Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Environmental Geography of South Asia
Contributions Toward a Future Earth Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This volume synthesizes critical environmental challenges of dynamic earth and human environment systems in South Asia emphasizing geographical dimensions. It deals with spaceborne monitoring, climate, ecohydrology, forests and biodiversity, land-use and land-cover change (LUCC), natural hazards,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
The Oligocene and Miocene Epochs comprise the most important phases in the Cenozoic global cooling that led from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth.
Recent major advances in the understanding and time-resolution of climate events taking place at this time, as well as the proliferation of studies...
by George W. Chivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The earth and moon were created before the starry system. Once, a cocoon of water was above and around the earth. All kinds of species were created at once. The universe and solar system are limitless. Seeing the original solar system coming in gives a ripple effect of going out. Gods creative theory...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
Earth Science is a fascinating subject that most kids enjoy learning about. A study guide will break the course down and show different aspects that are being taught. Course work will be arranged accordingly and areas that are important will be targeted. Kids will find this organization helpful when...
Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics
60th Anniversary of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Over the last six decades, the field of geophysics has experienced rapid development. Seismic methods, magnetic studies, hydrology and atmospheric sciences have expanded thanks to a boom in the computer sciences and measurement techniques. The frontiers of geophysics have also expanded, now including...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Social and natural scientists often are called upon to produce, or participate, in the pro duction of forecasts. This volume assembles essays that (a) describe the organizational and political context of applied forecasting, (b) review the state-of-the-art for many fore casting models and methods,...
Laser in Environmental and Life Sciences
Modern Analytical Methods
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This comprehensive reference work illustrates the state of the art of laser-induced analytical methods in environmental and life sciences via an interdisciplinary approach. Ky techniques for remote sensing in the atmosphere as well as diagnostic methods for soil, water and air contamination and exhaled...
The Earth's Lower Mantle
Composition and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book presents the first overview of the composition and structure of the Earth’s lower mantle. The first part focuses on the study of lower-mantle minerals, identified as inclusions in diamonds from different regions of the world. Three associations are established among the lower-mantle minerals:...
The Precambrian Earth
Tempos and Events
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.e. non-applied) topics in Precambrian geology in a non-partisan way, by using a large team of international authors to present their datasets and highly divergent viewpoints.
The chapters address: celestial origins of Earth and succeeding...
by Arthur A. Meyerhoff, I. Taner, A.E.L. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
TECTONlCS AND PHYSICS Geology, although rooted in the laws of physics, rarely has been taught in a manner designed to stress the relations between the laws and theorems of physics and the postulates of geology. The same is true of geophysics, whose specialties (seismology, gravimetIy, magnetics, magnetotellurics)...
Darwinian Evolution of Molecules
Physical and Earth-Historical Perspective of the Origin of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
On the basis of thermodynamic considerations and the Earth’s historical processes, this book argues the physical inevitability of life’s generation and evolution, i.e., Why did life generate? Why does life evolve? Following an introduction to the problem, the hypothesis “Darwinian Evolution...
Physics of the Earth's Interior
Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 6 October 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions: the extent of certain recent natural disasters and their dramatic consequences have reminded us of the power of terrestrial phenomena and of the need for scientific research to understand the Earth’s dynamics more fully. Over the last twenty years the study...
Biblical Geology
The Gap Theory Model of Creation in Light of its Experienced and Critical Opponents
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
In this book, we will discover the most accurate account of creation as taught from Scripture and verified by science. We will leave no stone unturned as we venture through the following fields of study: Stratigraphy, Meteorology, Obliquity, Dinosaurs, The Fossil Record, Star Light, Greek, Hebrew,...
by Rituparna Bose
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Increasing rate of species extinction in the present day will lead to a huge biodiversity crisis; eventually, this will lead to the paucity of non-renewable resources of energy making our Earth unsustainable in future. To save our mother planet from this crisis, studies need to be performed to discover...