Geowissenschaften

Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments

<b>A special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists</b> The ebook entitled <i>Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments</i> provides the proceedings of a ...

Fundamentals of Seismic Loading on Structures

Tapan K. Sen

This book provides a practical guide to the basic essentials of earthquake engineering with a focus on seismic loading and structural design. Benefiting from the author’s extensive career in str...

Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits

The study of palaeoweathering provides vital clues about past continental environments, the correlation of sedimentary deposits and processes such as the rate and timing of uplift and erosion. &l...

Understanding Vineyard Soils

Robert White

Understanding Vineyard Soils

Robert White

Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment

Foundations of Engineering Geology, Third Edition

Tony Waltham

Now in full colour, the third edition of this well established book provides a readable and highly illustrated overview of the aspects of geology that are most significant to civil engineers.Secti...

Dolomites

This volume contains 23 state-of-the-art papers presented at the Dolomieu Conference on Carbonate Platforms and Dolomitization held in September 1991 in Ortisei, Italy. The conference was co-spons...

Bioeconomics of Invasive Species

Ethics As Foreign Policy

Dan Bulley

Ethical foreign policy has often been considered utopian, unrealistic and potentially very dangerous. Dan Bulley argues for a reconceptualisation of ethics as foreign policy, as both look to how w...

The Sun Recorded Through History

J.M. Vaquero / M. Vázquez

The Sun is nowadays observed using di?erent techniques that provide an almost instantaneous 3-D map of its structure. Of particular interest is the studyofthevariabilityinthesolaroutputproducedbyt...

Fundamentals of Computational Geoscience

Chongbin Zhao / Bruce E. Hobbs / Alison Ord

This monograph aims to provide state-of-the-art numerical methods, procedures and algorithms in the field of computational geoscience, based on the authors¿ own work during the last decade. Altho...

Earth Sciences and Mathematics, Volume II

<P>A Complutense International Seminar on "Earth Sciences and Mathematics" was organised and held in Madrid at the Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas of the Universidad Complutense de...

Scientific Ballooning

Nobuyuki Yajima / Toyoo Abe / Takeshi Imamura / Naoki Izutsu

<P>The aim of this book is to introduce scientific ballooning to the many people who are interested in the use of balloons for scientific applications. The book offers a basic understanding ...

Sapphire

Elena R. Dobrovinskaya / Leonid A. Lytvynov / Valerian Pishchik

By the second half of the twentieth century, a new branch of materials science had come into being — crystalline materials research. Its appearance is linked to the emergence of advanced technol...

Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe

Strong atmosphere-hydrology-biosphere feedbacks including human activity affect the rate and sign of changes in the Earth's system and have impacts on socioeconomic relationships. These proces...

Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

<P>The tragedy of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has led to a rapid expansion in science directed at understanding tsunami and mitigating their hazard. A remarkable cross-section of this rese...

Measure Solar System Objects and Their Movements for Yourself!

John D. Clark

<P>Instead of taking somebody's word for it about the basic size and distance statistics for the solar system, this book shows amateur astronomers how to measure these things for themsel...

Sedimentology of Coal and Coal-Bearing Sequences

Sedimentation, Tectonics, and Eustasy