Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

A straightforward introduction to stereographic projection techniques for students of geology and civil engineering.

This book discusses how important nanotechnology is for increasing agricultural production through better management of the soil and water.

The Legacy of Carbon Dioxide: Past and Present Impacts covers the truly varied roles carbon dioxide has played and continues to play in the character of our planet.

Residents and visitors in todays Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered.

Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments.

This book provides hydrologists the information needed for the characterization of contaminated subsurface hydrologic sites.

This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability.

The book presents the most advanced biotechnological information with respect to microbial applications in the treatment of mineral-metal bearing wastes.

Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section.

This Topics volume is devoted to a study of sound propagation in the ocean.

Subsequent to the profiling of organometal(loid) compounds in important biogeogenic and anthropogenic deposits, the importance of this class of compounds for human health are evaluated by the analysis of both physicochemical and biological formation, distribution and transformation processes.

This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea.

This book is directed to those who are interested in petroleum geology, especially source rock from both academia and industrial societies.

Over the last few decades our understanding of what Australia was like during the Mesozoic Era has changed radically.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden die laterale Sedimentation und Korngrößenverteilung untersucht.

From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field of Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe.

The term "e;soil health"e; refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants, animals, and humans while also improving the environment.

This self-contained handbook provides a carefully researched, compact source of key earth science information and data, logically sorted by subject matter, and then cross-referenced.

The application of multibeam and sediment transport measurement technologies and the adoption of multi-faceted research methodologies have greatly advanced our understanding of the sedimentary processes on continental shelves in the last decade.

Written as a complement to the definitive work selenium in the Environment (Marcel Dekker, Inc.

This publication shows the three-dimensional configuration of the gigantic tectonic sag of the Osaka Bay sedimentary basin on the eastern Eurasian margin based on reflection seismic data never before published.

This book comprehensively reviews the historical background of speleology and cave research in the contexts of archeology and natural sciences.

Vertisols, one of the eleven established soil orders, are clay soils with unusual and interesting properties.

Modern geochemistry possesses not only the vigor of geology and chemistry but also the rigor of mathematics.

This book addresses the problems of Geocosmos and provides a snapshot of the current research in a broad area of Earth Sciences carried out in Russia and elsewhere.

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Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This second volume in the series 'Fundamentals in Organic Geochemistry' focusses on molecular chemical aspects introducing the structural diversity of natural products, their fate in the sedimentary systems and the consequences of the corresponding alterations for geoscientific questions.

The term "e;Peak Oil"e; was born in January 2001 when Colin Campbell formed the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The author is to be congratulated on her efforts and perseverance in undertaking this research, and Springer for making the material available in this book format.

This book unifies and enhances the accessibility of contemporary scholarly research on advances in coastal modeling.

This book provides a common theoretical and practical basis to the multifaceted nature of magma mixing.

Natural attenuation has become an effective and low-cost alternative to more expensive engineered remediation.

This book describes the two excursions accessed from the Monterrey International Airport on the north side of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Rifted margins mark the transition between continents and oceans, which are the two first-order types of land masses on Earth.

The Omega-Theory: A New Physics of Earthquakes, Second Edition offers a unifying, mathematical framework to describe and answer the most pressing and unexamined dilemmas of earthquake sequences.

The emergence of fungicide resistance is a major challenge facing agriculture.

"e;From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth.

The ongoing population growth is resulting in rapid urbanization, new infrastructure development and increasing demand for the Earth's natural resources (e.

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

Knowledge of the basic interactions that take place between geological materials and different substances is the first step in understanding the effects of adsorption and other interfacial processes on the quality of rocks and soils, and on driving these processes towards a beneficial or neutral result.

From AMETHYST to ARTESIAN SPRING, from COAL GAS to CONTINENTAL DRIFT, from SEISMOGRAM to STROMATOLITE, the Encylopedia of the Solid Earth Sciences provides a comprehensive modern reference text for all the subdisciplines of the Earth Sciences.

This book presents the major research advances relating to Chinese Danxia landforms over the past 80 years.

Since the publication of the popular first edition, stellar and planetary scientists have produced numerous new observations, theories, and interpretations, including the "e;demotion"e; of our former ninth planet Pluto as a dwarf planet.

North-East India, comprising the seven contiguous states around Assam, the principal state of the region, is a relatively unknown, yet very fascinating region.