Earth sciences

Based on the comprehensive, award-winning book Rivers of North America, the new Field Guide to Rivers of North America describes 200 of North America's most significant rivers in a reader-friendly, concise format.

The first edition of the Handbook of Clay Science published in 2006 assembled the scattered literature on the varied and diverse aspects that make up the discipline of clay science.

A practical guide to the methods in general use for the complete analysis of silicate rock material and for the determination of all those elements present in major, minor or trace amounts in silicate and other rocks that are routinely, commonly or occasionally determined by methods that are considered to be essentially chemical in character.

Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Sixth Edition, provides an introduction to the field with an emphasis on large-scale oceanography based mainly on observations.

This book is dedicated to studying the ocean with radar tools, in particular, with space radars.

Slope deposits are common in any inclined relief.

Contourites are sediments deposited or substantially reworked by bottom currents.

This book deals with sedimentary sulfides which are the most abundant authigenic minerals in sediments.

Geobiology is an exciting and rapidly developing research discipline that opens new perspectives in understanding Earth as a system.

Active geophysical monitoring is an important new method for studying time-evolving structures and states in the tectonically active Earth's lithosphere.

This two-volume reference serves as a handbook containing a wealth of information for all isotope chemists working in a wide range of disciplines including anthropology to ecology; drug detection methodology to toxicology; nutrition to food science; and the atmospheric sciences to geochemistry.

Weather Analysis and Forecasting is a practical guide to using potential vorticity fields and water vapor imagery from satellites to elucidate complex weather patterns and train meteorologists to improve operational forecasting.

Geochemical Anomaly and Mineral Prospectivity Mapping in GIS documents and explains, in three parts, geochemical anomaly and mineral prospectivity mapping by using a geographic information system (GIS).

In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.

Silicon (Si) plays a significant role in the resistance of plants to multiple stresses including biotic and abiotic stresses.

Formation and Properties of Clay-Polymer Complexes provides a comprehensive account of the reactions between clay minerals and organic polymers.

This volume covers the formation and biogeochemistry of a variety of important sediment types from their initial formation through their conversion (diagenesis) to sedimentary rocks.

The present volume is the first in a series of two books dedicated to the paleoceanography of the Late Cenozoic ocean.

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System is based on Kent Condie's classic text, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, which has been revamped and renamed in order to reflect a new emphasis on the evolving interactions of the Earth's systems.

Drawing on a combination of modern occurrences and likely ancient counterparts, this atlas is a treatise of mat-related sedimentary features that one may expect to see in ancient terrigenous clastic sedimentary successions.

Light scattering-based methods are used to characterize small particles suspended in water in a wide range of disciplines ranging from oceanography, through medicine, to industry.

This book is divided into four parts.

With Broeker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth's volatile climate history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead.

A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's weatherPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather.

How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts.

The thrilling quest for subsurface life on Earth and other planetsDeep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are helping the quest to find life in the solar system.

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To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert ROLLING STONE An essential voice HELEN MACDONALDUrgent and inspiring lessons from the frontlines of the climate catastrophe by one of our most important and influential environmental writers.

Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and Processing gives engineers and managers complete coverage of natural gas transmission and processing in the most rapidly growing sector to the petroleum industry.

Concise and readable, Water Injection For Low Permeability Reservoirs provides operators with the proper workflow systems and engineering techniques for designing, planning and implementing water injection systems that will improve recovery factors.

A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's weatherPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather.

In den Schatten der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung verbirgt sich eine beunruhigende Realität - die Existenz von Chemtrails.

A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, los meteoritos siempre irrumpieron desplegando el asombro, la sorpresa ante lo que no encuadra en los compartimentos de los conocimientos previos, la incomodidad ante lo que no encuentra su lugar en un edificio teórico largamente consolidado.

El espacio y el tiempo no son independientes, como se creía, sino aspectos diferentes de un todo flexible de 4 dimensiones llamado espacio–tiempo.

Este libro presenta una nueva visión sobre la formación del granizo, por métodos no convencionales.

La intención de esta guía de campo de El Monte, es facilitar la identificación de las especies vegetales, que aunque basando la investigación en el área del Bloque Exhumado de San Rafael, es aplicable al Territorio o Provincia Fitogeográfica, que se extiende desde parte sur del Noroeste argentino hasta la Provincia de Mendoza y tuerce su dirección hacia el Océano Atlántico, donde llega hasta la Península de Valdés.

La Tierra es mucho más que tierra: es rocas, vapores, polvo de estrellas.

An authoritative illustrated guide to the fearsome predators that dominated the Mesozoic world for 180 million yearsNew discoveries are transforming our understanding of the theropod dinosaurs, revealing startling new insights into the lives and look of these awesome predators.

Este libro pretende dar a conocer de forma práctica los aspectos relacionados con el Marketing, la Administración y la Gerencia básica para las mipymes colombianas.

El objetivo principal de este texto es presentar, de una forma rigurosa y cuantitativa, los fundamentos necesarios para el diseño de los equipos de control de la contaminación atmosférica.

Al revisar la historia, la energía eléctrica, a partir de su aplicación comercial, ha sido un factor determinante para la economía y el desarrollo social que, si bien inicialmente fueron hidráulicas de baja potencia con generadores de corriente continua, posteriormente se logró aumentar la potencia y la capacidad de transmisión al utilizar generadores de corriente alterna.

Ernesto Bassi traza la configuración de un espacio geográfico que él llama el Gran Caribe transimperial entre 1760 y 1860.

El libro desarrolla una reflexión en torno a la problemática ambiental a partir de las discusiones y articulaciones del pensamiento ambiental desde diferentes perspectivas disciplinares: la filosofía, la sociología, la educación, la política y la tecnología.

A medio camino entre la escala del Universo y la de las partículas atómicas, la estructura y composición de la Tierra responde a reacciones entre los elementos químicos, que dan origen a los más variados compuestos.

Se suele clasificar los temas de la Construcción en 4 ramas: Movimiento de Tierra, Edificación, Administración y Legislación.

El desafío por conseguir un crecimiento con equidad de la población, exige la incorporación del sector rural al proceso de desarrollo del país; logro, que requiere dotar a la población de energía eléctrica; herramienta que le permite mejorar su calidad de vida y promueve el desarrollo de sus actividades productivas.

El objetivo principal de la Guía Básica para la Caracterización Morfométrica de Cuencas Hidrográficas es dar a conocer de forma clara el cálculo de las características morfométricas más importantes en el estudio hidrológico de cuencas, así como la interpretación de los resultados obtenidos.

El desarrollo de un libro sobre el carbón, y su utilización es una tarea compleja, pues implica abordarlo como un producto de la naturaleza que posee características variables, diversas propiedades y multiples usos, el cual ha sido objeto de gran cantidad de estudios e investigaciones.