Geowissenschaften

Proterozoic Crustal Evolution

As a final product of the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) Project 217, this volume brings together significant advances in the understanding of Proterozoic crustal evolution. T...

Chemical Change in Deforming Materials

Brian Bayly

Transgenic Plants

Volumes 1 and 2 of Transgenic Plants assemble important information on transgenic crops which has appeared scattered in many different publications. These two volumes are a significant milestone i...

Global biogeochemical cycles

Global biogeochemical cycles

Storm and Cloud Dynamics

This book focuses on the dynamics of clouds and of precipitating mesoscale meteorological systems. Clouds and precipitating mesoscale systems represent some of the most important and scientificall...

Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks

This festschrift, compiled from the symposium held in honor of W.F. Brace, is a timely overview of fault mechanics and transport properties of rock. State-of-the-art research is presented by inter...

Oil Exploration

This book presents quantitative procedures for assessing predictions of potential oil recovery (basin size, hydrocarbon content), and economic impact (exploration cost, production, transport, and ...

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...