Geology list 69

Alaska Dinosaurs

An Ancient Arctic World

by Anthony R. Fiorillo
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Anthony Fiorillo has been exploring the Arctic since 1998. For him, like many others, the Arctic holds the romance of uncharted territory, extreme conditions, and the inevitable epic challenges that arise. For Fiorillo, however, the Arctic also holds the secrets of the history of life on Earth, and...

Soil Pollution

Origin, Monitoring & Remediation

by Ibrahim Mirsal
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

This graduate-level text and reference work is unique among the soil literature. It deals with the interdisciplinary fields of soil pollution and remediation. It starts off with a thorough and comprehensible introduction to the relevant fundamentals of mineralogy, chemistry, and soil properties. Readers...

Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems

by Thomas S. Bianchi, Elizabeth A. Canuel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems. Defining a chemical biomarker as a compound that can be linked to particular sources of organic matter identified in the sediment record, the book indicates that the application of these...

Recarbonization of the Biosphere

Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle

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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012

Human activities are significantly modifying the natural global carbon (C) cycles, and concomitantly influence climate, ecosystems, and state and function of the Earth system. Ever increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) are added to the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion but the biosphere is...

Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments

Nitrogen, Acidity and Metals in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015

This book provides a unique overview of research methods over the past 25 years assessing critical loads and temporal effects of the deposition of air pollutants. It includes critical load methods and applications addressing acidification, eutrophication and heavy metal pollution of terrestrial and...

Microbial Sediments

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly developing field of microbial sediments, featuring excellent artwork. It contains authoritative and stimulating contributions by distinguished authors that cover the field and set the scene for future advances.

Impact of Natural Hazards on Oil and Gas Extraction

The South Caspian Basin

by Ian Lerche, Elchin Bagirov
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union almost a decade ago, there has been rapid evolution of interactions between the Western nations and individual countries of the former Soviet Union. As part of that interaction, the autonomous independent Republic of Azerbaijan through its scientific arm,...

Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales

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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales, often simultaneously. Methodology is important in science,...

Geopedology

An Integration of Geomorphology and Pedology for Soil and Landscape Studies

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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015

This book offers a proven approach for reliable mapping of soil-landscape relationships to derive information for policy, planning and management at scales ranging from local to regional. It presents the theoretical and conceptual framework of the geopedologic approach and a bulk of applied research...

Physical and Chemical Dissolution Front Instability in Porous Media

Theoretical Analyses and Computational Simulations

by Chongbin Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014

This monograph provides state-of-the-art theoretical and computational findings from investigations on physical and chemical dissolution front instability problems in porous media, based on the author’s own work. Although numerical results are provided to complement theoretical ones, the focus of...

Physical Sensors for Biomedical Applications

by Michael R. Neuman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018

The material in this book is based upon a two-day workshop on solid state physical sensors for biomedical applications held in Huron, Ohio, December 8-9, 1977. The individual sections of the book are based upon presentations made by the authors at the workshop. Each presentation was transcribed and...

Anthropogenic Geomorphology

A Guide to Man-Made Landforms

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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010

Anthropogenic geomorphology studies society’s impact on the geographical environment, and especially on the Earth’s surface. This volume provides guidance to students discussing the basic topics of anthropogenic geomorphology. The chapters cover both its system, and its connections with other...