Mineralogy category: 387 books
Laterite
Genesis, Location, Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In comparison with engineering, geology is a relatively new domain of know ledge. Man has been building almost from the moment he came down out of the trees or emerged from the caves. All of his structures were founded in or upon rock or soil. Before the end of what we call ancient history, he had...
Absolute Age Determination
Physical and Chemical Dating Methods and Their Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages. A rela tive geochronology...
by Rodney Grapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
1000 °C) and low pressures (< 2 kb) and typically results in the formation of "burnt" and fused rocks termed buchites, paralavas, clinkers and fulgarites. It is typically associated with shallow basaltic intrusions (contact aureoles, xenoliths,) combustion of carbonaceous matter, lightning...
Arming the Confederacy
How Virginia’s Minerals Forged the Rebel War Machine
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This is a fresh look at the American Civil War from the standpoint of the natural resources necessary to keep the armies in the field. This story of the links between minerals, topography, and the war in western Virginia now comes to light in a way that enhances our understanding of America’s greatest...
Minerals and Allied Natural Resources and their Sustainable Development
Principles, Perspectives with Emphasis on the Indian Scenario
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Nonrenewable natural resources – metallic and non-metallic minerals, industrial rocks and energy resources (both organic and inorganic), have been treated in a holistic manner in this book, including two important resources (soil and water), not commonly covered in most books on this topic. For...
by Dirk J. Wiersma
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Features 135 splendid color photographs, ranges from vast rock-landscapes recorded in Europe, America, Australia, and Iceland right down to finely detailed images of a few square millimeters.
Close-ups of crystals, gems, and fossils are alternated with micro-images of the minute textures and...
by M. S. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This monograph deals with the part of the field of ex-' perimental rock deformation that is dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another. Thus a distinction has been drawn between the fields of brittle und ductile behaviour in rock, corresponding more or less to a distinction...
Modeling Volcanic Processes
The Physics and Mathematics of Volcanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Understanding the physical behavior of volcanoes is key to mitigating the hazards active volcanoes pose to the ever-increasing populations living nearby. The processes involved in volcanic eruptions are driven by a series of interlinked physical phenomena, and to fully understand these, volcanologists...
Geologic Modeling and Simulation
Sedimentary Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Modeling and simulation were introduced to the earth sciences about four decades ago. Modeling has proven its worth and now it is an accepted procedure for analyzing and solving geological problems. The papers in this collection are focused on modeling sediment deposition and sedimentary sequences...
Environmental Impact of Mining and Mineral Processing
Management, Monitoring, and Auditing Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Environmental Impact of Mining and Mineral Processing: Management, Monitoring, and Auditing Strategies covers all the aspects related to mining and the environment, including environmental assessment at the early planning stages, environmental management during mine operation, and the identification...
The Rare Earth Elements
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book deals with the rare earth elements (REE), which are a series of 17 transition metals: scandium, yttrium and the lanthanide series of elements (lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium...
Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil
Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage offers a better understanding of mycorrhizal mediation that will help inform earth system models and subsequently improve the accuracy of global carbon model predictions. Mycorrhizas transport tremendous quantities of plant-derived...
by Helmut G.F. Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by M. A. Levitan, Yu A. Lavrushin
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
The book reflects the results of the study of sedimentation history, paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography of the Arctic and Subarctic during the last 130 ka. The main objects under consideration are marine basins of the West Subarctic (Iceland, Norwegian, and Greenland Seas), the Arctic Ocean (Barents,...