Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

This volume follows a Specialized Symposium on "e;Mantle denudation in slow spreading ridges and in ophiolites"e;, held at the XII EUG Meeting in Strasbourg, spring 1993.

Sequence stratigraphy has advanced considerably since the early applications of the concepts on seismic data.

Under the auspices of the Tsunami Commission of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and the International Coordination Group of the International Oceanographic Commission, the IUGGIIOC International Tsunami Symposium, TSUNAMI '93 (Sixteenth International Tsunami Symposium) was held in Wakayama, Olle of the most historical areas in the prevention of tsunami disasters in Japan, from 23 to 27 August, 1993 by the Organizing Committee of the Japan Society of Ovil Engineers, in commemoration of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

The 16 contributions to Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards report on GIS investigations into landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and groundwater pollution hazards.

Wetlands could be described as land and water at Tropical wetlands: one and the same time, and as such are very specific on the brink ecosystems.

A wide variety of problems are associated with the flow of shallow water, such as atmospheric flows, tides, storm surges, river and coastal flows, lake flows, tsunamis.

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

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for estimating space-time stochastic properties of local climatic factors reflecting global climate change.

When this two-day meeting was proposed, it was certainly not conceived as a celebration, much less as a party.

Over the last twenty years there has been a major expansion of knowledge in the field of landforms and landforming processes of deserts.

This collection of articles provides a unique overview of the state of the science in the prediction of and response to natural disaster events.

Although Rock Mechanics addresses many of the rock mechanics issues which arise in underground mining engineering, it is not a text exclusively for mining applications.

Marble in Ancient Greece and Rome: Geology, Quarries, Commerce, Artifacts Marble remains the sine qua non raw material of the an- cient Greeks and Romans.

In view of the rapidly expanding urban, industrial and agri- cultural water requirements in many areas and the normally associated critical unreliability of surface water supplies in arid and semi-arid zones, groundwater exploration and use is of fundamental importance for logical economic development.

The feldspars form the most abundant group of minerals in the crust of the Earth and Moon and also occur in many meteo- rites.

In this text, attention is focused mainly on those literature is accessible, however, it is to be expected countries in western Africa lying south of the Sahara, that teachers and lecturers will know of it and will be that is, between about SON and 15(deg)N, and westward able to acquaint their students with it, where neces- of about 15(deg)E.

This second volume in the new series produced by the Mineralogical Society is concerned with the study of rocks from the deep continental crust.

In this course we shall assume that all participants are familiar with the essentials of seismic prospecting.

Interest in the study of early European cultures is growing.

Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between jurisdictions and countries in the western Hemisphere.

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

In the 75 years of the existence of this book the content and boundaries of sedimentary petrology have increased enormously.

The last thorough revision of Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy appeared as the 23rd Edition in 1936.

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Microscopy is a servant of all the sciences, and the microscopic examina- tion of minerals is an important technique which should be mastered by all students of geology early in their careers.

This book is designed for a one-semester course in sedimentology taken by advanced undergraduate or graduate students.

This little book is different.

This text was originally written for use with the videotape program of the same title.

The International Conference on Geological Information represents the first major attempt to bring together geoscience information specialists from allover the world.

My book Metamorphic Rocks and Metamorphic Belts (in Japanese) was published by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, in Tokyo in 1965.

Rutley's elements of mineralogy has been around for a long time, certainly throughout my own lifetime; and if my great grandfather had read geology, it would have been prescribed reading for him too!

This monograph has its origins in a two-day meeting with the same title held in London, England in the spring of 1987.

In all the industries in which I do management consulting, each manager considers his own industry to be truly "e;unique.

This proceedings volume is the fifth in our continuing publication series that result from the annual geomorphology symposiums conducted in the Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York at Binghamton.

This book describes the seismic methods used in geophys- ical exploration for oil and gas in a comprehensive, non- rigorous, mathematical manner.

Every little wiggle has a meaning all its own.

Structural geology has developed at a very rapid pace in recent years.

The Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) Second International Conference on Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects was held June 12-14, 1995 in San Diego, California.

Accelerating progress in the application of radioactive and stable isotope analysis to a varied range of geologicla and geochemical problems in geology has required a complete revision of Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, published in 1988.

The origin of granite has for long fascinated geologists though serious debate on the topic may be said to date from a famous meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1847.

Discussing all aspects of offshore surveying in a single volume, this book provides all algorithms necessary to develop complete software suites, and gives a large number of quality control criteria.