Geophysics category: 630 books
by Christopher H. Scholz
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
Our understanding of earthquakes and faulting processes has developed significantly since publication of the successful first edition of this book in 1990. This revised edition, first published in 2002, was therefore thoroughly up-dated whilst maintaining and developing the two major themes of the...
by Pierre M. Adler, Valeri V. Mourzenko, Jean-François Thovert
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This book provides a systematic treatment of the geometrical and transport properties of fractures, fracture networks, and fractured porous media. It is divided into two major parts. The first part deals with geometry of individual fractures and of fracture networks. The use of the dimensionless density...
Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism
A Long Voyage of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This book is a summary of the history of discovering the moon. The author has been involved in the Apollo program, working with its samples and this book covers these efforts. It describes the analysis methods of lunar samples and their interpretation to understand lunar paleomagnetism. The book has...
Routine Data Processing in Earthquake Seismology
With Sample Data, Exercises and Software
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The purpose of this book is to get a practical understanding of the most common processing techniques in earthquake seismology. The book deals with manual methods and computer assisted methods. Each topic will be introduced with the basic theory followed by practical examples and exercises. There...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In exploration seismology, data are acquired at multiple source and receiver posi tions along a profile line. These data are subsequently processed and interpreted. The primary result of this process is a subsurface image of the exploration target. As part of this procedure, additional information...
Terra non Firma Earth
Plate Tectonics is a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book summarises research into Expansion Tectonics and is suitable for all persons interested in the geosciences. In this book, modern geological, geophysical, and geographical evidence is used to recreate the entire 4,000 million years of our Earths geological history. This evidence is then used...
IAG 150 Years
Proceedings of the 2013 IAG Scientific Assembly, Postdam,Germany, 1–6 September, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This proceedings contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the IAG Scientific Assembly, Postdam, Germany, 1-6 September, 2013. The scientific sessions were focussed on the definition, implementation and scientific applications of reference frames; gravity field determination and...
Characterization of an Upper Permian Tight Gas Reservoir
A Multidisciplinary, Multiscale Analysis from the Rotliegend, Northern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
"The thesis of Philipp Antrett is focused on reservoir properties, petrography, lithofacies and sedimentology, core analysis and nanoporosity studies. It will be of major interest for colleagues involved in the exploration and production of tight gas reservoirs in Northern Europe and elsewhere."
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by Achyuta Ayan Misra, Soumyajit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This work reviews the mechanism of rifting with a focus on pre-existing tectonic weaknesses in pre-rift and/or basement rocks, i.e., on tectonic inheritance. The passive margins that are studied in this book are the Norwegian Continental Shelf, the Eastern North America and the East and West Indian...
Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes
3rd International Scientific School for Young Scientists, Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This book is the result of collaboration within the framework of the Third International Scientific School for Young Scientists held at the Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017, November.
The papers included describe studies on the dynamics of...
Birddog
Philosophy and practice of seismic data quality supervision
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book describes the methods and attributes required for the compe tent quality control of the data acquisition of a seismic exploration crew operating on land. Although the book is concerned mainly with explo ration for oil and gas reservoirs, and all the topics that are discussed in it are...
Caribbean Tsunamis
A 500-Year History from 1498-1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Caribbean Tsunamis - A 500-Year History from 1498-1998 broadly characterizes the nature of tsunamis in the Caribbean Sea, while bearing in mind both scientific aspects as well as potential interest by the many governments and populations likely to be affected by the hazard. Comprehension of the nature...
Understanding the Bouguer Anomaly
A Gravimetry Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Understanding the Bouguer Anomaly: A Gravimetry Puzzle addresses the geophysical and geodetic applications of gravity field interpretation, taking into account the evaluation of the Bouguer anomaly. Containing several contributions that deal with persistent questions in gravity data processing and...
by Jason J. Nishiyama
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In this book we will look at what planetary nebulae are, where they come from and where they go. We will discuss what mechanisms cause these beautiful markers of stellar demise as well as what causes them to form their variety of shapes. How we measure various aspects of planetary nebulae such as...