Geowissenschaften

Farming Action: Catchment Reaction

Dryland farming is a major export earner for many temperate-zone countries, yet it continues to degrade a country's natural resources. Effects are not restricted to the land - changes in wate...

Using Groundwater Responses to Infer Recharge - Part 5

Analytical methods of assessing the response of groundwater levels to a range of factors, including elastic (barometric and tidal) influences in confined aquifers and recharge to unconfined aquife...

Groundwater Processes and Modelling - Part 6

This booklet outlines the properties of geological materials which enable them to accept, store and transmit groundwater, together with a description of the principal types of aquifer which are co...

Geology and hydrogeology of carbonate islands

The Geology and Hydrogeology of Carbonate Islands presents a survey of more than 30 selected islands such as Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Florida Keys, coastal Yucatan, Barbados, the Caymans, Isla de...

Operational Oceanography

GOOS is an international programme for a permanent global framework of observations, modelling and analysis of ocean variables which are needed to support operational services around the world. Th...

Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology of the Middle East

The wealth of petroleum has made the Middle East one of the most actively explored regions of the world. The volume of geological, geophysical and geochemical data collected by the petroleum indus...

Precambrian Ore Deposits of the East European and Siberian Cratons

"e;Precambrian Ore Deposits of the East European and Siberian Cratons"e; is a sequel to "e;Precambrian Geology of the USSR"e; published in 1993 (English edition), in which the main...

Environmental Pollution and Control

Complex environmental problems are often reduced to an inappropriate level of simplicity. While this book does not seek to present a comprehensive scientific and technical coverage of all aspects...

Simulating Oil Entrapment in Clastic Sequences

The book introduces procedures for simulating migration and entrapment of oil in three dimensions in sequences of sandstones and shales.A principal purpose is to show how simulation experiments ca...

Räumliche Entwicklung und Bedeutung des Wissenschaftsnetzes (WIN) für Forschung und Lehre an den Hochschulen der neuen Bundesländer

Andreas Hoppe

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung:Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit soll der Auf- und Ausbau des Wissenschaftsnetzes und seine Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in den neuen Bundesländern von 1990 bis 1995 unt...

Pollution Prevention through Process Integration

The environmental impact of industrial waste is one of the most serious challenges facing the chemical process industries. From a focus on end-of-pipe treatment in the 1970s, chemical manufacturer...

Introduction to Global Environmental Issues

Kevin T. Pickering

An Introduction to Global Environmental Issues presents a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the key environmental issues presently threatening our global environment. Offering an autho...

Der Fremdenverkehr im Lake District Nationalpark

Marion Bienert

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:Im Jahre 1951 wurde der Lake District in dem heutigen County Cumbria durch den "National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949" zum Nationalpark ausgewiesen...

Tropenholz auf dem Weltmarkt

Daniela Weiers

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:Tropenholz wird als Sammelbegriff für ca. 2000-3000 Holzarten in tropisch beheimateten Gebieten (Äquatorzone zwischen dem 23. Grad nördlicher und südlicher Breite) ver...

Land-Stadt-Wanderung und urbane Lebensbedingungen von Migrantinnen in Windhoek/Katutura (Namibia)

Susanne Meyer

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:Die Abwanderung der Bevölkerung von den ländlichen in die städtischen Räume ist eine in Afrika seit Jahrzehnten zu beobachtende Erscheinung, die mit einem raschen Wach...

Miocene Stratigraphy

Integrated stratigraphy is essential for detailed paleoecologic studies of critical intervals in Earth history the calibration of the time scale for global use the establishment of Global Stratoty...

Harmonization of Leaching/Extraction Tests

This is a unique compilation on the use of leaching/extraction methods in different fields. The use of leaching test methods is increasing in various areas including: waste treatment and disposal;...

Plate Tectonics

This comprehensive text has established itself over the past 20 years as the definitive work in its fields, presenting a thorough coverage of this key area of structural geology in a way which is ...

Introduction to Geostatistics

P. K. Kitanidis

Geometrische und thematische rechnergestützte Verarbeitung satellitengetragener SAR-Daten von Island unter Integration topographischer und geowissenschaftlicher Informationen

Bettina Müschen

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung:Im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit werden Radardaten der Satelliten SEASAT-A und ERS-1 aus den Jahren 1978 und 1991 von Süd-Island computergestützt bei der Deutschen For...