Man's intensifying use of the Earth's habitat has led to an urgent need for scientifically advanced 'geo-prediction systems' that accurately locate subsurface resources and forecast the timing and magnitude of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and land subsidence.
This authoritative book presents a comprehensive account of the essential roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in understanding, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic systems.
Understanding water circulation in rocks represents a very important element to solving many of the problems linked with civil, environmental and mining engineering.
As the title suggests, Isotope Effects in the Chemical, Geological and Bio Sciences deals with differences in the properties of isotopically substituted molecules, such as differences in the chemical and physical properties of water and the heavy waters.
In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics.
All’inizio degli anni Trenta Guglielmo Marconi, nominato presidente del Cnr per diretta volontà di Mussolini, recepì le richieste di rinnovamento della Fisica terrestre avanzate dai settori più sensibili del mondo accademico e, fra non poche difficoltà e contrasti, avviò la costituzione di un moderno Istituto nazionale di geofisica.
Il testo fornisce le conoscenze necessarie per affrontare, con un approccio quantitativo, i molteplici aspetti connessi al flusso delle risorse idriche sotterranee (acque di falda) e alla propagazione e bonifica di contaminanti nei sistemi acquiferi.
This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation) project, funded as a Specific Support Action under the VI FP.
"I lettori di ossa" racconta lo scontro tra scienza e politica nel dibattito sulla preistoria australiana e di altri Paesi dove la presenza dei popoli indigeni rende profondamente politica l’interpretazione del passato.
"Los Supervinos 2018" no solo ofrece información útil, actualizada y rigurosa, también propone a los aficionados al vino el descubrimiento constante de nuevas referencias, y lo hace mediante unlenguaje fácil y asequible.
Si imaginem que tota la història de l'univers és una setmana, els primers organismes vius no van aparèixer fins a les darreres 48 hores i l'Homo sapiens només hi ha viscut durant els últims nou segons.
Además de conservar su característica rigurosidad y total independencia, la completa y diversa selección de los 120 mejores vinos de supermercado para 2020, en esta versión, también va acompañada de maridajes ideales para cada uno de ellos y sugerencias de cuándo tomarlos.
¿Cuántas veces nos preguntamos mientras disfrutamos de una botella de vino, lo que habrá tenido que ocurrir, desde que se plantó la viña, se cortó el racimo y se obtuvo el caldo, hasta el momento en el que lo degustamos?
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country's irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits.
The book summarizes the occurrence, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology and phase-equilibria studies in air and under high pressures related to the most intriguing group of potassium-rich mafic and ultramafic rocks, often including host of exotic mineral assemblages including feldspathoids.
Remitiéndose al estilo de un cuaderno de un naturalista, este libro se adentra en el mundo biológico del ajolote, un animal que ha despertado el interés constante de gente muy diversa: se ha concebido mitológicamente, comido por placer y usado como remedio; habita en la obsuridad del agua, quizás con discreción, pero es quintaesencial para la cultura del valle de México.
El verdadero conocimiento del relieve de la Tierra exige no sólo advertir la presencia de planicies, lomeríos, montañas, ríos y lagos, sino además explicar el origen de cada forma, su evolución y su futuro.
The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture.
This book examines relationships between climate-hydrological changes and other phenomena including land use and natural disasters during the Holocene and recent past.
This book on multiscale seismic tomography, written by one of the leaders in the field, is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals in Earth and planetary sciences who need to broaden their horizons about seismotectonics, volcanism, and interior structure and dynamics of the Earth and Moon.
