Romances innumerable have been woven around the flaming guardians of the coast, but it is doubtful whether any purely imaginative work is so fascinating and absorbing as the plain unvarnished narrative of how some famous lightship or lighthouse has been brought into existence.
The Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to reissues of the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect.
This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability?
The quaternary sciences constitute a dynamic, multidisciplinary field of research that has been growing in scientific and societal importance in recent years.
Himalaya, confined between Indus and Brahmaputra rivers and little beyond, is a large geodynamic laboratory of nature where orogen is still in youth to early mature phases of evolution.
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Sea Ice: Physics and Remote Sensing addresses experiences acquired mainly in Canada by researchers in the fields of ice physics and growth history in relation to its polycrystalline structure as well as ice parameters retrieval from remote sensing observations.
Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world s largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector.
L'Amérique ou, pour être plus précis, les Amériques est constituée de trois ensembles présentant des différences marquées, tant dans leurs structures, héritées du passé géologique, que dans leurs géodynamiques actuelles : l'Amérique du Nord et l'Amérique du Sud sont clairement individualisées comme continents ; l'Amérique centrale et le domaine.
Himalaya, confined between Indus and Brahmaputra rivers and little beyond, is a large geodynamic laboratory of nature where orogen is still in youth to early mature phases of evolution.
A decade ago no one except geologists had heard of tantalum or 'coltan' - an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and laptops.
Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current policy has affected arid environments and their populations.
Les États-Unis d'Amérique se classent au quatrième rang mondial par leur superficie (9 385 000 km²) depuis qu'ils ont réuni aux quarante-huit États qui les composaient traditionnellement l'Alaska en 1959 et les îles Hawaii en 1960.
This book covers the more basic aspects of carbonate minerals and their interaction with aqueous solutions; modern marine carbonate formation and sediments; carbonate diagenesis (early marine, meteoric and burial); the global cycle of carbon and human intervention; and the role of sedimentary carbonates as indicators of stability and changes in the Earth's surface environment.
L'usage fait de l'Europe un continent ; en réalité, celle-ci constitue une partie de l'Eurasie, avec laquelle elle est en continuité de l'Ancien Monde – puisque l'Afrique n'est pas complètement séparée de l'Eurasie –, et nombre de ses affinités sont avec le Nouveau Monde, par-delà l'Atlantique.
Sea Ice: Physics and Remote Sensing addresses experiences acquired mainly in Canada by researchers in the fields of ice physics and growth history in relation to its polycrystalline structure as well as ice parameters retrieval from remote sensing observations.
À la surface de la Terre, les zones de relief élevé qui forment ce que l'on appelle des «chaînes de montagnes» constituent un trait morphologique de première importance, comparable à celui des dorsales qui sillonnent le fond des océans.
L'Europe centrale et occidentale contraste avec la plupart des autres masses continentales par le compartimentage de son relief et du tracé de son littoral, compartimentage qui traduit celui de sa structure géologique et explique sans doute certains aspects de son développement historique.
