Geowissenschaften

Nation of Farmers

Sharon Astyk / Aaron Newton

"Astyk and Newton have written an important book with an unusual message: We need millions of new farmers...as soon as possible. You could not find two more reasonable, intelligent, sincere, a...

Green Careers

Jim Cassio / Alice Rush

People of all ages and backgrounds are seeking work in career fields that will help save the planet, yet many people are unaware of the variety of green careers available. This unique career guida...

Tidal Signatures in Modern and Ancient Sediments

This IAS Special Publication contains 23 papers presented at the 3rd International Research Symposium on Modern and Ancient Clastic Tidal Deposits. This symposium series has an enviable internatio...

Fossils at a Glance

Clare Milsom / Sue Rigby

Life on Earth has been evolving and interacting with the surface and atmosphere for almost four billion years. Fossils provide a powerful tool in the study of the Earth and its history. They also ...

Physical Processes in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Marta Pérez-Arlucea / Mike R. Leeder

This book provides a sound introduction to the basic physical processes that dominate the workings of the Earth, its atmosphere and hydrosphere. It systematically introduces the physical processes...

Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes

Laurence Robb

<i>Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes</i> is the first senior undergraduate – postgraduate textbook to focus specifically on the multiplicity of geological processes that result i...

Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

Myron G. Best

Igneous and metamorphic petrology has over the last twenty years expanded rapidly into a broad, multifaceted and increasingly quantitative science. Advances in geochemistry, geochronology, and geo...

Measuring Biological Diversity

Anne E. Magurran

This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic disti...

Sedimentary Petrology

The earlier editions of this book have been used by successive generations of students for more than 20 years, and it is the standard text on the subject in most British universities and many othe...

Rivers and Floodplains

John S. Bridge

<i>Rivers and Floodplains</i> is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial rivers and floodplains, how...

Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins

Mike R. Leeder

Sedimentology is a core discipline of earth and environmental sciences. It enquires the origins, transport and deposition of mineral sediment on the Earth's surface. The subject is a link betw...

Geological History of Britain and Ireland

Nigel H. Woodcock / R. A. Strachan

<p><b>Britain, Ireland and their surrounding areas have a remarkably varied geology for so small a fragment of continental crust.</b></p> <p>This region contains a fi...

Fault-Zone Properties and Earthquake Rupture Dynamics

The dynamics of the earthquake rupture process are closely related to fault zone properties which the authors have intensively investigated by various observations in the field as well as by labo...

Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook

The Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook specifies methods and terminology for soil and land surveys. It has been widely used throughout Australia, providing one reference set of definit...

Climate Change

It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and that changes are happening with increasing rapidity. In this second edition, leading climate researcher Barr...

Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook

The Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook specifies methods and terminology for soil and land surveys. It has been widely used throughout Australia, providing one reference set of definit...

Climate Change

It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and that changes are happening with increasing rapidity. In this second edition, leading climate researcher Barr...

Medea Hypothesis

Peter Ward

In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere--one that has frightening impl...

Coarse-Grained Deltas

This <i>Special Publication</i> contains most of the contributions presented at the 1st International Workshop on Fan Deltas (1988) but also contains additional papers which make this ...

Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth

Victor I. Danilov-Danil'yan / K. S. Losev / Igor E. Reyf

<P>2007 marked the 20th anniversary of the G.H.Brundtland Commission report that broke new ground by addressing the issue of sustainable development as a means of avoiding an ecological cata...