Paläontologie

Current Developments in Bioerosion

<P>It has become apparent from the literature that bioerosional processes affect a wide range of biological and geological systems that cross many disciplines among the sciences. This book i...

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Milutin Srbulov

<p><i><br>... "Included on the Choice list with the outstanding academic Earth Sciences titles 2008" ...<br></i><br>This volume describes simplified dyn...

Microearthquake Seismology and Seismotectonics of South Asia

J.R. Kayal

This volume is the outcome of about 30 years of research in the field of earthquake seismology in various parts of South Asia. It comprehensively deals with topics raning from plate tectonics to s...

Historical Seismology

<P>Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics. This volume is dedicated to the use of new approaches and presents a state-of-th...

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

Vladimir F. Krapivin

<P>This book presents a new approach to the study of global environmental changes that have unfavorable implications for people and other living systems. The book benefits from the accumulat...

Earth Structures

Ivan Vanicek / Martin Vanicek

<P>Soil represents the oldest and most-used building material, yet up to now the subject of earthen structures has not been fully addressed. This book describes the principles of soil as con...

Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology

<P>This book celebrates the contributions of Dr. Frederick S. Szalay to the field of Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology. Professor Szalay is a strong advocate for biologically and evolutionar...

Paleontological Data Analysis

?yvind Hammer / David A. T. Harper

During the last 10 years numerical methods have begun to dominate paleontology. These methods now reach far beyond the fields of morphological and phylogenetic analyses to embrace biostratigraphy,...

The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

David J. Siveter / Jan Bergstrom / Xiang-Hong Feng / Richard J. Aldridge / Derek J. Siveter / Hou Xianguag

The Chengjiang biota is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries ever made. <i>The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang</i> is the first book in English to provide fossil enthusiasts wi...

Palaeobiology II

<p><b><i>Palaeobiology: A Synthesis</i> was widely acclaimed both for its content and production quality.</b></p> <p>Ten years on, Derek Briggs and Peter ...

Remote Sensing of the European Seas

<P>Here is a review of the current potential of Earth Observations that devotes particular attention to the challenges posed by the European Seas. The assessment of surface parameters by mea...

Advances in Land Remote Sensing

<p>It collects the review papers of the 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS). It systematically summarizes the past achievements an...

Contaminant Geochemistry

Ishai Dror / Brian Berkowitz / Bruno Yaron

<P>Combining earth science, subsurface hydrology and environmental geochemistry, this book provides a comprehensive background for those interested in the protection and sustainable manageme...

Airglow as an Indicator of Upper Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics

Nicolay N. Shefov / Vladislav Yu Khomich / Anatoly I. Semenov

<P>The book summarizes international progress over the last few decades in upper atmosphere airglow research. Measurement methods, theoretical concepts and empirical models of a wide spectru...

Assessing and Managing Earthquake Risk

<p>* Multidisciplinary approach of risk assessment and management, which can provide more efficient earthquake mitigation.</p><p>* Transfer of Geo-scientific and engineering kno...

Mass Extinction

<P>The present book combines three main aspects: five major mass extinctions; contributions on some other minor extinctions; and more importantly contributions on the current mass extinction...

Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

Karl-Rudolf Koch

<P>This book presents Bayes’ theorem, the estimation of unknown parameters, the determination of confidence regions and the derivation of tests of hypotheses for the unknown parameters. It...

Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene

<P>This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. The authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecologic...

Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Including the Spatial Domain

Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pi...

Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology

<P>This volume presents a sample of views and visions among some of the growing numbers of Neoproterozoic workers. It includes a set of multidisciplinary reviews on the Neoproterozoic fossil...