Earth sciences

Originally published in 1995, Creation and Evolution in the Early American Scientific Affiliation is the tenth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

There have been many advances in soil chemistry since Oxford published the first edition of The Chemistry of Soils in 1989.

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

This book presents a systematic attempt to generalize several fundamental physical laws related to subsurface fluid flow that are important for a number of contemporary applications in the areas of hydrogeology, reservoir engineering and rock mechanics.

Potash is the term generally given to potassium chloride, but it is also loosely applied to the various potassium compounds used in agriculture: po- tassium sulfate, potassium nitrate or double salts of potassium and magne- sium sulfate (generally langbeinite, K S0 * 2MgS0 ).

The first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, providing an important basis for protecting threatened cities in the developing world.

This book provides essential information and recent findings on hydro-environmental issues in the Lower Danube River, particularly its hydrological and hydromorphological processes; physico-chemical features; climate and water-related hazards; and not only the biodiversity and quality but also the sustainable management and governance of its hydro-environment.

Due to increasing demand for potable and irrigation water, new scientific research is being conducted to deal with wastewater from a variety of sources.

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This book highlights the several pollutants and their derivatives that exist in water and wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, personal care products, heavy metals, pesticides, dyes etc.

A valuable guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions for ancestry estimation and biodistance analysis.

Social and natural scientists often are called upon to produce, or participate, in the pro- duction of forecasts.

The chapters in this section place the problems of vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions into the context which recur throughout the book.

Mongolia is an expansive land-locked country, tilted by tectonic forces to the North, that experiences extremes of continental climate.

The book reflects the results of the study of sedimentation history, paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography of the Arctic and Subarctic during the last 130 ka.

This textbook and reference outlines the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, emphasizing applications in geochemistry.

This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 4th International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Conference (IPPTC 2020).

The volcanic island of Iceland is a unique geological place due both to its position in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and its repeated glaciations.

This book focuses on some technical problems encountered in shield tunneling in hard-soft uneven stratum and extremely soft stratum, based on the recent shield tunneling engineering practice, and summarizes the achievements of shield tunneling in view of the technical problems from an overall and objective perspective.

The National Research Council convened a committee of experts to advise the U.

This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known.

The Forth packs more interesting historical and geographical attractions into its relatively short length than any other river in Britain.

One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information.

Fossil biomineralizarion in a geologic framework for advanced students and researchers in paleontology, Earth history, evolution, sedimentology, geochemistry, and materials science.

A compilation of papers describing the geology, engineering properties and the hazards and design issues associated with the substrata of Melbourne and its surrounds.

This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters.

This book presents information on common-to-rare organisms from around the world that inhabit freshwater habitats.

This book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Science Session OS-017, of the AOGS-AGU Joint Assembly held in Singapore in 2012 (the Asia Tsunami and Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami events).

The northeastern seaboard of North America, extending from Labrador to Cape Cod, was the first region of North America to suffer from human exploitation.

EarthScope is a major science initiative in the solid-earth sciences and has been described as "e;a new earth science initiative that will dramatically advance our physical understanding of the North American continent by exploring its three-dimensional structure through time"e;.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the detection and processing of signals in underwater acoustics.

The exercise of solving engineering problems that require optimisation procedures can be seriously affected by uncertain variables, resulting in potential underperforming solutions.

Geochemical Techniques for Identifying Sources of Ground-Water Salinization offers a comprehensive look at the threat to the United States' freshwater resources due to salinization and outlines techniques that can be used to study the problem.

Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits explores the entrainment, dispersion, and deposition of aeolian dust and dust deposits, with emphasis on transport and deposition of dust derived by deflation of surface sediments and soils.

Profusely illustrated in full colour.

Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the increasingly diverse local settings in which they are implemented.

This book provides an introduction to rocky landscapes through carefully selected images from Google Earth, discussing what they show and provides references to the sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish.

We hear a lot about how agriculture affects climate change and other environmental issues, but we hear little about how these issues affect agriculture.

As the human population growstripling in the past century while, simultaneously, quadrupling its demand for waterEarth's finite freshwater supplies are increasingly strained, and also increasingly contaminated by domestic, agricultural, and industrial wastes.

How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontologyOur understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago and whose daily behaviors are rarely reflected by the fossil record.

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction - Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making, which was held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus from 19 to 21 March 2017.

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention.

Soil degradation has serious global impacts on agronomic, economic, and sociopolitical conditions, however, statistics regarding the degree of these impacts has been largely unreliable.