Paläontologie

Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing

<P>This book provides information on the Earth science remote sensing data information and data format such as HDF-EOS. It evaluates the current data processing approaches and introduces dat...

Mantle Plumes

<P>The concept of mantle plumes is a key to understanding intraplate volcanism in the framework of modern plate tectonics. Recent progress in instrumental, analytical and satellite technolog...

Continental Scientific Drilling

<P>This volume provides a review and synthesizes the accomplishments of the past decade of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program. More importantly, it defines opportuniti...

Die Ostsahara im Spätquartär

Norbert Altmann / Hans-Joachim Pachur

<P>Erstmals eine Synthese aktueller geowissenschaftlich-ökosystemarer Analysen des größten hyperariden Raums der Erde: der Ostsahara. Forschungen belegen den dramatischen Klimawandel inne...

Sinkholes and Subsidence

Fred G. Bell / Tony Waltham / Martin G. Culshaw

<P><EM>&nbsp;"Sinkholes and Subsidence"</EM>&nbsp; provides a twenty-first century account of how the various subsidence features in carbonate and evaporite rocks...

Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route

Leonid P. Bobylev / Vitali Alexandrov / Lasse H. Pettersson / Stein Sandven / Ivan Ye. Frolov / Kjell Kloster / Yevgeny U. Mironov / Vladimir G. Smirnov / Ola M. Johannessen / Nikolay G. Babich

<P><STRONG>Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications </STRONG>initially provides a history of the Northern Sea Route as an important strategic...

Volcano Deformation

Daniel Dzurisin

Volcanoes and eruptions are dramatic surface man­ telemetry and processing, and volcano-deformation ifestations of dynamic processes within the Earth, source models over the past three decades. T...

Horns and Beaks

<p>Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter's series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original an...

First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River

<P>This book presents the multidisciplinary results of an extensive underwater excavation in north Florida. This yielded the most complete results of interactions between early Paleoindians ...

Polar Remote Sensing

Robert Massom / Dan Lubin

<P><EM>Polar Remote Sensing</EM> is a two-volume work providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary discussion of the applications of satellite sensing.</P><P>Volume 2...

Iceland Geodynamics

Freysteinn Sigmundsson

This book provides a summary of geodynamic results from Iceland that presently are found in a great number of scientific articles, but have not been collected before in a book. The ever increasing...

Physics of the Solar Corona

Markus Aschwanden

A thorough introduction to solar physics based on recent spacecraft observations. The author introduces the solar corona and sets it in the context of basic plasma physics before moving on to disc...

Applied Stratigraphy

<P>Stratigraphy has come to be indispensable to nearly all branches of the earth sciences, assisting such endeavors as charting the course of evolution, understanding ancient ecosystems, and...

Studies on Mexican Paleontology

<P>This is the first comprehensive source of information about Mexican fossils to be published in English. The book offers updated information in the fields of stratigraphy, sedimentology, t...

Earthquake Source Asymmetry, Structural Media and Rotation Effects

Window on the Future of Geodesy

<P>These proceedings represent the worldwide picture of the state of the art of geodesy. The volume comprehensively covers the most recent results and supplies a good review of the new ideas...

Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor in the K/T boundary extinctions has had a particularly important infl...

Antarctica

<P>Sixty articles arranged in eight thematic sections refer to most recent geological and geophysical results of Antarctic research. The Precambrian of the East Antarctic shield and its geol...

Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing

Preface.- General Information.- Maxwell's Equations, Electromagnetic Waves and Stokes Parameters.- Polarized Light Scattering by Large Nonspherical Particles.- Optimization of Numerical Invers...

Observation of the Earth System from Space

In the recent years, space-based observation methods have led to a subst- tially improved understanding of Earth system. Geodesy and geophysics are contributing to this development by measuring th...