Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

This thesis represents one of the few studies so far that systematically analyses environmental conditions within debris flow source areas to determine their relative importance for debris flow development.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This atlas illustrates the characteristics of present-day bedforms, from the shoreline to deep-sea environments, and it also includes short reviews of the main mechanisms that generate such bedforms.

This book details how the GALO system of basin modelling may be used in the analysis of actual, non-standard problems of geology.

This well illustrated book presents a compact history of the Solar System from its dusty origins 4,600,000 years ago to the present day.

This book deals with the Tsunami intrusion in the lower plain in the Tohoku region and role played by the coastal and fluvial landforms in the damages.

This book discusses the perceptions and sketches, geological background, materials and coastal processes of the East Coast of India.

Volcanoes have terrified and, at the same time, fascinated civilizations for thousands of years.

This introductory volume to a new series on Soil Forensics gives a kaleidoscopic view of a developing forensic expertise.

This book records the geoheritage values of globally significant, yet little-known, volcanic geosites in Saudi Arabia.

This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form.

New and innovative scientific theories, discussion and explanations are presented on landform dynamics and evolution in Romania along with a comprehensive understanding of the geomorphological processes shaping the large variety of Romania's landscape.

Arid-semiarid regions have suffered from sharp conflicts among water resource utilization, mining, and the environmental protection.

This book presents an overview of techniques that are available to characterize sedimentary aquifers.

This book combines new quantitative erosion measurement methods with a geochemical fingerprint and a model-based approach to measure erosion and sediment flux in the Wadi Al-Arab, a Mediterranean to semi-arid catchment in northwest Jordan.

This book summarises the main results of many contributions from researchers worldwide who have used the water infiltration process to characterize soil in the field.

This volume presents an exhaustive overview of major orebodies and mineral deposits of North Africa.

This book describes essential methods for evaluating groundwater vulnerability to contamination.

This proceedings contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the IAG Scientific Assembly, Postdam, Germany, 1-6 September, 2013.

This book contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy in Rome, 17-21 June, 2013.

This 2nd edition is a survey level review of key areas of archaeological geology/geoarchaeology.

Rhodolith beds are recognized internationally as a unique ecosystem, and they are the focus of this interdisciplinary book.

The expanded 3rd edition of this established textbook offers an updated overview and review of the computational physics techniques used in materials modelling over different length and time scales.

This book focuses in the current situation of water resources, water supply and sanitation, and population movement in Latin America.

This book is about the more than 4,000 beach systems that form most of the 9000 km long Brazilian coast.

These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences.

This book analyzes the Early Cretaceous volcanic processes in Misiones Province and in Sierra Chica de Cordoba (Argentina).

This book investigates the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB), one of the oldest and largest mining areas not only in Poland but also in Europe.

This book presents a new suite of benchmarks for and examples of porous media mechanics collected over the last two years.

This book offers an insight into the global occurrence,  geomorphology, evolution, weathering and erosion of coastal cliffs and bluffs.

Rhodolith beds are recognized internationally as a unique ecosystem, and they are the focus of this interdisciplinary book.

This book explains in detail how to use oil and gas show information to find hydrocarbons.

This volume offers an overview of the occurrence of emerging organiccontaminants in Mediterranean rivers and their relevance to their chemical and ecologicalquality under water scarcity.

This book describes in a comprehensive manner the technical aspects of separation of rare earth elements into individual elements for industrial and commercial use.

This book is devoted to the ichnology of insects, and associated trace fossils, in soils and paleosols.

This book presents selected contributions of the 34th International School of Hydraulics that was held in May 2015 in Zelechow, Poland.

This book offers a new framework that facilitates the development of more intelligent systems and methods for data analysis and international information sharing, such as the use of satellite imaging and geospatial data to predict changes in weather conditions and shifts in water levels, and to assess the extent of the forest cover remaining on Earth that is visible from space.

The book aims to present the unique geomorphological landscapes of the Czech Republic.

This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change.

This book provides a multi-scale and multidisciplinary perspective on the geology of Azerbaijan, a country characterized by a unique tectonic and geological setting including the Greater and Lesser Caucasus, the Talysh Mountains, and the Caspian and Kur Basins.

This is a highly illustrated book with each landform being described with the following structure: (1) Main characteristics, including geometric, morphometric and sedimentological features.

This book deals with the rare earth elements (REE), which are a series of 17 transition metals: scandium, yttrium and the lanthanide series of elements (lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium).

This book explores the latest advances in our understanding of the evolution of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta, examining the Damodar basin, Bhagirathi-Hooghly basin and Jalangi basin from historical, quantitative and applied geomorphology perspectives.

The book deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Italy.

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The book provides a review of experimental methods and presents the worldwide newest literature regarding chemical substances fluxes via submarine groundwater discharge (SGD).

This revised edition describes the transformation of the environment and landscape of Western Sorkapp Land based on research data collected by Jagiellonian University scientific expeditions in the period 1980-1986 and in 2008.

This book introduces readers to the field of seismic data interpretation and evaluation, covering themes such as petroleum exploration and high resolution seismic data.

This book is a useful guide for researchers in ecology and earth science interested in the use of accelerator mass spectrometry technology.

This volume addresses the physical foundation of remote sensing.