Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

This third volume focusses on anthropogenic organic pollutants harming the environment.

This book focuses on the geological evolution of Southwest (SW) Gondwana and presents state-of-the-art insights into its evolution.

This book discusses the latest advances and applications in geospatial technologies and earth resources for mine surveying and civil engineering.

The book comprises the 3rd collection of benchmarks and examples for porous and fractured media mechanics.

This book presents key principles of the hydraulics of river basins, with a unique focus on the interplay between stream flows and sediment transport.

This book presents chapters, written by leading coastal scientists, which collectively depict the current understanding of the processes that shape barrier islands and barrier spits, with an emphasis on the response of these landforms to changing conditions.

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period.

You hold in your hands the most original guide to understanding the oil and gas world - from exploration and production to the related economics and geopolitics.

This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes.

This book covers all relevant aspects involved in conducting water quality surveys of rivers.

This unique book presents hundreds of spectacular photographs of large-scale to small-scale field geological features of flood basalt volcanism from around the world.

This book showcases powerful new hybrid methods that combine numerical and symbolic algorithms.

This book presents the first overview of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the southern Iberian paleomargin, in the western Tethys.

This tutorial provides the application of the coupling interface OGS#IPhreeqc (open-source scientific software) to model reactive mass transport processes in environmental subsurface systems.

The book speaks to the need for a regulatory framework with regards to space resource utilization.

This book aims to clarify the issue of groundwater in coastal saline environment management.

This book offers a first-of-its-kind, standalone review of coalbed methane (CBM) in India, covering all the major technical and policy aspects.

This textbook presents a comprehensive process-oriented approach to biogeochemistry that is intended to appeal to readers who want to go beyond a general exposure to topics in biogeochemistry, and instead are seeking a holistic understanding of the interplay of biotic and environmental drivers in the cycling of elements in forested watersheds.

This book provides a unique reference resource not only for geomorphologists, but for all Earth scientists.

This book gathers older and current knowledge of the evolution and functioning of cuesta landscapes to provide a better understanding of the Luxembourgian landscape.

This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river.

The focus of this book is on the more than 2000 caves of the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia of which the 14 with lengths greater than 10 km have an aggregate length of 639 km.

This new volume on boron isotope geochemistry offers review chapters summarizing the cosmochemistry, high-temperature and low-temperature geochemistry, and marine chemistry of boron.

This book focuses on the permeability of the foundation of dams, how to determine their state and how to tighten permeable rock to achieve safe foundations for large dams.

This book is dedicated to the study of the islands and their role in a globalised world.

This book shares the learnings and perspectives of two pioneer women who waded the many challenges posed by multiculturalism and gender in one of the corporate environments more rigid and traditional in the business world: the energy sector in the Middle East.

This book explains the causes, mechanisms and dimension of sedimentation in theRupnarayan River, which offers a representative example of a tidal river combining fluvial and marine processes.

This is the first book on global agromining/phytomining technology.

This volume brings together the geological, geomorphological and ecological aspects of Japan's natural heritage, arguing for dynamic conservation of such heritage and explaining their key characteristics in an accessible format for general readers.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the biogeochemistry in the Baltic Sea.

The book summarizes the knowledge and experiences concerning the role of halogens during various geochemical processes, such as diagenesis, ore-formation, magma evolution, metasomatism, mineralization, and metamorphism in the crust and mantle of the Earth.

This book presents the gatherings of the "e;2016 International Conference on Water Resource and Hydraulic Engineering,"e; which primarily focused on the sustainable development of water resources and the environment in both China and the United States.

This book summarizes the geological knowledge accumulated on Afar in the last 60 years, demonstrating that it is, and will remain, a real "e;hot spot"e; for geological and geophysical research.

This textbook offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics.

This textbook is a step-by-step tutorial on the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in environmental and water resource issues.

This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.

This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to discover the story of land and ancient life evolution in Oman since at least 800 million years ago.

Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape.

This volume focuses on modelling the fate of chemicals in the environment and the human body to arrive at an integrated exposure assessment.

This book summarizes systematic data on nanogold in geological objects, including mineral-concentrators of nanogold, and the structure and chemical composition of nanogold aggregates.

This volume offers up-to-date and comprehensive information on various aspects of the Nile River, which is the main source of water in Egypt.

This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages.

This book provides an informative and intriguing overview of the most scenic landscapes of Belgium and Luxembourg.

This book presents the forensic geoscience in general and, in particular, in Italy and their application to peculiar crimes.

This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goals of the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, by establishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals, and encouraging students to develop their skills and knowledge in this field.

This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development.

This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development.

This dictionary includes a number of mathematical, statistical and computing terms and their definitions to assist geoscientists and provide guidance on the methods and terminology encountered in the literature.

This book presents projections and blueprints of the future geologic period, climate and biosphere, based on our current understanding of the Earth's history and recent developments in the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system.

This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees.