Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

Based on hundreds of thin sections from granite in China, this book introduces metasomatic textures and their formation mechanism in granite.

This book targets to earth scientists and engineers, in particular students, researchers, managers, and practitioners, who are interested in mining engineering, environmental engineering, green coal mining, sustainable water resource management, and effective measures to balance mine safety and ecological conservation.

A medio camino entre la escala del Universo y la de las partículas atómicas, la estructura y composición de la Tierra responde a reacciones entre los elementos químicos, que dan origen a los más variados compuestos.

Jeder kennt das Gefühl: Man möchte etwas mehr über ein Thema wissen, ist sich aber nicht sicher, wo man am besten startet.

Se suele clasificar los temas de la Construcción en 4 ramas: Movimiento de Tierra, Edificación, Administración y Legislación.

El desarrollo de un libro sobre el carbón, y su utilización es una tarea compleja, pues implica abordarlo como un producto de la naturaleza que posee características variables, diversas propiedades y multiples usos, el cual ha sido objeto de gran cantidad de estudios e investigaciones.

La hidrología moderna se caracteriza por ser una de las ciencias de la tierra que ha impulsado el conocimiento partiendo de las técnicas más avanzadas disponibles para la época.

Son muy pocas las experiencias de estudios orientados a la evaluación integral del riesgo frente a amenazas naturales.

Los suelos derivados de cenizas volcanicas, cuya muestra representativa son la mayoria de suelos de Popayan, son de mucha importancia ya que se encuentran comunmente en las zonas de mayor densidad poblacional de Colombia, sobre las cuales se cimientan todo tipo de obras de infraestructura.

La presente obra aborda uno de los procesos más intrigantes de la geología: el metamorfismo; el cual ha sido ampliamente difundido a través de la historia geológica de la Tierra y gran actor en su constitución.

El país está enfrentado un tema tan crítico como la apertura económica -tratados recién firmados como el TLC con Estados Unidos- obligan a los gremios del sector productivo a ser más competitivos si quieren continuar en el mercado.

The topic of this book is the Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape during the Holocene.

This book provides a new synthesis of the published research on the Quaternary of Ireland.

This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajokull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This volume focuses on research and practical issues linked to Calcined Clays for Sustainable Concrete.

This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China.

This book offers readers a comprehensive overview, and an in-depth understanding, of suitable methods for quantifying and characterizing saline aquifers for the geological storage of CO2.

The aim of this edited volume is to introduce the scientific community to paleoenvironmental studies of estuaries, to highlight the types of information that can be obtained from such studies, and to promote the use of paleoenvironmental studies in estuarine management.

This book presents a unified approach for modeling hydrologic processes distributed in space and time using geographic information systems (GIS).

This book presents the natural, environmental and scenic richness of the world's coastal and marine areas classified by UNESCO as "e;Natural World Heritage Sites"e;.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact.

This book provides a practical strategy for obtaining a more complete and accurate geologic site characterization.

This book of phenomenal illustrations provides a wealth of visual information on the wide variety of landform processes over all latitudes, climates and geological time-scales.

During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods.

This edited work contains the most recent advances related to the study of layered intrusions and cumulate rocks formation.

For the last three centuries forests have been recognised as providing the best water catchments and valued for their sustained output of high quality water.

This book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting sediments fluxes from watershed to worldwide coastal systems.

South American ecosystems suffered one of the greatest biogeographical events, after the establishment of the Panamian land bridge, called the "e;Great American Biotic Interchange"e; (GABI).

This volume presents papers on the use of micro-XRF core scanners in palaeoenvironmental research.

This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world's foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic.

Managed realignment has been a preferred coastal management strategy in England in the 21st century and has also been increasingly implemented elsewhere.

Crystals are everywhere, from natural crystals (minerals) through the semiconductors and magnetic materials in electronic devices and computers or piezoelectric resonators at the heart of our quartz watches to electro-optical devices.

This volume presents state-of-the-art research about mineral dust, including results from field campaigns, satellite observations, laboratory studies, computer modelling and theoretical studies.

Since the 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, the looming prospect of Earth's changing climate has inspired a broad movement dedicated to a sustainable future.

The Dead Sea transform is an active plate boundary connecting the Red Sea seafloor spreading system to the Arabian-Eurasian continental collision zone.

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

The Landscapes and Landforms of Spain provides an informative and inviting overview of the geology and geomorphology of Spain.

The risks of shortages for some crucial metals and uncertainty about the land-based reserves of several others justify the search to diversify our sources of supply and investigate their potential.

The proposed monograph on 'Geomorphological Landscapes of India' will aim to describe and explain in simple words the geomorphological characteristics and the origin of the above-mentioned landforms and landscapes.

This book provides a succinct but comprehensive presentation of key geomorphological locations and topics including information about geomorphological heritage and maps to visit the most important sites.

This book presents Brazil as a country of continental dimensions.

The landscapes of Namibia are of world-class quality in beauty, diversity and interest.

This book addresses most of the environmental impacts of sand mining from small rivers The problems and solutions addressed in this book are applicable to all rivers that drain through densely populated tropical coasts undergoing rapid economic growth.

This book provides an overview of covered karst types, covered karst features, functioning of covered karst features, the evolution of covered karst features and the development of covered karst reliefs.

This RILEM AAR 1.

This book contains the full set of RILEM Recommendations which have been produced to enable engineers, specifiers and testing houses to design and produce concrete which will not suffer damage arising from alkali reactions in the concrete.