Geology category: 1681 books
by Tony Parsons, Peter G Knight
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book provides undergraduates with a step-by-step guide to successfully carrying out an independent research project or dissertation. The book addresses each stage of the project by answering the questions that a student is likely to ask as the work progresses from choosing the subject area and...
by K. de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The first chapters are fundamental, in that the physical chemistry of calcium phosphate salts is discussed, along with mineralization (with emphasis on teeth) and remodelling of mineralized tissues. Thereafter follows a treatment of the influence of implants o surrounding hard tissues. This topic...
by V. S. Golubev
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The problem of the geochemical migration of elements has received wide attention in the works of V. I. Vernadskii and A. E. Fersman [1, 2J. Vernadskii considered geochemistry to be the science of the history of chemical elements on the earth, their distribution and move ments in space and time,...
Ocean Governance
A Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Ocean—a source of life, has been overused and heavily polluted. While the traditional approaches might not be able to solve the complexity of the ocean governance issues, there is a need to adopt a new way of thinking in order to deal with the current problems. This book emphasises the importance...
Human - Wildlife Conflicts in Europe
Fisheries and Fish-eating Vertebrates as a Model Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
This book is about conflicts between different stakeholder groups triggered by protected species that compete with humans for natural resources. It presents key ecological features of typical conflict species and mitigation strategies including technical mitigation and the design of participatory...
Our Energy Future
Introduction to Renewable Energy and Biofuels
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Our Energy Future is an introductory textbook for the study of energy production, alternative and renewable fuels, and ways to build a sustainable energy future. Jones and Mayfield explore the creation and history of fossil fuels, their impact on the environment, and how they have become critical...
by Garry Willgoose
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Computational models are invaluable in understanding the complex effects of physical processes and environmental factors which interact to influence landform evolution of geologic time scales. This book provides a holistic guide to the construction of numerical models to explain the co-evolution of...
by Pedro José Depetris, Andrea Inés Pasquini, Karina Leticia Lecomte
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In this monograph the authors present an overview of the state-of-the-art and use examples or case histories to illustrate the combined role of rock decay and rivers on continental denudation. The Earth’s surface dynamics would not be conceivable without the fundamental component of rock weathering...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Erosion is the most common cause of failures at earth-dams, dikes and levees, whether through overtopping and overflowing, or internal erosion and piping. This book is dedicated to the phenomenon of internal erosion and piping. It is not intended to be exhaustive on the subject, but brings together...
OpenGeoSys-Tutorial
Computational Hydrology I: Groundwater Flow Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This tutorial on the application of the open-source software OpenGeoSys (OGS) in computational hydrology is based on a one-week training course at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. It provides general information regarding hydrological and groundwater flow modeling...
CLEAN
CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field - GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 19
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The project CLEAN (CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field) provides site specific knowledge for a potential future pilot project. This contributed volume gives an overview and final results of the entire project which is finalized to the end of 2012.
Vegetation History and Cultural Landscapes
Case Studies from South-west Slovakia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.). The book analyses four dominant...
Enclosed Experimental Ecosystems and Scale
Tools for Understanding and Managing Coastal Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2010
Enclosed ecosystem experiments have gained in popularity as research tools in ecological science, particularly in the study of coastal aquatic environments. These systems provide scientists with a degree of experimental control that is not achievable through field experiments. Yet to date, techniques...
Meiobenthos in the Sub-equatorial Pacific Abyss
A Proxy in Anthropogenic Impact Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Against the backdrop of the environmental setting of the subequatorial NE Pacific abyssal plain, the book will characterise the meiobenthos as an ecological category in the deep sea and introduce research lines meiobenthic studies are applied to, including environmental assessments of human-induced...