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by Jane H. Hodgkinson, Frank D. Stacey
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
This self-contained handbook provides a carefully researched, compact source of key earth science information and data, logically sorted by subject matter, and then cross-referenced. Appealing to both experts and non-experts alike, the book presents earth science and environmental science as closely...
Advanced Mineralogy
Volume 3: Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, and Jewelry
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This volume of Advanced Mineralogy encompasses six different areas having two features in common: they are related to one of the largest enterprises of the second half of this century; and represent the ultimate and final extension of the concept of mineral matter. - Understanding mineral matter in...
Understanding Earth Observation
The Electromagnetic Foundation of Remote Sensing
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This volume addresses the physical foundation of remote sensing. The basic grounds are presented in close association with the kinds of environmental targets to monitor and with the observing techniques. The book aims at plugging the quite large gap between the thorough and quantitative description...
Timescales of Magmatic Processes
From Core to Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today. Since the Earth’s origin 4.55 billion years ago magmatic processes have continued to shape the Earth, producing the major reservoirs that exist today (core,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since human beings first appeared on the earth, we have changed land cover and land use for our own purposes, such as conveniences and high productivity. As a result of the land cover and land use changes, many serious environmental problems occur on the earth. Studying meteorological and hydrological...
Looking into the Earth
An Introduction to Geological Geophysics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2000
Looking Into the Earth comprehensively describes the principles and applications of both 'global' and 'exploration' geophysics on all scales. It forms an introduction to geophysics suitable for those who do not necessarily intend to become professional geophysicists, including geologists, civil engineers,...
by Andrew Y. Glikson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Archaean terrains contain a wealth of structural, stratigraphic, textural, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic features allowing insights into the nature of the early Earth. This book is based on studies during 1964-2007 of Archaean terrains in Australia and to a lesser extent in South Africa...
Political Theology of the Earth
Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the...
Earth System Responses to Global Change
Contrasts Between North and South America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1993
This book examines the differences and similarities in the earth system components - the ocean, atmosphere, and the land - between western portions of the northern and southern Western Hemispheres, past, present, and projected. The book carefully examines the physical and biological patterns and responses...
The Twin Sister Planets Venus and Earth
Why are they so different?
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book explains how it came to be that Venus and Earth, while very similar in chemical composition, zonation, size and heliocentric distance from the Sun, are very different in surface environmental conditions. It is argued here that these differences can be accounted for by planetoid capture processes...
Plate Deformation from Cradle to Grave
Seismic Anisotropy and Deformation at Mid-Ocean Ridges and in the Lowermost Mantle
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The Earth's rocky mantle convects to lose heat, which comes from the liquid iron core below. The mantle's interfaces - the core-mantle boundary, and the lithosphere - may hold the key to understanding mantle motion because of the seismic anisotropy present in these parts of the Earth.
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The Earth Brokers
Power, Politics and World Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
**The SAGE Handbook of Nature **offers an ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences.
The three volumes are divided into the following parts:
INTRODUCTION...
by Pauline E Kneale
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
There are moments in everyone's degree when you are expected to do something unfamiliar and daunting - present a seminar, go on a fieldtrip, create a wiki page, lead a lab team - and how to do it or what to expect is unclear. Studying at university requires a different approach from studying at school...