Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

This 2002 book provides a cultural and ecological history of European impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person.

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In spite of many years of intensive study, our current abilities to quantify and predict contaminant migration in natural geological formations remain severely limited.

This book is based on over 150 scientific papers about the Dogu'a Tembien district in Ethiopia.

Lakes and coastal wetlands all over the world are ideal places for human habitation, fisheries, industries, shipping and recreation.

Do you know silica, the tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen constituting the crystals of New Agers and the desiccant in a box of new shoes?

The modern geological sciences are characterized by extraordinarily rapid progress, as well as by the development and application of numerous new and refined methods,most of them handling an enormous amount of data available from all the continents and oceans.

This book offers a unique and highly illustrated overview of the desert geomorphology of Iran.

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics.

Over 50 percent of the 6,900 million dry tons of sewage sludge generated each year in the United States is land applied.

Geoenvironmental Engineering: Contaminated Soils, Pollutant Fate, and Mitigation focuses on why soils and sediments remain contaminated.

Since the Czech edition was published four years ago, the authors have revised the original text tobring it up to date.

Smallholder farmers face relentless challenges from pests, diseases, and the severe impacts of climate change across developing countries.

The purpose and scope of this book on theoretical glaciology is outlined in the Introduction.

The Chemistry of Clay Minerals

Selected Readings in Mineral Economics reviews the economic principles of mineral investment activities and mining decisions.

This book introduces new geological analysis and geophysical methods and techniques for lithological reservoir exploration.

This richly illustrated book provides a regionally focused overview about the landscapes and landforms of France.

Mars is about one-eighth the mass of the Earth and it may provide an analogue of what the Earth was like when it was at such an early stage of accretion.

This book is at the center of the UN goals of combining environment and economic development with new technologies.

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

This book is based on over 150 scientific papers about the Dogu'a Tembien district in Ethiopia.

In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation.

Feldspar minerals make up 60% of the crust of the Earth.

Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, Volume 2: The Terrestrial Environment, B focuses on the processes, methodologies, principles, and approaches involved in isotope geochemistry.

This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to discover the story of land and ancient life evolution in Oman since at least 800 million years ago.

The increasing population densities of Asia, Africa and Oceania are in conflict with the ecosystem.

Despite advances in modeling, such as graphical user interfaces, the use of GIS layers, and databases for developing input files, the approaches to modeling phosphorus (P) have not changed since their initial development in the 1980s.

The fourth edition of the European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (geoENV IV) took place in Barcelona, November 27-29, 2002.

An updated fourth edition of this practical, step-by-step guide for undergraduate students to solving geometric problems in structural geology.

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems describes all of the main Fossil Lagerstatten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) from around the world in a chronological order.

The book encompasses different Agriculturally Important microorganisms (AIMs), mechanisms of action and modes of application for sustainable agriculture.

An exploration of the most complex microbial ecosystems with incisive reviews of developments in soil science.

A multidisciplinary update on continental plate tectonics and plate boundary discontinuities Understanding the origin and evolution of the continental crust continues to challenge Earth scientists.

Antarctic Climate Evolution, Second Edition, enhances our understanding of the history of the world's largest ice sheet, and how it responded to and influenced climate change during the Cenozoic.

This book is of paramount importance in the fields of engineering and applied sciences, given that through the values obtained by these procedures, many structures, like spillways of dams and highway culverts, are designed and constructed.

This book gives a detailed account of the scarce water resources of Jordan, with a focus on their quantities, quality, and use for different sectors.

This book offers extensive information on the course of sedimentation in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin and the potential record of ancient life stored within the rocks.

Applications in Hydrogeology for Geoscientists presents the most recent scientific developments in the field that are accessible yet rigorous enough for industry professionals and academic researchers alike.

This book is designed as an excellent resource text for students and professionals, providing an in-depth overview of the theory and applications of downhole microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing.

Principles and Practices for Petroleum Contaminated Soils includes some of the best research and practical work done by top researchers in the field-both in industry and academia.

This book explores research that contributes to the current literature on the Oil and Gas Sector by analysing the multiple discourses that experts use to examine social investment.

Founded in 1966, the internationally recognized and acclaimed SeriesPalaeoecology of Africa publishes interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of the African continent.

This book will not serve as the "e;encyclopedia of cover crop management,"e; but it's close.

This book is a comprehensive advancement about the understanding of the volcanology of Mars in all its aspects, from its primary formation to its evolution in time, from the smaller structures to the bigger structures.

Saudi Arabia hosts at least six major volcanic fields located on the western margin of the Arabian Peninsula.

Soils and sediments influence current processes, preserve evidence of past processes, indicate evolutionary phases in landscapes and provide a basis for relative and absolute chronologies.

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generally hidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% of the Earth s surface, including large parts of ancient mountain belts.