Geology category: 1681 books
Nickel Sulfide Ores and Impact Melts
Origin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Nickel Sulfide Ores and Impact Melts: Origin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex presents a current state of understanding on the geology and ore deposits of the Sudbury Igneous Complex in Ontario, Canada. As the first complete reference on the subject, this book explores the linkage between the processes...
Structural Geology Algorithms
Vectors and Tensors
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
State-of-the-art analysis of geological structures has become increasingly quantitative but traditionally, graphical methods are used in teaching. This innovative lab book provides a unified methodology for problem-solving in structural geology using linear algebra and computation. Assuming only limited...
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters—each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon—Donald R. Prothero recounts...
Landscape Evolution in the United States
An Introduction to the Geography, Geology, and Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Landscape Evolution in the United States is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and application within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology, and climatology of the United States. Landscape evolution refers to the changing terrain of any given area of the Earth's crust...
Global Environment
Water, Air, and Geochemical Cycles - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
This newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes. Retaining the strengths of the original edition while incorporating...
by Norman Fry
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Geological Society of London Handbook Series Edited by KeithCox
Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London has beenpublishing since 1845 and now distributes its journal to Fellowsthroughout the world. This Handbook is published as part ofa series of authoritative practical guides to...
by Alan P. Dickin
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The third edition of Radiogenic Isotope Geology examines revolutionary changes in geochemical thinking that have occurred over the past fifteen years. Extinct-nuclide studies on meteorites have called into question fundamental geochemical models of the Earth, while new dating methods have challenged...
Petroleum Geoscience
From Sedimentary Environments to Rock Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This comprehensive textbook presents an overview of petroleum geoscience for geologists active in the petroleum industry, while also offering a useful guide for students interested in environmental geology, engineering geology and other aspects of sedimentary geology. In this second edition, new chapters...
by Caineng Zou
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Unconventional Petroleum Geology is the first book of its kind to collectively identify, catalog, and assess the exploration and recovery potential of the Earth's unconventional hydrocarbons. Advances in hydrocarbon technology and petroleum development systems have recently made the exploration of...
Petrophysics
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Petrophysics is the science of evaluating the rock and fluid properties of oil, gas and water reservoirs through the acquisition of physical samples, electrical, chemical, nuclear and magnetic data acquired by surface logging, downhole coring, and drilling and wireline sondes. The evaluation, analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
This book on geology and hydrogeology of carbonate islands is volume 54 in the Developments in Sedimentology series.
by Thomas George Bonney
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Lyell, while still a young man, determined that he would endeavour to put geology--then only beginning to rank as a science--on a more sound and philosophical basis. To accomplish this purpose, he spared no labour, grudged no expenditure, shrank from no fatigue.
The Omega-Theory
A New Physics of Earthquakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
The Omega-Theory: A New Physics of Earthquakes, Second Edition offers a unifying, mathematical framework to describe and answer the most pressing and unexamined dilemmas of earthquake sequences. Those in the fields of seismology and geology are currently faced with a vast and complex mathematical...
Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals
Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China. These played a role in the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a modern science in that country. This second volume of the sub-series Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province,...