Earth sciences

This book addresses why just about everything that we experience on Earth depends upon the ocean circulation, the movement of the ocean water.

This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.

During the 20th century, the city of Los Angeles diverted surface water flowing into Owens Lake for water supply, transforming the large, closed-basin, saline lake into a small brine pool surrounded by dry playa.

A synthesis of current knowledge on global extensional tectonics The extension of Earth s lithosphere occurs at divergent plate boundaries as well as in plate interiors.

The order of Catfishes (Siluriformes) is one of the largest in number of families, genera, and species.

The development of ocean sensors remains a ripe area for future investigation from science, policy and systemsengineering standpoints.

Fuzzy Systems Modeling in Environmental and Health Risk Assessment Demonstrates the successful application of fuzzy systems modeling to real-world environmental and health problems In Fuzzy Systems Modeling in Environmental and Health Risk Assessment, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an up-to-date collection of the most successful and innovative attempts to apply fuzzy logic to problems involving environmental risk assessment, healthcare decision-making, the management of water distribution networks, and the optimization of water treatment and waste management systems.

This book contained the geological investigation condition of the territory of Mongolia for uranium, the geodynamic position of the uranium mineralization.

This book bridges the gap between conventional processes and renewable energy procedures by offering a comprehensive introduction to seawater desalination technologies.

Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Proterozoic-Phanerozoic Canadian Cordilleran mobile megabelt.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

Ireland has long been the focus of research into its geological foundations and history.

This book includes original and peer-reviewed research papers presented at 11th International Conference on Coastal and Ocean Engineering, which was held during August 9-11, 2024.

Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region.

The fifth edition of this core textbook in advanced remote sensing continues to maintain its emphasis on statistically motivated, data-driven techniques for remote sensing image analysis.

The book concentrates on hydrological and geomorphological processes in mountain rivers with the majority of the contributions focusing on the Alps.

The fifth edition of this core textbook in advanced remote sensing continues to maintain its emphasis on statistically motivated, data-driven techniques for remote sensing image analysis.

Le Système Solaire n’est qu’un élément de l’Univers et de la Voie lactée, mais il possède une planète habitée, la Terre.

Wildland fires pose a growing threat to air quality and human health.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth's systems by funding research on atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, geologic, polar, ecosystem, social, and engineering-related processes.

Natural pesticides and allelochemicals are used for protection against invasive plants, but when released into the environment they can have both positive and negative effects on plants.

This book provides the readers with a description of climate change and the role of the University in promoting climate change education.

Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface, with an average depth of approximately 3,800 meters.

Currently, most of the physical and chemical technologies generally employed for the treatment of wastewater are costly and inefficient.

Medical Geology The key to understanding the relationship between the geological environment and human health Medical geology deals with of the impact of environmental factors on the health of individual human beings and communities.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

À l’instar des autres contrées du monde, la République Démocratique du Congo se retrouve de plain-pied dans la modernité numérique à la suite du processus continu d’expansion d’Internet.

Climate change poses an escalating challenge to global society, with climate-related disasters becoming more frequent, severe and widespread in their impact on individuals and communities, and in their interference with human rights.

This book presents select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2024 held at MIT, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

Microplastics have become a significant environmental concern due to their persistence, potential to accumulate in aquatic ecosystems, and ability to infiltrate the food chain.

Research supported by scientific ocean drilling has fundamentally transformed our understanding of the planet with key contributions to the discovery and theory of plate tectonics; the formation and destruction of ocean crust; the reconstruction of extreme greenhouse and icehouse climates; the identification of major extinctions; and the discovery of a diverse community of microbes living deep ocean seafloor.

There has been an exponential increase in desalination capacity both globally and nationally since 1960, fueled in part by growing concern for local water scarcity and made possible to a great extent by a major federal investment for desalination research and development.

The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments.

A strongly interdisciplinary and wide-ranging survey of the environment of life on Earth: the most authoritative and comprehensive source on environmental science to be collected together in a single volume.

This Encyclopedia comprises the current knowledge in marine geosciences whereby not only basic but also applied and technical sciences are covered.

This book reveals the main trends of the formation of petroleum pools in major parts of North African basins.

As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's geophysical and chemical properties.

An authoritative, self-contained reference text on theoretical and computational seismologyOver the past several decades, computational advances have revolutionized seismology, making it possible to simulate seismic wave propagation in complex Earth models and create detailed images of the planet's interior.

The Encyclopedia of Estuaries, part of Springer's Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, provides a single, state-of-the-art, comprehensive reference volume on estuaries for research scientists, educators, students, and others.

This book deals with the signatures left by geodynamic proceses in the temperature field of the Earth's crust.