Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
The Earth After Us
What legacy will humans leave in the rocks?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long dead, so too might they decode the rocks. The...
Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model
A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute...
Volcanoes
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Volcanoes are essential elements in the delicate global balance of elemental forces that govern both the dynamic evolution of the Earth and the nature of Life itself. Without volcanic activity, life as we know it would not exist on our planet. Although beautiful to behold, volcanoes are also potentially...
The Earth's Heterogeneous Mantle
A Geophysical, Geodynamical, and Geochemical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
This book highlights and discusses recent developments that have contributed to an improved understanding of observed mantle heterogeneities and their relation to the thermo-chemical state of Earth's mantle, which ultimately holds the key to unlocking the secrets of the evolution of our planet. This...
Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists
An Atlas of the Earth's Interior
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The book summarizes the results of the experimental studies of phase relations in the chemical systems relevant to Earth, carried out by the author in a time period of over 20 years between 1979 and 2001. It is based on 1000 piston-cylinder experiments at pressures up to 4 GPa, and close to 700 experiments...
Plates vs Plumes
A Geological Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Since the advent of the mantle plume hypothesis in 1971, scientists have been faced with the problem that its predictions are not confirmed by observation. For thirty years, the usual reaction has been to adapt the hypothesis in numerous ways. As a result, the multitude of current plume variants now...
Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing Systems
Understanding Magma Transport, Storage, and Evolution in the Earth's Crust
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing Systems: Understanding Magma Transport, Storage, and Evolution in the Earth's Crust synthesizes research from various geoscience disciplines to examine volcanic and igneous plumbing systems (VIPS) in-depth. VIPS comprise a network of magma transport and storage features...
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...
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Malthus (1766-1834 A.D.) told us that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. This thinking is commonly referred to as Malthusianism. At his time, Malthus was unaware that the effects of the environment...
Meteorites
Messengers from Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Meteorites - as well as shooting stars and meteors - result from a collision of a solid body from space with our Earth, but only meteorites are able to penetrate the Earth's protective shield, the atmosphere, and fall to the Earth's surface. Apart from lunar samples, they are the only materials from...
Defining the Delta
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Inspired by the Arkansas Review’s “What Is the Delta?” series of articles, Defining the Delta collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to describe and define this important region.
Here are essays examining the Delta’s physical properties,...
Fundamentals of Computational Geoscience
Numerical Methods and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Geoscience is a fundamental natural science discipline dealing with the origin, evolutionary history and behaviour of the planet Earth. As a result of its complicated and complex nature, the Earth system not only provides the necessary materials and environment for mankind to live, but also brings...
Climate Change
Observed Impacts on Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Earth's climate is always changing. As the debate over the Earth's climate has grown, the term "climate change" has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those that are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. Climate Change: Observed Impacts...
Biogeochemistry
An Analysis of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Biogeochemistry—winner of a 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Text and Academic Authors Association—considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been and are being affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular,...