This practical handbook of properties for soils and rock contains in a concise tabular format the key issues relevant to geotechnical investigations, assessments and designs in common practice.
Kriging can be used to determine optimal unbiased predictions for regionalized variables and has been shown to be a powerful tool in slope reliability analysis for reliability-based design.
This informative book offers a comprehensive exploration of critical reservoir parameters, including quantification techniques and interpretations for evaluating these reservoirs.
If you have an interest in geohazards and the repercussions of human intervention, this book will provide you with fresh insights into exciting challenges.
Reviews current understanding of the mechanisms of soil erosion, focussing on water-based and wind-based erosion processes Considers the effectiveness of mitigation measures to reduce soil erosion, including buffer strips, zero/no-tillage and cover crops Addresses recent advances in techniques used to measure, predict, track and model soil erosion, including digital soil mapping and proximal instrumental techniques
If you have an interest in geohazards and the repercussions of human intervention, this book will provide you with fresh insights into exciting challenges.
Con las incorporaciones de Bolivia y Perú, una novedad este año, Descorchados ya cubre a todos los países productores de vinos más relevantes de la escena sudamericana.
This book presents a unique and up-to-date summary of what is known about groundwater on our planet, from a global perspective and in terms of area-specific factual information.
Space Geodesy for Environmental Monitoring Volume, Volume 65 in the Advances in Geophysics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors and covering topics such as GNSS for natural hazard mitigation, Space & Earth Data for Global Sea level change monitoring: Current Approaches, Challenges, and Future Prospects, and Crowdsourcing GNSS for geophysical applications.
Space Geodesy for Environmental Monitoring Volume, Volume 65 in the Advances in Geophysics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors and covering topics such as GNSS for natural hazard mitigation, Space & Earth Data for Global Sea level change monitoring: Current Approaches, Challenges, and Future Prospects, and Crowdsourcing GNSS for geophysical applications.
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Probleme des Krustenbaus und der geotektonischen Entwicklung auf der Geotraverse Baltikum – DDR – Česky massif" verfügbar.
This book looks at the distribution, occurrences, potential and prospects for good governance, transparency and sustainable development of geological resources in Sub-Saharan Africa.
How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts.
Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons.
This comprehensive account of California's numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californians throughout the states history and carries a sobering message about our short disaster memories.
Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earth's forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher levels of waste in the form of greenhouse gases-as well as a diminished capacity of the planet to absorb and store those wastes.
This full color atlas illustrates a range of features not attempted in any general textbook and is designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside the microscope, as an aid to identifying grain types and textures in carbonates.
A step-by-step text on the basic tests performed in soil mechanics, Introduction to Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing provides procedural aids and elucidates industry standards.
Chemistry for Environmental and Earth Sciences focuses on the chemistry and processes behind environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, water pollution, and soil contamination.
El suelo colombiano es donde se afirman las raíces de nuestra nacionalidad y de nuestra soberanía, es la base de nuestro territorio y es, además, el sustento de nuestra fértil y exuberante biodiversidad.
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Klufttektonische Untersuchungen der Nordlausitzer Grauwackenformation unter Berücksichtigung der Gesteinsklüftung des Lausitzer Zweiglimmergranits" verfügbar.
This book analyses the complexities of the rhizosphere ecosystem and discusses the role of insect pheromones in shaping soil health and vermicompost production.
Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data, Third Edition is the latest edition of this popular and authoritative text on Bayesian modeling and inference for spatial and spatial-temporal data.
Includes Illustrative Applications of Practical Design CalculationsWritten in a straightforward style and user-friendly format, Practical Design Calculations for Groundwater and Soil Remediation, Second Edition highlights the essential concepts and important aspects of major design calculations used in soil and groundwater remediation.
Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis: Methods and Applications presents a broad overview of statistical modeling of extreme events along with the most recent methodologies and various applications.
