Geology category: 1681 books
Seismic Inversion
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Seismic inversion aims to reconstruct a quantitative model of the Earth subsurface, by solving an inverse problem based on seismic measurements. There are at least three fundamental issues to be solved simultaneously: non-linearity, non-uniqueness, and instability. This book covers the basic theory...
by Vlastislav Cervany, Ivan Psencik, Ludek Klimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The special issue contains contributions presented at the international workshop Seismic waves in laterally inhomogeneous media IV, which was held at the Castle of Trest, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 1995. The workshop, which was attended by about 100 seismologists from more than 10 countries, was devoted...
National Parks and Protected Areas
Keystones to Conservation and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
National parks and protected areas offer a wealth of ecological and social contributions or services to humans and life on earth. This book describes the strengths of national parks and protected areas in different parts of Europe and North America and the challenges to the full realization of their...
Mars
From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
This absorbing book tells the story of Mars since the dawn of mankind's curiosity for celestial wonders. It covers everything, right from our ancient beliefs, through the revolution in our concepts of the cosmos around us in the 1600s, to the present day knowledge and beyond. It takes the reader on...
Magnetic Fields in the Solar System
Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview...
Strangers and Neighbours
Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial records,...
La Catastrophe
The Eruption of Mount Pelée, the Worst Volcanic Eruption of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2002
On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelée loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour...
Green Stone Moldavite
The Gem that Fell from the Sky
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Stones speak with their silence as if these were the witnesses of our universe. They seem beings motionless and silent, but it isn’t true. Inside them is the secular momentum that has the universe: the eternal presence of the Supreme Being. Every stone is an expression of love. None can be discarded;...
Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars
As Translated by Patrick Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to make his own—the habitability...
Shale Gas and Fracking
The Science Behind the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Shale Gas and Fracking: The Science Behind the Controversy explains the relevant geological principles before examining the peer-reviewed evidence and presenting it through a simple and compelling illustrated narrative. Each chapter focuses on a particular controversy, such contamination of well...
Visible Bones
Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How can you know a place? Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbet—author of Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America—looks to the relics of a region to connect the present moment to the distant past. In the vast Western territory defined by the Columbia River, Nisbet...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
" ... as soon as one has traversed the greater part of the wild sea, one comes upon such a huge quantity of ice that nowhere in the whole world has the like been known." "This ice is of a wonderful nature. It lies at times quite still, as one would expect, with openings or large fjords...
The Earth as a Cradle for Life
The Origin, Evolution and Future of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The Earth as a Cradle for Life aims to fill the gap between readers who have a strong and informed scientific interest in the environment (but no access to the journal literature), and their desire for a basic understanding of the environment. It provides a comprehensive account, and requires no advanced...
Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History
Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Dynic Astropark ‘Ten-Kyu-Kan’, August 14–18, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The last decade of this century has seen a renewed interest in the dynamics and physics of the small bodies of the Solar System, Asteroids, Comets and Meteors. New observational evidences such as the discovery of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, refined numerical tools such as the symplectic integrators,...