Geophysics category: 630 books
by Lawrence B. Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book presents the integrated use of magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar geophysical mapping to understand the human presence within buried archaeological landscapes. Ground-penetrating radar can be used to identify buried living surfaces, geological stratigraphy and the architectural remains...
by Lawrence B. Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
There has long been a strong collaboration between geologists and archaeologists, and the sub-field of geoarchaeology is well developed as a discipline in its own right. This book now bridges the gap between those fields and the geophysical technique of ground-penetrating radar (GPR), which allows...
by Scott Madry
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Dr. Madry, one of the world's leading experts in the field, provides in a condensed form a quick yet comprehensive overview of satellite navigation. This book concisely addresses the latest technology, the applications, the regulatory issues, and the strategic implications of satellite navigation...
Mine Seismology: Seismic Warning Concept
Case Study from Vaal Reefs Gold Mine, South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book illustrates how mine seismology can be used to improve underground safety standards. It describes several preventive actions that have been put into practice at the 5B Area of No. 5 Shaft Vaal Reefs gold mine after issuing seismic warnings. These included additional safety pillars, changes...
Map Projections
Cartographic Information Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
In the context of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) the book offers a timely review of Map Projections. The first chapters are of foundational type. We introduce the mapping from a left Riemann manifold to a right one specified as conformal, equiaerial and equidistant, perspective and geodetic....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Despite their global importance, little is known about the few existing examples of impacts into marine environments and icy targets. They are among the least understood and studied parts of impact crater geology. The icy impacts are also of great importance in understanding the developments of...
by Andreas Fichtner
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Recent progress in numerical methods and computer science allows us today to simulate the propagation of seismic waves through realistically heterogeneous Earth models with unprecedented accuracy. Full waveform tomography is a tomographic technique that takes advantage of numerical solutions of the...
Fluid and Thermodynamics
Volume 2: Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamic Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In this book fluid mechanics and thermodynamics (F&T) are approached as interwoven, not disjoint fields. The book starts by analyzing the creeping motion around spheres at rest: Stokes flows, the Oseen correction and the Lagerstrom-Kaplun expansion theories are presented, as is the homotopy analysis....
Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires
in the European Mediterranean Basin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Source Mechanisms of Earthquakes
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book presents an innovative new approach to studying source mechanisms of earthquakes, combining theory and observation in a unified methodology, with a key focus on the mechanics governing fault failures. It explains source mechanisms by building from fundamental concepts such as the equations...
by Benjamin Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Science Fiction novel purporting the Earth's magnetosphere is capable of transporting people and objects incompletely through mineral deposits in the Earth's mantle. Complete carnage at several automobile wreckage sites in the same general area prompts an astute law enforcement officer to investigate...
Radiative Transfer in Coupled Environmental Systems
An Introduction to Forward and Inverse Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
This book is dedicated to the formulation and solution of forward and inverse problems related to coupled media, and provides examples of how to solve concrete problems in environmental remote sensing of coupled atmosphere-surface systems.
The authors discuss radiative transfer in coupled media...
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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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A workshop on Induced Seismicity was organized during the 27th General Assembly of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of Earth's Interior (IASPEI) in Wellington, New Zealand during January 10-21, 1994. This volume presents a collection of 16 papers accepted for publication which...