Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by George H. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the chemical nature of the Earth’s early surface environment and how that led to the origin of life. This includes a detailed discussion of the likely process by which life emerged using as much quantitative information as possible. The emergence of...
The Face of the Earth
Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains—volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests—to explore how humans have made sense of our planet’s marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories, The Face of the Earth...
Celestial Shadows
Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets...
by Koresh
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The Cellular Cosmogony
by Koresh [pseud. Cyrus Reed Teed
The Cellular Cosmogony was Teed's magnum opus. Teed propounded that the surface of the earth is concave, not convex, and that the entire universe is contained within the 25,000 mile circumference of the inside-out earth. The Sun is in...
Geotrekking in Southeastern Arabia
A Guide to Locations of World-Class Geology
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
Geotrekking in Southeastern Arabia presents the world's most diverse geology and reveals some of the unique rocks that were once covered under shallow seas and are now sub-aerially exposed. This guidebook...
Nuclear Planetary Science
Planetary Science Based on Gamma-Ray, Neutron and X-Ray Spectroscopy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Nuclear planetary science has come to play an important role in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the planetary bodies in our solar system. A newly established branch of planetary science, its study aids in humankind's exploration of the present states of the structures of various planetary...
Jacobi Dynamics
A Unified Theory with Applications to Geophysics, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In their approach to Earth dynamics the authors consider the fundamentals of Jacobi Dynamics (1987, Reidel) for two reasons. First, because satellite observations have proved that the Earth does not stay in hydrostatic equilibrium, which is the physical basis of today’s treatment of geodynamics....
Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life
Lessons for Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
- How did the Sun come into existence?
- How was the Earth formed?
- How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents?
- How do you define “life”?
- How did the first life forms emerge?
- What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve?
All...
by Derek Wall
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Earth First! is one of the most controversial and well known green movements in the world and the driving force behind the anti-road campaigns of the 1990s, made famous by sabotage tactics.
Detailed accounts of major anti-road campaigns both in the UK and internationally are included, describing confrontations...
The Earth's Inner Core
Revealed by Observational Seismology
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The inner core is a planet within a planet: a hot sphere with a mass of one hundred quintillion tons of iron and nickel that lies more than 5000 kilometres beneath our feet. It plays a crucial role in driving outer core fluid motion and the geodynamo, which generates the Earth's magnetic field. This...
by Willis E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Mathematical Geography by Willis Johnson
In the greatly awakened interest in the common-school subjects during recent years, geography has received a large share. The establishment of chairs of geography in some of our greatest universities, the giving of college courses in physiography,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
This volume combines review and solicited contributions, related to scientific studies of Division I of IAGA presented at its Scientific Assembly in Sopron in 2009. The book is aimed at intermediate to advanced readers dealing with the Earth’s magnetic field generation, its historical records in...
by K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role that biomarker technology plays both in petroleum exploration and in understanding Earth history and processes. Biomarkers...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Megaflooding is the sudden discharge of exceptional volumes of water. Megafloods have significantly altered the terrain of Earth and Mars, and may have acted as triggers for climate change on these planets. Recently, research into megaflooding has made important advances: on Earth, real-time measurements...