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by Yu. M. Sheinmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is a pleasure to any author to enlarge the circle of his readers. Naturally this is a pleasure to me. At the same time, however, misgivings arise: whether these pages will con vey to the circle of new readers the thoughts that excite the author. Science is advancing rapidly in our day. It is...
Archaean Geochemistry
The Origin and Evolution of the Archaean Continental Crust
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Archaean Geochemistry 1972 - 1984 The realisation that the continental crust contains well-preserved relics which date as far back as 4/5 of the Earth's age has given a great impetus to the study of early Precambrian terrains. As late as the mid-sixties the Archaean still constituted the 'terra-in...
Geophysical Waves and Flows
Theory and Applications in the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere and Geosphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Waves and flows are pervasive on and within Earth. This book presents a unified physical and mathematical approach to waves and flows in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, emphasizing the common physical principles and mathematical methods that apply to a variety of phenomena...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The earth where we live is the only planet of our solar system that holds a mass of water we know as the ocean, covering 70.8% of the earth's surface with a mean depth of 3,800 m. When using the term ocean, we mean not only the water and what it contains, but also the bottom that supports the water...
by R.P. Hall, D.J. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Basic magmatic rocks make up approximately three-quarters of the crust ofthe present day Earth. Because we can observe and study the volcanic products of present day tectonic regimes comprehensively, we can shed light on ancient tectono-magmatic provinces, and thereby deduce the petrogenesis and evolution...
by Umesh Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
A Systematic Approach presents the topics essential for a clear understanding of human and physical Geography. The techniques of cartography, survey, mathematics and statistics are covered lucidly in this book. Geography is the study of Earth, its lands, features, and inhabitants. Just about every...
by V.I. Osipov
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
This book analyses the state of the natural environment and the causes of its degradation using the biosphere approach. Further, those issues that must be resolved immediately on the global level are identified following the ideas defined by V.I. Vernadsky, and new principles of Man-Nature interaction...
International Symposium on Advancing Geodesy in a Changing World
Proceedings of the IAG Scientific Assembly, Kobe, Japan, July 30 – August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
These proceedings contain 23 papers, which are the peer-reviewed versions of presentations made at the Joint Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI). The assembly was held from...
by Derek Wall
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Sebastian Regber
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Environmental Studies, grade: B, , language: English, abstract: 'Global warming is a general increase in world temperatures caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide around the Earth.'(Jarman,...
by John R. Ratner
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Cinquecento anni fa gli scienziati più saggi del mondo, credevano che la terra era piatta. Persino quando riuscirono a scorgere l’ombra rotonda della terra impressa sulla superficie lunare durante un’eclisse, spiegarono il fenomeno come un effetto ottico, legato alla forma rotonda della luna....
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was...
The Fossil Hunter
Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day.
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
This volume is devoted to management accounting approaches for analyzing business benefits and costs of climate change. It discusses future directions on carbon accounting, performance measurement and reporting as well as links between climate accounting and business processes, product and service...