Geology category: 1681 books
The Vascular Flora of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise (Central Italy)
An Annotated Checklist
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
This book provides an updated list of the vascular flora of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, incorporating the latest nomenclatural and floristic findings.
The list of plants was extrapolated from a geographic database including all data from floristic or vegetational references...
Gaia’s Body
Toward a Physiology of Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
If the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have something like a physiology. It must have systems and processes that perform living functions. In Gaia's Body, Tyler Volk describes the environment that enables the biosphere to exist, various ways of looking at its "anatomy"...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book aims to give an overview on the present state of volcanic lake research, covering topics such as volcano monitoring, the chemistry, dynamics and degassing of acidic crater lakes, mass-energy-chemical-isotopic balance approaches, limnology and degassing of Nyos-type lakes, the impact on the...
Neogene Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy of Argentina
The Chaco-Paranense Basin and the Península de Valdés
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This book gathers and updates the most significant advances of the last two centuries and presents an unprecedented micro paleontological study covering more than 20 stratigraphic sections. This information is supplemented by numerous sedimentological observations and analyses, on the basis of which...
Environmental Management and Governance
Advances in Coastal and Marine Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book deals with recent advances in coastal marine environmental management and governance. Various chapters consider new aspects of conservation, assessment of ecosystem health status, environmental survey and protection, frameworks of ocean service and governance, new applications of geo processing...
by Ram Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Cratons and Fold Belts of India, is a unique attempt at presenting geological characteristics and evolution of the fold belts and the cratonic areas of the Indian shield. The author has evaluated the different evolutionary models for each fold belt in light of all the currently available geological...
by Amanat Chaudhry
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Gas Well Testing Handbook deals exclusively with theory and practice of gas well testing, pressure transient analysis techniques, and analytical methods required to interpret well behavior in a given reservoir and evaluate reservoir quality, simulation efforts, and forecast producing capacity. A highly...
Environmental Planning for Oceans and Coasts
Methods, Tools, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This book informs environmental planning professionals, students and those interested in oceans and coasts from an environmental perspective about what is needed for planning and management of these unique environments. It is comprised of twelve chapters organized in three parts. Part I highlights...
Basement Tectonics 7
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 1987
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 1987
by Elsevier Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scientific...
The Bengal Delta
Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces
Techniques and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surface: Techniques and Methods brings essential coverage of the space techniques of observation on continental surfaces. The authors explore major applications and provide detailed chapters on physical principles, physics of measurement, and data processing for each...
The Finite-Difference Modelling of Earthquake Motions
Waves and Ruptures
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Among all the numerical methods in seismology, the finite-difference (FD) technique provides the best balance of accuracy and computational efficiency. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to FD and its applications to earthquake motion. Using a systematic tutorial approach, the book requires...
Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards
Proceedings of the 2015 Barcelona Asteroid Day
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015. The proceedings discuss the beginning of a new era in the study and exploration of the solar system’s minor bodies. International Asteroid Day commemorates...