Geology category: 1681 books
Desertification
Natural Background and Human Mismanagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After UNCED (United Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, July 1992), a second edition of Desertification was necessary. About 150 corrections, amendments and additions take scientific progress into account. The author also presents an updated chapter in which the results of UNCED...
by Frits Agterberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
This book provides a wealth of geomathematical case history studies performed by the author during his career at the Ministry of Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada (NRCan-GSC). Several of the techniques newly developed by the author and colleagues that are described in this book...
The History of Salt
With Observations on the Geographical Distribution, Geological Formation, Etc.
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
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How frequently it happens that those natural productions with which we are to a certain extent superficially familiar, are to a great many not only uninteresting, but are regarded as subjects more or less beneath their notice; and by others as deleterious...
Optical Remote Sensing of Land Surface
Techniques and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The considerable progress in instrumentation and in the development of methods for the processing and analysis of data places remote sensing at the center of various international programs for the surveillance and tracking of climatic and anthropogenic changes and effects on the environment. This...
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes
How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Newly discovered scientific proof validating the legends and myths of ancient floods, fires, and weather extremes
• Presents new scientific evidence revealing the cause of the end of the last ice age and the cycles of geological events and species extinctions that followed
• Connects...
Biopolymers
A molecular paleontology approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book provides an overview, research compendium and an introduction to the science of molecular paleontology, including literature overview for non-geochemists. Analytical methods employed are included as a part of each chapter that underpin this branch of paleontology and indeed geochemistry....
Absolute Age Determination
Physical and Chemical Dating Methods and Their Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages. A rela tive geochronology...
Amazonite
Mineralogy, Crystal Chemistry, and Typomorphism
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Amazonite: Mineralogy, Crystal Chemistry and Typomorphism provides in-depth coverage of the geological setting, mineralogy, chemistry,spectroscopic parameters, typomorphic features, and potential technological and economical uses associated with amazonite discovery. Featuring detailed characterization...
by Roy Livermore
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Plate tectonics is a revolutionary theory on a par with modern genetics. Yet, apart from the frequent use of clichés such as 'tectonic shift' by economists, journalists, and politicians, the science itself is rarely mentioned and poorly understood. This book explains modern plate tectonics in a non-technical...
Rough-Hewn Land
A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains." In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million...
Surf, Sand, and Stone
How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Southern California is sandwiched between two tectonic plates with an ever-shifting boundary. Over the last several million years, movements of these plates have dramatically reshuffled the Earth’s crust to create rugged landscapes and seascapes riven with active faults. Movement along these faults...
David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work
An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
During a meteoric career that spanned from 1825 to 1834, David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna over many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest. Despite his early death, colleagues in Great Britain attached the Douglas name to more than 80 different species, including...