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'A joyful collision of science, history and nature writing' Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep Time
Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. ……続きを見る
Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and quantifying climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted perspective of ecosystem, social, and infrastructure resilience, given throu……続きを見る
This volume contains papers and reports from the Conference held in Romania, June 2000. The book covers many topics, for example, place, role and content of geotechnical engineering in civil, enviro……続きを見る
This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the seismic and geological response characteristics of major tectonic types, typical reservoirs, and typical geological bodies in China, illu……続きを見る
This book reviews the hydrogeology of karst systems, starting with the classifications from the applied point of view, and then the hydraulic parameters (porosity, permeability, and transmissivity).……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年09月16日
This volume discusses how the German armed forces made effective use of military geologists to assist their fortification of the Channel Islands after their capture from the British in 1940. The boo……続きを見る
This book presents a translation and update of the classic German textbook of Mineralogy and Petrology that has been published for decades. It provides an introduction to mineralogy, petrology, and ……続きを見る
This book provides a complete study of the Central Andean volcanism and its most distinctive features, from the lower Paleozoic to the Cenozoic times in the framework of its processes, eruptive mech……続きを見る
This book presents and describes an innovative method to simulate the growth of natural fractural networks in different geological environments, based on their geological history and fundamental geo……続きを見る
This book offers essential, systematic information on the assessment of the spatial association between two processes from a statistical standpoint. Divided into eight chapters, the book begins with……続きを見る
While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critic……続きを見る
Sixty-five papers cover a wide range of topics from engineering applications to theoretical developments in the areas of embankment and slope stability, underground cavity design and mining; dynamic……続きを見る
Geoid and its Geophysical Interpretations explains how an accurate geoid can be constructed and used for a variety of applied and theoretical geophysical purposes. The book discusses existing techni……続きを見る
Geologists must be able to “read” a geological map. That means interpreting the vertical dimension through the 2D view represented on the map and at different scales. The main objective of this book……続きを見る
著者:Ashoka G. Dessai
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年09月24日
This book explores the geotectonic evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Indian Shield, which comprises a collage of cratons variously bounded by mobile belts and palaeo-rifts. The lithosphere be……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年09月26日
This book reviews the latest water quality protection and water resources development strategies in Algeria. It covers topics such as the assessment and prediction of water quality, salt-water intru……続きを見る
Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia's Altai Mountains reveals the anatomy of deep time at the boundary between Central and North Asia. Inscribed over a period of twelve millennia, its……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年09月29日
This richly illustrated book provides an overview of the Neoproterozoic Pan-African Belt of Egypt (PABE), which represents the northwestern continuation of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) and the Ea……続きを見る
著者:Mehran Maghsoudi
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年10月31日
This book offers a unique and highly illustrated overview of the desert geomorphology of Iran. It describes the different landscapes and landforms of desert areas such as ergs and badlands offering ……続きを見る
Forecasting and Planning for Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters expands and complements the subject and themes in Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters. Together, the two volumes represent an ex……続きを見る
This book discusses Nevada in the context of the history of soil investigations; soil-forming factors; general soil regions; soil geomorphology; taxonomic structure of the soils; taxonomic soil regi……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年10月04日
This book discusses the striking geomorphological landscapes of mainland Norway. As part of the Springer book series on World Geomorphological Landscapes, it outlines the nature and diversity of Nor……続きを見る
著者:Ashoke K. Talapatra
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年11月07日
This book discusses potential mineral belts in various geotectonic regions around the globe, with a particular focus on concealed deposits, in order to highlight new areas for geochemical exploratio……続きを見る
Carbon membranes have great advantages of strong mechanical strength and high chemical stabilities, as well as high separation performance to reach the industrial attractive region. Further improvem……続きを見る
著者:Pratik Chakrabarti
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2020年10月13日
Learn how the deep history of nature became a dominant paradigm of historical thinking, through a study of landscapes of India.
Winner of the BSHS Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the Hist……続きを見る
The TEX86 paleothermometer is based upon the distribution of archaeal membrane lipids ('GDGTs') in marine sediments. GDGTs are ubiquitous, abundant and relatively resistant to degradation; as such, ……続きを見る
The waters and rich resources of the South China Sea are claimed by seven different countries, and it is estimated that approximately 40% of the world’s trade moves through the area. Marine Geology ……続きを見る
著者:Penny Anderson
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2021年12月23日
The Peak District, Britain’s first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year.
This New Naturalist volume on the region highlights the wonder and magi……続きを見る
Seismoelectric coupling and its current and potential future applications
The seismoelectric methodーthe naturally-occurring coupling of seismic waves to electromagnetic fieldsーcan provide insight ……続きを見る