Geowissenschaften

Geophysical Field Theory and Method, Part A

An essential book for all students and scientists in the field, Part A of Geophysical Field Theory and Method describes the physical and mathematical principles of geophysical methods, specificall...

Diagenesis, III

The present volume is an intellectual agglomeration covering a variety of topics in diagenesis. It starts with the diagenesis of marine pore waters and soft-sediment deformations, followed by two ...

Biomass for Energy, Industry and Environment

Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomass for Energy, Industry and Environment held in Athens, Greece, 22-26 April 1991.

Marine Physics

In trying to discover as much as possible about the marine environment, oceanography has split into many subdisciplines, each represented by innumerable publications. To date however, there has be...

Complex Oceanographic Research on the Black Sea

Conservation of Plant Genes

This is the first report of the DNA Bank-Net, an organization whose goal is to encourage the conservation, collection, and preservation of plant genes.DNA banking and gene retrievalOligonucleotide...

World Atlas of Holocene Sea-Level Changes

This timely study is concerned with the current record of sea-level changes during the past 10,000 years; their rates, and our ability to estimate these changes accurately. The author begins with ...

Waste Materials in Construction. Studies in Environmental Science, Volume 48.

Waste Materials in Construction contains papers from the first international conference on the environmental implications of construction with waste materials held in Maastricht in November, 1991....

Porous Media

This book examines the relationship between transport properties and pore structure of porous material. Models of pore structure are presented with a discussion of how such models can be used to p...

Tropical Botanic Gardens

This book includes the proceedings of the second symposium on one important role of botanic gardens in conserving world plant resources. Sessions covered topics such as implementing the botanic ga...

Man and the Natural World

Keith Thomas

An account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800, and comparing and contrasting this with our present attitude towards it.

Big City Politics in Transition

"Big City Politics in Transition is a good reference volume packed with much important and up-to-date information." --Environment and Planning "A timely book that revisits the field so...

Oceanography of Asian Marginal Seas

This volume contains 31 papers on physical and geological oceanography, marine engineering and meterology in the Japan Sea and the East China Sea. Almost all these papers were presented at the Fi...

Evaporites, Petroleum and Mineral Resources. Developments in Sedimentology, Volume 50.

This volume illustrates the expanding knowledge of evaporites as important reservoir seals, fluid aquitards, ore-hosting sediments, and economically viable sediments in their own right. Researcher...

Water Resources Development in Developing Countries

Water resources exploitation has been regarded as a way of initiating economic development in many countries. Planning concepts are now changing. Thorough environmental studies, sociological and e...

Numerical Adventures with Geochemical Cycles

James C. G. Walker

Glacigenic Sediments

This book aims primarily at providing those involved in fundamental or applied research in the fields of geology, geomorphology and hydrology with a systematic overview of glacigenic sediments. A ...

Precambrian Continental Crust and its Economic Resources

Since 1964, the time when the Upper Mantle Project was started, the Precambrian continental crust has been studied in considerable detail in many areas. Multidisciplinary studies, using modern too...

Geochemistry of Sedimentary Carbonates

This book covers the more basic aspects of carbonate minerals and their interaction with aqueous solutions; modern marine carbonate formation and sediments; carbonate diagenesis (early marine, met...

Soils on a Warmer Earth

The theme of this book is a far reaching one and should attract great interest, both in industrialized as well as in less developed countries. Although the question of climate change and its effe...