Geophysics

Bow Ties in Process Safety and Environmental Management: Current Trends and Future Perspectives aims to combine the process safety aspects and the potential dangers to the ecology including the source of the contamination, and especially, the unbalanced utilization of toxic chemicals in process industries.

With its integrated and cohesive coverage of the current research, Magmatic Systems skillfully explores the physical processes, mechanics, and dynamics of volcanism.

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the various fields of classical and modern astronomy.

Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts.

Seeing Stars is written for astronomers, regardless of the depth of their theoretical knowledge, who are taking their first steps in observational astronomy.

Shock waves produce a wide variety of physical, chemical, mineralogical, and other effects in materials through which they pass.

Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones bridges the gap between the classic plate tectonic theory and new emerging ideas, offering an assessment of the state-of-the-art, pending questions, and future directions in the study of transform plate boundaries and fracture zones.

Treatise on Geophysics: Mineral Physics, Volume 2, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of understanding of mineral physics.

This book presents the forensic geoscience in general and, in particular, in Italy and their application to peculiar crimes.

The Mjolnir impact structure was recognized in 1993 and included in the Earth Impact Database in 1996, based on the discoveries of unequivocal meteorite impact indicators such as shocked quartz, Ir-enrichments, possible glass remnants, fragments of nickel-rich iron oxides, in addition to the convincing complex crater shape of the structure.

This book introduces the subject of probabilistic analysis to engineers and can be used as a reference in applying this technology.

This book gathers peer-reviewed research articles on recent advances concerning the geology, geophysics, tectonics, geochronology, sedimentology, igneous petrology, paleo-climate and paleo-oceanography of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India and the adjoining ocean basins.

Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts and Technologies: A Multidisciplinary Perspective serves as an introduction to hydraulic fracturing and provides balanced coverage of its benefits and potential negative effects.

Mathematics is a universal language.

Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.

Extrapolation of seismic waves from the earth's surface to any level in the subsurface plays an essential role in many advanced seismic processing schemes, such as migration, inverse scattering and redatuming.

Archaeological Geophysics for Ephemeral Human Occupations: Focusing on the Small-Scale combines technological advances in near-surface geophysics with recent archaeological scholarship and underlying archaeological premises to provide a practical manual for guiding archaeo-geophysical research design.

This book presents an easy-to-use tool for time series analysis and allows the user to concentrate upon studying time series properties rather than upon how to calculate the necessary estimates.

Vitamins and Hormones

Fifty years after Sputnik, artificial satellites have become indispensable monitors in many areas, such as economics, meteorology, telecommunications, navigation and remote sensing.

The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the implosion of financial markets and economies around the globe.

Proper waste disposal is still a serious concern worldwide.

This practical guide demonstrates the successful application of geophysical techniques in periglacial environments through international field studies.

Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments, Second Edition examines ecosystems at the most extreme habitats and their interaction with the environment, providing a key element in our understanding of the role and function of microorganisms in nature.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of one of the oldest and best-exposed Archaean cratons on this planet.

Pesticde use in agriculture and non-agriculture settings has increased dramatically over the last several decades.

This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming.

Stress Field of the Earth's Crust is based on lecture notes prepared for a course offered to graduate students in the Earth sciences and engineering at University of Potsdam.

This book contains 20 papers reflecting the state-of-the-art tsunami research.

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global.

All existing introductory reviews of mineralogy are written accord- ing to the same algorithm, sometimes called the "e;Dana System of Mineralogy"e;.

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This book offers various soil and water treatment technologies due to increasing global soil and water pollution.

Global Physical Climatology is an introductory text devoted to the fundamental physical principles and problems of climate sensitivity and change.

The first comprehensive guide to SAC, complete with introductory materials and detailed descriptions of its most advanced features.

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Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation.

Addressing the persistent environmental threat of organic chemicals with a fresh approach to degradation and transformation processes, Organic Chemicals in the Environment: Mechanisms of Degradation and Transformation, Second Edition examines a wide range of compounds as well as abiotic and microbiological reactions mediated by microorganisms

This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice.

In hard rock terrain, shallow water wells generally have a poor to moderate yield.

Analysis and Control System Techniques for Electric Power Systems, Part 1 is the first volume of a four volume sequence in this series devoted to the significant theme of "e;"e;Analysis and Control Techniques for Electric Power Systems.

This is an introductory textbook on global spectral modeling designed for senior-level undergraduates and possibly for first-year graduate students.

Summarises the currently available seismic and engineering data pertaining to the seismic hazard of the capitals of the Central Asian republics.

Sea ice is a major component of polar environments, especially in the Arctic where it covers the entire Arctic Ocean throughout most of the year.

This volume is devoted to the application of the integral equations method (IEM) and boundary elements method (BEM) to problems involving the sounding of geological media using direct current (DC).

"e;Characteristics of Chinese Petroleum Geology: Geological Features and Exploration Cases of Stratigraphic, Foreland and Deep Formation Traps"e; systematically presents the progress made in petroleum geology in China and highlights the latest advances and achievements in oil/gas exploration and research, especially in stratigraphic, foreland and deep formation traps.