Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

Fossils and Strata is an international series of monographs and memoirs in palaeontology and biostratigraphy, owned by, and published on behalf of, The Lethaia Foundation in cooperation between the Scandinavian countries.

Below the live oaks, palm trees, cypress swamps, and springs, water is slowly wearing away the limestone bedrock of Florida.

Soils and Landscape Restoration provides a multidisciplinary synthesis on the sustainable management and restoration of soils in various landscapes.

Teaches Students How to Perform Spatio-Temporal Analyses within Epidemiological StudiesSpatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology is the first book of its kind to specifically address the interface between environmental epidemiology and spatio-temporal modeling.

The Volcanoes of Mars offers a clear, cohesive summary of Mars volcanology.

This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains-volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests-to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's marvelous landscapes.

The design of a hydroelectric plant, along with an installation of transformation of potential energy of water into electricity, is an activity that is not standardized.

Provides users with everything they need to know about testing and analysis of coal Includes new coverage on environmental issues and regulations as related to coal Provides the reader with the necessary information about testing and analyzing coal and relays the advantages and limitations in understanding the quality and performance of coal Explains the meaning of test results and how these results can predict coal behavior and its corresponding environmental impact during use Includes a comprehensive Glossary which defines items in straightforward language that enable readers to better understand the terminology related to coal Treats issues related to sampling, and accuracy and precision of analysis

The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines.

Pedogenesis and Soil Taxonomy : The Soil Orders

Over the past ten years, a number of new large-scale oceanographic programs have been initiated.

This book provides a brief geology, tectonic structure and metallogeny of Mongolia, central part of the giant Central Asian Orogenic Belt, and broad overview of major metallic (copper, gold, rare metals and rare earths, iron, lead and zinc, silver and platinum group), non-metallic (phosphorite and fluorspar) and fuel (uranium and coal) mineral deposits and occurrences, covering their tectonic position, metallogeny and deposit types, geological characteristics and origin, including newly found deposits and occurrences based on authors research data and a large information obtained during geological exploration work.

This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973.

Biogeochemistry of Trace Metals is a compendium of the most recent information available on the effects of trace metals in soil quality and its potential threat on the transfer of these contaminants to consumers.

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.

Gold Panning Colorado is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in Colorado.

Mathematics is a universal language.

Drawn from a wide range of sources, the statistics in this handbook cover 46 minerals.

Urban population growth dramatically alters material and energy fluxes in the affected areas, with concomitant changes in landscape, altered fluxes of water, sediment, chemicals and pathogens and increased releases of waste heat.

Magnetospheric Imaging: Understanding the Space Environment through Global Measurements is a state-of-the-art resource on new and advanced techniques and technologies used in measuring and examining the space environment on a global scale.

The Earth's Crust and Mantle presents the deformations of the Earth's crust, which are attributed to mantle currents.

Originally published in 1995, Monitoring Active Volcanoes is a comprehensive text which addresses the importance of volcano surveillance in the context of forecasting eruptive activity and mitigating its effects.

This richly illustrated Element presents many useful tips and tricks to both novices and experts in mapping and planning.

Dieses Buch behandelt grundwasserchemische Fragen, die durch die zunehmende Nutzung und Verschmutzung der aquatischen Umwelt immer wichtiger werden.

In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation-nearly three billion years ago-to the present.

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

A collection of nearly 200 geophysics problems, with detailed solutions, forming an ideal course supplement for students and instructors.

The role played by earth sciences in the scientific community has changed considerably during this century.

Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas: Monitoring and Prediction Technologies presents the fundamentals of mining related geotechnical risk and how the latest advances in sensing and data communication can be used both to prevent accidents and provide early warnings.

A research summary of the causes and effects of megaflooding on Earth and Mars, for hydrologists, planetary scientists and engineers.

Textbook for graduate students and an introduction for researchers to coastal basins through simple hydrodynamics.

Engineers and geologists in the petroleum industry will find Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics, Third Edition, to be a powerful resource in providing a basis for rock mechanical knowledge, which can greatly assist in the understanding of field behavior, design of test programs, and the design of field operations.

This book comprehensively presents the geography of landforms linked to periglacial processes across Europe.

Currently, it is a serious concern to manage waste in the environment.

This book, first published in 1985, arises from the 14th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

There is more to appraising jewelry than just being parable sales and a value determination.

The authoritative contributions gathered in this volume reflect the state of the art in compositional data analysis (CoDa).

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

The safe disposal of radioactive wastes by burial in deep geological formations requires long-term predictions of the future behaviour of the wastes and their engineered repository.

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) frequently exhibit rich biological diversity and can provide enormous economic wealth.

Agricultural Soil Sustainability and Carbon Management presents long-term research in the field of sustainable soil use and management to guide in the prioritizing the multifunctional value of soil health and addressing interdisciplinary links between major issues such as biodiversity and climate change.

Introduction to geologic fracture mechanics covering geologic structural discontinuities from theoretical and field-based perspectives.

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

The eighteen articles appearing in this, the fifth, number of Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources, were mostly published between the years 1957 and 1963.

The Connemara region in Western Ireland is world-renowned for its outstanding geology that is blended with spectacular landscapes.

Scientists have collected a wealth of physical and chemical data for the Sun, planets, and small bodies in our solar system, but until now this information has been scattered throughout the technical literature.