and engineering.

In the last one hundred years, a number of catastrophic events associated with rockslide dam formation and failure have occurred in the mountain regions of the world.

This textbook, now in its second English edition, is originally a translation of the G- man textbook "e;Rechnen fur Lagerstattenkundler und Rohstoffwirtschaftler, Teil 1"e;, also translated into the Chinese and Russian languages.

This book provides a new data augmentation method based on the local stochastic distribution patterns in natural time series data of global and regional seismicity rates and their correlated seismicity rates.

In the last forty years, at least fifty books have been written on the subject of soil mechanics, most of them textbooks.

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