Earth sciences

In Nordic literature a remarkable discussion of the northern light appears in Kongespeilet (The King's Mirror) a thirteenth-century Norwegian chronicle.

It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi- nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column.

Aquatic chemistry is becoming both a rewarding and substantial area of inquiry and is drawing many prominent scientists to its fold.

I am pleased to be able to introduce this book by Monsieur lean-Claude Gall, firstly because it is a book, secondly because its author has been a colleague for 15 years, and finally because it is a book which demonstrates the growing importance of Palaeobiology.

Coated grains have always attracted attention, at first of naturalists, and later of geologists, and the interest in these peculiar bodies was re- lated both to their intriguing form and their significance in facies inter- pretation and sedimentology and to their relevance to accumulations of hydrocarbons and other mineral deposits.

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Sym- posium on North Sea Dynamics which was held in Hamburg, August 31 - September 4, 1981.

Progress in Precambrian geology has been exceptionally great, indeed quite striking for geologists of the older generation; only some 30-40 years ago the Precambrian appeared as an uncertain and even mystic prelude to geologic evolution.

When, in 1966, the Gennan Research Society directed the attention of oceanographers in the Federal Republic of Ger- many to problems of marine pollution, I was not enthusiastic.

The enormous public interest of specialists as well as of engaged and concerned citizens in the energy problem can be understood in view of the fact that the future of national and world-wide economy depends on the availability of sufficient primary energy.

In May 1976 Lucian B.

Students of a phenomenon as common but complex as andesite genesis often are overwhelmed by, or overlook, the volume and diversity of relevant information.

During the 2nd International Symposium on Fossil Algae, organized by the University P.

In these days of information explosion and high-cost publishing, it is perhaps only reasonable for an author to convince the reading public that it is getting something worth reading.

The present publication on karst hydrology and physical speleology combines two subjects which have up to now been treated separately.

Our colleagues from the French-speaking parts of Switzerland - the Suisses romands - and above all the committee of the 3rd Cycle, e Earth Sciences (3 Cycle, Sciences de la Terre) honored us by asking us to give a course on Isotope Geology for the year 1977.

Colloid science has been applied by soil chemists and clay mineral- ogists for many years, and some of the most important studies on the behavior of colloids have been contributed by them.

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The problem of time-and strata-bound formation of ore deposits has during the past decade become one of the most debated topics in cur- rent international discussion.

A knowledge, which is as accurate as possible of microbial ecology is indispensible for ecosystem research and environmental protection.

I was invited to write this book as part of the Minerals, Rocks and Organic Materials Series of Springer-Verlag by Professor Peter J.

Upwelling areas are among the most fertile regions of the ocean.

On May 25, 1977 a small invited group of coastal oceanographers assembled at the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook for three days of intensive discussions in a cloistered setting.

The development of mineralogy, the evolutionary changes in compre- hending the mineral substance of the earth are closely associated with the progress of research methods.

For over 30 years I have been engaged as a parasitolo- nitz, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, was arranged in the pres- gist in research on endemic diseases in our land.

Geotectonics has a special place among the geological dis- ciplines.

Over the last dozen years there has been a great development in the study of matter on the micro-scale by means of the light microscope, which has coincided with the rapid growth of auto- mation and the use of computers.

The determination of crustal structure by means of explo- sion seismology has been one of the major objectives of the European Seismological Commission (ESC) over the past twenty-five years.

The International Association for Mathematical Geology, in conjunc- tion with the International Geological Congress, sponsored two symposia in Montreal, Canada, September 1972.

This volume, although not an integrated synthesis, treats most aspects of Holocene sedimenta- tion and diagenesis in the Persian Gulf, grouping 22 contributions under a single cover and in one language.

No other disjunct pieces of land present such striking similarities as the widely sepa- 1 rated regions with a mediterranean type of climate, that is, the territories fringing the Mediterranean Sea, California, Central Chile and the southernmost strips of South Mrica and Australia.

This book represents the results of a lengthy study which Professor ALFRED RITTMANN began some thirty years ago.

and their identification obviates individual thermochemical studies on every genus.

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

At first glance it may seem presumptuous to want to add yet another to the numerous books on Differential Thermal Analysis (DT A).

In 1971 I published a review of ichnology other concentrating only on traces made (Houston AAPG: SEPM Trace Fossil Field by a certain group of organisms, regardless Trip Guidebook) that I thought could be of their setting.

The major components of most soils are inorganic.