Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach.

This book offers a positive response to the challenge to both conserve and improve the soil and water situation particularly on sloping lands.

2D/3D Boundary Element Programming in Petroleum Engineering and Geomechanics, Volume 72, is designed to make it easy for researchers, engineers and students to begin writing boundary element programs.

This book sets out the basic materials science needed for understanding the plastic deformation of rocks and minerals.

This 2007 book presents a complete nomenclature of metamorphic rock terms for all geoscientists studying metamorphic rocks.

This volume focuses on modelling the fate of chemicals in the environment and the human body to arrive at an integrated exposure assessment.

Since carbon sequestration in soils reduces the amount of carbon available to the atmosphere, the Kyoto Protocols have heightened interest in soil carbon pools and their effect on carbon fluxes.

This book contains a selection of papers from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "e;Stochastic models of hydrological processes and their applications to problems of environmental preservation"e; convened in Moscow over the period 23-27 November 1998.

Paleostress Inversion Techniques: Methods and Applications for Tectonics is an ideal reference for both academic and industry researchers in the Earth Sciences.

The Alps, with their outstanding outcrop conditions, represent a superb natural laboratory for many geological processes, and have played a crucial role in the history of geology.

This book comprehensively utilizes the new generation of artificial intelligence and remote sensing science and technology to systematically carry out researches on high-precision recognition, monitoring, analysis, and assessment of geological disasters by using different technologies of "e;ground, airspace, and space-based systems"e; and different scales of "e;target-semantic-region"e;.

The Zambezi river basin is the fourth largest river basin in Africa and drains a total of some 1350.

Grounded in current research, this second edition has been thoroughly updated, featuring new topics, global examples and online material.

This state-of-the-art compendium, combining theory with practical examples, looks at the entire biochar supply chain.

Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Konvergenzerscheinungen am Rande des sächsischen Granulits" verfügbar.

The Movement of Beach Sand

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Papers in the proceedings of the 32nd U.

This fully revised and updated edition introduces the reader to sedimentology and stratigraphic principles, and provides tools for the interpretation of sediments and sedimentary rocks.

When I joined Schlumberger in 1982 I was surprised to find very few geologists in the company, and the few there were worked more as log analysts than geol- ogists.

This book was prepared for publication by an International Working Group of experts under the auspices of COGEOENVIRONMENT - the Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences (lUGS) on Geological Sciences for Environmental Planning and lUGS-GEM (Commission on Geosciences for Environmental Management).

Among the most important and exciting current steps forward in geo-engineering is the development of coupled numerical models.

Developments in Geotechnical Engineering, Vol.

This book describes the laws of sustainable soil management to enhance ecosystem services while restoring degraded soils and promoting sustainable use.

This text, based on an international symposium held in 1994, covers geosynthetic clay liners (GCL), a type of geosynthetic material which blends natural soil and geosynthetics in the form of a composite barrier-system.

The surface features of the Earth are commonly split into two cate- gories, the first of which comprises those features that are due to processes occurring inside the solid Earth (endogenetic features) and the second those that are due to processes occurring outside the solid Earth (exogenetic features).

Natural hazards cost the global economy over $50,000 million per year.

Cohesive sediment, or mud, is encountered in most water bodies throughout the world.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Dynamic Well Testing in Petroleum Exploration and Development, Second Edition, describes the process of obtaining information about a reservoir through examining and analyzing the pressure-transient response caused by a change in production rate.

The main objective of this book is to present the distribution and diversity of major soil types in Serbia.

Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change.

This book focuses on the recent advents and technological breakthroughs in metagenomic approaches coupled with their applications in agriculture.

This book comprehensively illustrates the elemental processes of vesiculation and crystallization recorded in volcanic products on the basis of the equilibrium and non-equilibrium theories.

This book offers many examples of calcareous microfossils and describes a new microfaunistic record in Argentina.

Falcon Pocket Guides are full-color, visually appealing, on-the-go guides for identifying plants and animals and learning about nature.

Natural Convection in Composite Fluid-Porous Domains provides a timely overview of the current state of understanding on the phenomenon of convection in composite fluid-porous layers.

Tight gas reservoirs have very low permeability and porosity, which cannot be produced at economical flow rates unless the well is efficiently stimulated and completed using advanced and optimized technologies.

This is a unique, timely and engaging text with wide ranging geographical coverage.

The Geology of the Canary Islands provides a concise overview of the geology and volcanology of the Canary Islands, along with 27 carefully planned day excursions comprising trips on all of the islands.

This book contains selected contributions presented at the 10th International Geostatistics Congress held in Valencia from 5 to 9 September, 2016.

This new volume emphasizes the drastic quantitative and qualitative transformation of our surrounding environment and looks at bioresource management and the tools needed to manageenvironmental stresses.

There has been a great advance in the understanding of processes of meta- morphism and of metamorphic rocks since the last edition of this book appeared.

An introduction to the quantitative analysis of seawater, describing in detail biological and chemical techniques, which are considered to be amongst those most often used by biological oceanographers.

The considerable exploration success achieved by geochemistry over the last several decades - and still continuing - has provided both the basis and rationale for the Handbook of Exploration Geochemistry series, including Volume 6, Drainage Geochemistry in Mineral Exploration.

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.