Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

Encyclopaedia of Geology broadly covers various aspects of geology with illustration.

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals.

This work presents an holistic view of the fundamental principles and practicable methods of polluted soils.

This work presents an holistic view of the fundamental principles and practicable methods of polluted soils.

Contents:Foundation engineering & field & laboratory testing; Ground improvement & reinforced earth; Embankments, Excavations & buried structures; Earth structures, mines & slopes; Dynamic behaviours of soil & earthquakes.

This volume covers topics such as geology, geomorphology, palynology, palaeontology and archaeology in the fynbos region, southern-most Africa.

Contents:Foundation engineering & field & laboratory testing; Ground improvement & reinforced earth; Embankments, Excavations & buried structures; Earth structures, mines & slopes; Dynamic behaviours of soil & earthquakes.

This volume covers topics such as geology, geomorphology, palynology, palaeontology and archaeology in the fynbos region, southern-most Africa.

Discover a dazzling deep-dive into the history of the world through a totally new lens, as told by the V&A s Senior Jewellery Curator.

Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world''s soils.

What is the progress in hydraulic research?

This monograph presents an integrated perspective of the wide range of phenomena and processes applicable to the study of transport of species in porous materials.

This thesis presents an impressive summary of the potential to use passive seismic methods to monitor the sequestration of anthropogenic CO2 in geologic reservoirs.

Permafrost Hydrology systematically elucidates the roles of seasonally and perennially frozen ground on the distribution, storage and flow of water.

Boomende Nachfrage, schrumpfende Reserven: Der Rohstoffverbrauch der Menschheit steigt.

Having been the fourth largest lake on the globe roughly 50 years ago, today the Aral Sea no longer exists.

The state-of-the-art in fluvial hydrodynamics can be examined only through a careful exploration of the theoretical development and applied engineering technology.

Earth's present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.

The South Atlantic plays a critical role in the couplingofoceanic processes between the Antarctic and the lower latitudes.

This book reports about the results of a Special Symposium "e;The Baltic Sea Basin"e;, held on August 11, 2008, within the frame of the 33rd IGC at Oslo, Norway in order to foster the understanding of the Baltic Basin as a unit in terms of genesis, structure, ongoing processes and utilization.

It is clear that hydraulic research is developing beyond traditional civil engineering to satisfy increasing demands in natural hazards assessment and also environmental research.

The book addresses a weakness of current methodologies used in extreme value assessment, i.

Metals in the earth's crust are very unevenly distributed and, traditionally, a small number of ore deposits, districts or countries have dominated the world supply and have influenced commodity prices.

A murmur is heard from the depths of time.

This is the first book to cover actinide nano research.

Die Kenntnis der in einem Gewässer (Fluss, Kanal) fließenden Wassermenge und ihrer räumlichen und zeitlichen Varianz ist eine wesentliche Grundlage für die Bemessung von Wasserbauwerken sowie die rationale Bewirtschaftung der Ressource Wasser.

Mylonites form in response to high rates of strain within deep ductile shear zones, which are the extensions at depth of surface faults, thrusts and fault breccias, They can have many different mineralogical compositions and are therefore defined on their textural appearance.

The relationships between soils, microbes and humans are of crucial relevance in the tropics, where plant stress and microbial activity are exacerbated.

The agricultural world has changed significantly during the last years.

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The book reflects the results of the study of sedimentation history, paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography of the Arctic and Subarctic during the last 130 ka.

Rock Joints deals exclusively with the mechanical genesis of joints in rocks.

Using the kind permission given to me by my co-author, this short preface will be written in my name.

This book represents a rather complicated history of encounters, changes in research interest and some very interesting results.

This book addresses the characterization of flow and transport in porous fractured media from experimental and modeling perspectives.

Tis text has resulted from some forty years of experience during which the author has puzzled over the meaning of ore textures.

This book is a practical guide to the subject of numerical modelling of radioactivity dispersion in the marine environment.

Carbonate mounds are an important feature along the European North-Atlantic margins.

This book is about the most complete work on the subject of clay minerals thus far conceived.

This monograph deals with the part of the field of experimental rock deformation that is dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another.

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.

'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of WildingA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.

Lancaster (geology, Arizona State U.

Lancaster (geology, Arizona State U.

What does a 4,000-year-old tree remember?

This book covers the basic concepts and case studies in structural geology and tectonics.