Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

More than 10 years after the "e;First European Symposium on Organic Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment"e;, the "e;Sixth Symposium"e; was held in Lisbon (Portugal) from 22 to 24 May 1990.

3 new biota and extinction of others, and extensive soil erosion reaching almost catastrophic proportions have led to desertification of many upland areas and abandonment by local populations.

Shear waves and closely related interface waves (Rayleigh, Stoneley and Scholte) play an important role in many areas of engineering, geophysics and underwater acoustics.

oil is the lifeblood of the World's economy.

Modeling of the rainfall-runoff process is of both scientific and practical significance.

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Life has shaped the Earth, and the Earth has moulded the history of life.

The importance of oil in the world economy cannot be overstated, and methods for recovering oil will be the subject of much scientific and engineering research for many years to come.

Basalt is the most voluminous of all the igneous rocks.

This volume presents a collection of original, multidisciplinary papers written by leading scientists from the various countries of the Pacific rim.

Research of the origins of life in connection with a marine environment started at the end of the seventies, when the `black smokers' in the Pacific were discovered and the Red Sea deep hydrothermal brines were found to be a fruitful environment for abiotic synthesis of life precursors.

Over the past twenty years, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of opera- tional, digital weather radars in Europe.

The Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held at the Australian National University in Canberra 2-6 July 1990.

Transport phenomenain porous media are encounteredin various disciplines, e.

The reasons for writing this book are very simple.

Fission track dating is based on the microscopic observation and counting of etchable tracks left by the spontaneous fission of uranium in minerals.

Concentrations of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in lakes are often an order of magnitude greater than concentrations of particulate organic matter; nevertheless, the biogeochemical analysis of DOM is described in only a few textbooks on limnology (most thoroughly by Wetzel).

Carbon dioxide and other `greenhouse' gases are increasing in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels, the destruction of rain forests, etc.

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International Weather Radar Networking covers all aspects of the subject in a collection of contributions drawn from all over the world.

Introduction to Clay Minerals is designed to give a detailed, concise and clear introduction to clay mineralogy.

Although some handbooks on the microscopic identi- In Part I the concept of heavy mineral analysis is fication of heavy mineral grains are available, a introduced and the relative significance of factors comprehensive manual illustrated in colour has not affecting heavy mineral assemblages is discussed.

This volume deals with those sites selected as part of the Geological Conservation Review (GCR) within the southern British part of the Caledonides, that is, the paratectonic Caledonides - a Caledonian terrane without strong and pervasive deformation and metamorphism, such as occurred further north.

Within the last decade, the high and continuing demand for gold has prompted a global gold rush on a scale never before seen, not even in the heady days of Ballarat, California and the Yukon.

The selected spectra presented in this volume are a testimony to the diversity of mineral carbonates.

The Mediterranean is one of the most studied regions of the world.

The former Soviet Union possessed some of the world's largest reserves of energy and mineral resources.

Increasing awareness of the irreversible and long-lasting impacts of deterioration and pollution of soils and sediments has had an important influence on environmental policies and research in the last decade.

The symposium on high salinity tolerant plants, held at the University of Al Ain in December 1990, dealt primarily with plants tolerating salinity levels exceeding that of ocean water and which at the same time are promising for utilization in agriculture or forestry.

For the last couple of decades it has been recognized that the foundation material on which a structure is constructed may interact dynamically with the structure during its response to dynamic excitation to the extent that the stresses and deflections in the system are modified from the values that would have been developed if it had been on a rigid foundation.

The contributions in this book were presented at the Fourth International Geostatistics Congress held in Troia, Portugal, in September 1992.

Stochastic hydrology is an essential base of water resources systems analysis, due to the inherent randomness of the input, and consequently of the results.

This volume contains material first presented at an international workshop on the 'Use of Microorganisms to Combat Pollution', held in Israel, May 10--18, 1992.

Modern approaches to the theoretical computation and experimental determination of NMR shielding tensors are described in twenty-nine papers based on lectures presented at the NATO ARW.

In recent years there have been a number of catastrophic floods that have resulted in a tragic loss of life.

The 8th International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held in Butte, Montana, August 8-12,1988.

Ecotones, or boundary zones between land and inland waters (such as lakes, streams and rivers), are the principal routes for transport of organic matter and nutrients across landscapes via physical and biological vectors.

In the dozen years since the first edition appeared, there has been a great advance in understanding of the Earth's deep interior.

This volume illustrates some of the significant aspects of magmatic activity from Devonian (408 million years ago) to early Permian (270 million years ago) times in SW England.

In describing the geomorphological heritage of Scotland, this volume offers a remarkable account of how the natural environment responded in terms of landforms, processes and plant communities, to severe climatic change as the Quaternary era progressed over the last two million years.

reviewers, and reported by users of the earlier This third edition (or issue) of the Quantitative Data File for ore minerals (QDF) of the Commission on editions.

Introduction to Industrial Minerals introduces the reader to the subject of the new mineral raw materials that our society demands.

For much of the 20th century, scientific contacts between the Soviet Union and western countries were few and far between, and often super- ficial.

In November, 1986, the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy held the 'Mining Latin AmericalMineria Latinoamericana' conference in Chile - a conference covering a broad range of topics relevant to South America and, in that sense, complementary to its regional 'Asian Mining' and 'African Mining' series of events.

Hydrometallurgy '94 contains the 78 papers that were presented at the international symposium organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and the Society of Chemical Industry and held in Cambridge, England, in July 1994.

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).