Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Alexander Stahr, Ewald Langenscheidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
This image atlas and reference book is written in simple language that can be understood by a broad audience. The work comprehensively explains the geomorphological forms of high mountains using many examples like glacial erosion forms and deposits such as moraines and gravel terraces, which are...
by Charles H. M. Beck, Louis Neal Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The Evolutionary Imperative provides a unifying perspective on the evolution of the universe in all its physical and biological detail, with a call to action for redirecting the evolutionary trajectory of human society in a way that will preserve the planet and improve the human condition. The book's...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Drought is one of the major natural hazards, resulting in significant economic, social, and environmental costs. In Europe, water shortage is an important problem in many regions. However, despite the increasing awareness of this hazard, there is no European drought policy and institutional frameworks...
Climate Change Impacts
Select Proceedings of ICWEES-2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society. The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with some aspects of climatic characteristics ranging from changes in temperature and sunshine hours to downscaling to global climate...
Biogeochemistry of Ancient and Modern Environments
Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB) and, Conference on Biogeochemistry in Relation to the Mining Industry and Environmental Pollution (Leaching Conference), held in Canberra, Australia, 26 August
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume contains a selection of papers presented to the Fourth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB), and a conference on Biogeochemistry in Relation to Mining Industry and Environmental Pollution (Leaching Conferenc~, held in Canberra, Aust ralia on August 26-31 and September...
by B. Amadei, O. Stephansson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Rock masses are initially stressed in their current in situ state of stress and to a lesser natural state. Whether one is interested in the extent on the monitoring of stress change. formation of geological structures (folds, faults, The subject of paleostresses is only briefly intrusions, etc. ),...
Geoscience Research and Outreach
Schools and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
From energy and water resources to natural disasters, and from changing climatic patterns to the evolution of the Earth’s deep interior, geoscience research affects people’s lives in many ways and on many levels. This book offers a stimulating cross-disciplinary perspective on the important relationship...
by William Bajjali
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This textbook is a step-by-step tutorial on the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in environmental and water resource issues. It provides information about GIS and its applications, specifically using the most advanced ESRI GIS technology and its extensions.
Eighteen chapters...
by Andrew Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Mathematical Geoscience is an expository textbook which aims to provide a comprehensive overview of a number of different subjects within the Earth and environmental sciences. Uniquely, it treats its subjects from the perspective of mathematical modelling with a level of sophistication that is appropriate...
All The Clues Are There
"...And the Earth Did Move"
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
"It'll knock your socks off!" Scott, controlling the podium's cockpit command module, interjected. Although his 87 year old grandfather, astrophysicist Doctor Thomas Charles Blackthorn, is resigning as chairman of Global Scientists' Symposium (GSS), he...
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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...
Icebergs
Their Science and Links to Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Icebergs are a prime example of an environmental phenomenon that brings together multiple disciplines in the polar sciences, from the physics of calving and melting to the geology of their solid deposits and sea floor interactions. Icebergs are also increasingly seen to play key roles in past and...
Metals and Society
An Introduction to Economic Geology
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
In the second edition Steve Kesler (University of Michigan) has been added as an author to rewrite some chapters. The motivation for this revised edition is to more intensively address economic issues that surround the exploitation of mineral resources. This emphasis gives the book a unique character....
Physical and Biological Bases of Life Stability
Man, Biota, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is well known that the biochemical processes of life on Earth are maintained by the external solar radiation and can be reduced to the synthesis and decomposition of organic matter. Man has added the synthesis and decomposition of various in dustrial products to these natural processes. On one...