Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Radiocarbon and Climate Change
Mechanisms, Applications and Laboratory Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book is a useful guide for researchers in ecology and earth science interested in the use of accelerator mass spectrometry technology. The development of research in radiocarbon measurements offers an opportunity to address the human impact on global carbon cycling and climate change. Presenting...
Geostatistics Explained
An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
A reader-friendly introduction to geostatistics for students and researchers struggling with statistics. Using simple, clear explanations for introductory and advanced material, it demystifies complex concepts and makes formulas and statistical tests easy to apply. Beginning with a critical evaluation...
Palaeoclimates and their Modelling
With special reference to the Mesozoic era
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today,...
Geomorphology of Lake-Catchment Systems
A New Perspective from Limnogeomorphology
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book presents the study of limnogeomorphology, in which past proxy data such as lacustrine sediments with information on landform development can be linked to modern observed data acquired by instruments, including hydro-geomorphological and sedimentary data.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research is the basis for advanced Earth Observation (EO) datasets used in environmental monitoring and research. Now that there are a number of satellites in orbit, EO has become imperative in today’s sciences, weather and natural disaster prediction....
Subduction Dynamics
From Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. Understanding the dynamics of the subducting slab is critical to a better understanding of the primary societally relevant natural hazards emerging from our planetary interior,...
by Leonardo Azevedo, Amílcar Soares
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book presents a geostatistical framework for data integration into subsurface Earth modeling. It offers extensive geostatistical background information, including detailed descriptions of the main geostatistical tools traditionally used in Earth related sciences to infer the spatial distribution...
Earth and Life
Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which...
Climate Change, Climate Science and Economics
Prospects for an Alternative Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
This volume enables readers to understand the complexity associated with climate change policy and the science behind it. For example, the author describes the criticism and defense of the widely known “hockey stick” temperature graph derived from combining instrumental data and proxy temperature...
Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction
The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more than 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Various effects of the atmosphere have to be considered in space geodesy and all of them are described and treated consistently in this textbook. Two chapters are concerned with ionospheric and tropospheric path delays of microwave and optical signals used by space geodetic techniques, such as the...
Living with Earth
An Introduction to Environmental Geology
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
For many students with no science background, environmental geology may be one of the only science courses they ever take. Living With Earth: An Introduction to Environmental Geology is ideal for those students, fostering a better understanding of how they interact with Earth and how their actions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Sensitivity Analysis in Earth Observation Modeling highlights the state-of-the-art in ongoing research investigations and new applications of sensitivity analysis in earth observation modeling. In this framework, original works concerned with the development or exploitation of diverse methods applied...
Ground Improvement and Earth Structures
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This volume contains research articles that cover a wide range of topics related to ground improvement and subsurface structures. Selected papers represent the state-of-the-art in the analysis and design of reinforced retaining walls, diaphragm walls and buried pipes. In addition, topics related to...