Earth sciences

More than 4000 beaches distributed along the Brazilian coastline are one of the country's main assets.

This book presents all Malacostracan cructaceans occurring in the Baltic Sea in water salinity from 2 to 15 psu.

The book encompasses a set of papers on meteorological tsunamis covering various aspects on this rare but potentially destructive multiresonant phenomenon.

Radiogenic Isotopes Applied to Mineral Exploration: A Practical Guide assists mineral exploration geologists, students and professors in the field of metallogeny and ore deposits.

Central-Southern Italy and the Tyrrhenian Sea are the sites of extensive Plio-Quaternary magmatic activity.

Nandigram, a riverine village in southern West Bengal, is well knowr ail over the globe after the tragedy in 2007 on the conflicting issue of proposed land acquisition lor petrochemical hub.

The authors have done an outstanding job of compiling decades of data collected by their own field reconnaissance and other geoscientists.

This beginning graduate textbook teaches data science and machine learning methods for modeling, prediction, and control of complex systems.

This thesis describes the occurrence of microbial and chemical contaminants in swimming pools and the investigation of an alternative disinfection technology, UVOX Redox(R) that could reduce reliance on chlorine and the formation of chlorinated disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in swimming pools.

A comprehensive handbook on state-of-the-art DAS technology and applications Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a technology that records sound and vibration signals along a fiber optic cable.

This book provides a new design and evaluation framework based on slope Stochastic Dynamics theory to probabilistic seismic performance for slope engineering.

The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and usRivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work?

This book offers a fresh, comprehensive outlook on a paramount global challenge: climate change, seamlessly integrating intricate themes like climate science, innovative technology solutions, strategic business models, essential investments, and societal impacts.

Geomorphology of Central America is authored by a scientist with more than 30 years of regional assessment research experience in Central American countries, arming scientists with a classic research method-a method most effective when applied to specific geographic regions globally.

This volume synthesizes research from a five year program supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development to assess how coastal communities in Tanzania can adapt to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, and better assert their rights to implement decisions regarding coastal resource management in the context of global climate change.

This book describes the interrelationship between the spectacular geology of an area of East Africa that includes a branch of the rift valley, as well as giant freestanding ice-capped mountains and extraordinarily toxic, alkaline lakes, and some of the greatest concentrations of wildlife on Earth.

This book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

This book introduces emergency management of barrier lakes systematically,including theories and practices, risk assessment under extremely high-riskconditions, evolution of outburst floods, analysis of anti-impact stability, andemergency management technology and assessment of risk elimination effect.

We all know that safety should be an integral part of the systems that we build and operate.

This monograph covers uniqueness of micromorphology in resolving many important but enigmatic pedological issues such as clay illuviation, formation of pedogenic and non-pedogenic CaCO3, modification of plasmic fabric, contemporary and relict pedogenic processes, polygenesis of soils in Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of the tropical Indian environments.

The Mediterranean region contains a diverse and interesting climate ranging from areas with permanent glaciers to areas of subtropical, semiarid regions.

One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).

This book offers a complete overview of the measurement of precipitation from space, which has made considerable advancements during the last two decades.

This book is dedicated to the analysis of bottom waters flows through underwater channels of the Atlantic Ocean.

A unique, thought-provoking journey from early humans'' evolutionary response to climate change to today''s global crisis, for students and the general reader.

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel.

Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary research, requiring input from both the earth and life sciences.

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

Modern Statistical Methodology and Software for Analyzing Spatial Point PatternsSpatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R shows scientific researchers and applied statisticians from a wide range of fields how to analyze their spatial point pattern data.

This comprehensive reference volume surveys the development of crusts on solid planets and satellites in the solar system.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current renewable energy technologies and their basic principles.

This book describes the complex interplay between Earth's surface processes (erosion and sedimentation) and human interactions.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Stand und Aufgaben hydrogeologischer Forschungen in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik" verfügbar.

The new revised edition of a classic Earth science textThis newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes.

This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, to help develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying igneous minerals, interpreting and allocating appropriate names to unknown rocks presented to them.

Published in 1913: The object of the present work is to throw some light on the theory of Descent.

This accessible and engaging text explores the relationship between philosophy, science and physical geography.

The book is devoted to the technical terminology of Structural and Tectonic Geology.

Rhodolith beds form biogenic reefs, oases of high biodiversity in sedimentary seabed environments.

As requested by Congress and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), this report assists federal agencies in crafting plans and reports that are responsive to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), OMB Guidance, and agency missions.

A technique for visualizing Earth's subsurface at high resolution Hidden out of sight in Earth s subsurface are a range of geophysical structures, processes, and material movements.

The study of paleopathology has two very different constituencies, the medical scientist and the zoologist/paleontologist/anthropologist.

Human survival depends on the availability of clean air, water, and food and on the welfare of plants and animals.

The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century   Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast.