Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

This book looks at the field of fine arts, design and culture as an alternative source of inspiration for ways to work.

Environmental geology is an applied science concerned with the practical application of the principles of geology in the solving of environmental problems.

Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.

This book is concerned almost wholly with a diverse suite of carbonate rocks that were formed near the margins of shallow tropical seas during the last 5-7 million years of the Permian period (300-251 Ma).

Wetland ecosystems maintain a fragile balance of soil, water, plant, and atmospheric components in order to regulate water flow, flooding, and water quality.

Seismic Data Analysis Techniques in Hydrocarbon Exploration explains the fundamental concepts and skills used to acquire seismic data in the oil industry and the step-by-step techniques necessary to extract the sections that trap hydrocarbons as well as seismic data interpretation skills.

This volume delves into a spectrum of theoretical as well as applied aspects of high-resolution stratigraphic approaches in paleontology.

Desertification has occurred worldwide.

An integrated view of the current and emerging methods and concepts applied in soil carbon research.

Uranium Deposits of the World, in three volumes, comprises an unprecedented compilation of data and descriptions of the uranium regions in Asia, USA, Latin America and Europe.

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.

This volume is a tribute to Professor Otto Hutzinger, the founding editor of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, in recognition of his pioneering work and contribution to our understanding of the sources, fate, exposure and effects of persistent organic pollutants.

This volume is the record of a three day symposium entitled "e;Organic Geochemistry in Exploration of the Norwegian Shelf"e;, which was sponsored by the Norwegian Petroleum Society (Norsk Petroleumsforening) and held at the Rogalands Regional College, Stavanger on 22-24 October 1984.

Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on human health including the long history of clays used as pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their structural properties and modes of action.

Natural gas is the world s cleanest fossil fuel; it generates less air pollution and releases less CO2 per unit of useful energy than liquid fuels or coals.

This proceedings volume includes selected papers presented at the international symposium `Live Food Organisms in Marine Larviculture' held in Nagasaki, Japan, September 1-4 1996.

Elegant, novel explanation of climate change, emphasizing physical understanding and concepts, while avoiding complex mathematics, supported by excellent color illustrations.

​Kohlendioxid ist eine bedeutende Verbindung in unserer Atmosphäre.

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries.

A concise guide to the origins and prediction of subsurface fluid pressures, emphasizing the interactions with geological processes.

By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such as urban and rural; past and present; aesthetics and ecology; beautiful and productive, but rather prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing.

Land degradation and desertification are amongst the most severe threats to human welfare and the environment, as they affect the livelihoods of some 2 billion people in the worlds drylands, and they are directly connected to pressing global environmental problems, such as the loss of biological diversity or global climate change.

This book is based on satellite image processing, focusing on the potential of hyperspectral image processing (HIP) research with a case study-based approach.

This edited book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 1st MedGU Annual Meeting, Istanbul 2021.

This Element considers selenium isotopes as a paleoenvironmental tracers and what we can learn from isotopic fractionations.

This book describes the interrelationship between the spectacular geology of an area of East Africa that includes a branch of the rift valley, as well as giant freestanding ice-capped mountains and extraordinarily toxic, alkaline lakes, and some of the greatest concentrations of wildlife on Earth.

This book provides an important reference guide to pollen and spore identification for Chinese Quaternary palynological studies.

This book focuses on the status quo and the latest information on the water-soil-agriculture nexus in the MENA countries.

Geochemistry of Earth Surface Systems offers an interdisciplinary reference for scientists, researchers and upper undergraduate and graduate level geochemistry students a sampling of articles on earth surface processes from The Treatise on Geochemistry that is more affordable than the full Treatise.

The promontory of Gargano in the southern Adriatic Sea represents one of the most interesting Italian coastal zones subjected to tsunami hazard.

Principles and Standards for Measuring Net Primary Production in Long-Term Ecological Studies is the first book to establish a standardized method for measuring net primary productivity (NPP) in ecological research.

This volume presents an exhaustive overview of major orebodies and mineral deposits of North Africa.

Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.

Deformations of an Elastic Earth

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists.

Water is one of the most critical resources of nature that is necessary for sustaining life for all living things.

Plant Transformation via Agrobacterium Tumefaciens compiles fundamental and specific information and procedures involving in vitro soybean transformation, which forms the basis for the Agrobacterium-mediated genetic manipulation of soybean using plant tissue culture.

The book presents the cyclicity and micro-cyclicity phenomena which occurred during climate changes and during marine transgressions and regressions.

"e;Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting,"e; writes Doug Macdougall.

This book discusses the relationship between geology and fighting during the American Civil War.

Seit dem Erscheinen der letzten ähnlichen deutschsprachigen Publikation sind Jahrzehnte vergangen.

Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in the pacific northwest region.

From the geological mysteries of shale formations to cutting-edge techniques in gas extraction, this book unveils the essential knowledge to harness the potential of shale gas.