Elsevier imprint: 4871 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
To understand the global warming mechanism, global mapping of primary production was carried out under the GCMAPS program. The program was concerned with marine and terrestrial environmental changes, which affect carbon cycle on the regional and global scales. On the regional scale, warm phase of...
Indian Shield
Precambrian Evolution and Phanerozoic Reconstitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Indian Shield: Precambrian Evolution and Phanerozoic Reconstitution highlights unique evolutionary trends covering a period of over 3,500 million years, from the oldest crust to the most recent geological activity of the Indian Subcontinent. The book discusses regional terrain geology in terms of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
This book is an overview of the state-of-the art developments in sedimentology of tsunami-induced and tsunami-affected deposits, namely tsunamiites. It also highlights new problems and issues calling for additional investigation, and provides insight into the direction for future tsunamiite researches.
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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.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
This volume represents an effort to bring together communities of land-based hydrogeology and marine hydrogeology. The issues of submarine groundwater discharge and its opposite phenomenon of seawater invasion are discussed in this book from the geophysical, geochemical, biological, and engineering...
The Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap, Iceland
Glacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms on an Active Volcano
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Lowland glaciers are usually considered the best analogs for formerly glaciated areas and as such, many Icelandic glaciers have been intensively investigated with regard to process-orientated sediment-landform interrelationships. The Mýrdalsjökull ice cap has, thus, served as an excellent "ice-age...
Earth and Life Processes Discovered from Subseafloor Environments
A Decade of Science Achieved by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP: 2000-2013) has provided crucial records of past and present processes and interactions within and between the biosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. Research in IODP encompasses a wide range of fundamental and applied issues that...
Isotope Geochemistry
The Origin and Formation of Manganese Rocks and Ores
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Isotope Geochemistry: The Origin and Formation of Manganese Rocks and Ores is a comprehensive reference on global manganese deposits, including their origins and formations. Manganese is both a significant industrial chemical, critical for steel-making, and a strategic mineral, occurring in abundance...
by Nikolay Voutchkov
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Desalination is a comprehensive reference on all existing and emerging seawater pretreatment technologies used for desalination. The book focuses on reverse osmosis membrane desalination, which at present is the most widely applied technology for the production of...
Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Techniques and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Metallurgical Failure Analysis: Techniques and Case Studies explores how components fail and what measures should be taken to avoid future failures. The book introduces the subject of failure analysis; covers the fundamentals and methodology of failure analysis, including fracture and fractography...
Are We Safe Enough?
Measuring and Assessing Aviation Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Are We Safe Enough? Measuring and Assessing Aviation Security explains how standard risk analytic and cost-benefit analysis can be applied to aviation security in systematic and easy-to-understand steps. The book evaluates and puts into sensible context the risks associated with air travel, the risk...
Solar Energy Markets
An Analysis of the Global Solar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This groundbreaking new book features holistic coverage of technological breakthroughs, financing trends, workforce development issues, and comparative regional case studies in solar energy. It provides a global bird's-eye view of the industry for scientists, engineers, business leaders, and policymakers...
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Release Date: October 11, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1996
As salmonids have been reared for more than a century in many countries, one might expect that principles are well established and provide a solid foundation for salmonid aquaculture. Indeed, some of the methods used today in salmonid rearing are nearly identical to those employed one hundred years...
Carbon Dioxide Utilisation
Closing the Carbon Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Carbon Dioxide Utilisation: Closing the Carbon Cycle explores areas of application such as conversion to fuels, mineralization, conversion to polymers, and artificial photosynthesis as well as assesses the potential industrial suitability of the various processes. After an introduction to the thermodynamics,...