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A Brief History of Earth - Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Harvard's acclaimed geologist ?charts Earth's history in accessible style? (AP) ?A sublime chronicle of our planet." ?Booklist, STARRED r...

Terrestrial Impact Structures - The TanDEM-X Atlas

Die Einschläge von Asteroiden, verbunden mit der Entstehung von Einschlagkratern, sind ein fundamentaler Prozess im Sonnensystem; mit zie...

Petrology of Metamorphic Rocks From the Kabul Block, Afghanistan - Metamorphic Rocks Petrology

Metamorphic rocks make up the largest volume of the Earth. This book mainly focuses on the petrology of metamorphic rocks of Kabul block,...

Mathematische Geodäsie/Mathematical Geodesy in 2 Bänden - Handbuch der Geodäsie, herausgegeben von Willi Freeden und Reiner Rummel, 2 Bde

Das Handbuch der Geodäsie ist ein hochwertiges, wissenschaftlich fundiertes Werk über die Geodäsie unserer Zeit und bietet anhand von in ...

Fossil frogs of the genus Palaeobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura)

Palaeobatrachidae are an extinct family of frogs whose earliest members are recorded from the Middle Eocene (Geiseltal, Messel, Germany),...

Field Measurement Methods in Soil Science

Soils are progressively recognized as the critical environmental compartment they are. More and more practitioners and scientists address...

Thermospheric Density and Wind Determination from Satellite Dynamics

The Earth's atmosphere is often portrayed as a thin and finite blanket covering our planet, separate from the emptiness of outer space. I...

Reflections Underwater - A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Coral Reef Wonders

Coral reefs are one of the world's great natural wonders, but they are also under serious threat from the effects of climate change and d...

Extinctions - From Dinosaurs to You

"A distinguished geologist and a popular science writer Charles Frankel turns his attention in his latest book to the mass extinctions on...

Climate of History in a Planetary Age

"For the past decade, no thinker has had a greater influence on debates about the meaning of climate change in the humanities than the hi...

A First Course in General Relativity

Clarity, readability, and rigor combine in the third edition of this widely used textbook to provide the first step into general relativi...

El Nino in History - Storming Through the Ages

Cesar Caviedes provides the first comprehensive historical account of El Nino, the fascinating and disruptive weather phenomenon that has...

Principles of Seismology

This new edition features a completely new chapter on digital seismic data processing, numerous examples and 100 problems.

Earth's Climate - Past and Future

At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, Ruddiman's breakthr...

Timefulness - How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the ...

Mires and peatlands in Europe - Status, distribution and conservation

The European continent features an impressive variety of mires and peatlands. Polygon, palsa, and aapa mires, concentric and eccentric bo...

The Roadside Geology of Namibia

Namibia has over the years attracted scientists from all over the world to study its geology, uniquely exposed in the desert environment....

Uranous Mineralogy of Hypergene Reduction Region - Using electron microscopy data

This book offers a comprehensive view of the valuable uranium ores and analytical electron microscopy methods, including electron microdi...

Rocks - Description, identification, nomenclature, genesis

The first part of this handy, pocket-sized book presents an overview of the world of rocks and their setting in Earth. The genesis of mag...

The Transantarctic Mountains - Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water

This book presents a summary of the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains for Earth scientists who may want to work there or who need a...

Economic Geology - Principles and Practice

This title is also available as hardcover edition. Since the 1st edition of this book was published, both science and practice of economi...

Environmental Impacts from the Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Reserves

A comprehensive overview of the environmental impacts of unconventional oil and gas reserves, authored by an international consortium of ...

Structural Geology

This market-leading textbook has been fully updated in response to extensive user feedback. It includes a new chapter on joints and veins...

High Above the Alps - A Bird's Eye View of Geology

High above the Alps: A Bird's Eye View of Geology. A Visual Homage to the Awe Inspiring Geology of an Incredible Mountain Range. The Alps...

Introduction to Physical Hydrology

As hydrology is now approached from environmental and social perspectives--in addition to the more traditional physical geography and civ...

This Volcanic Isle - The Violent Processes that forged the British Landscape

This Volcanic Isle explores the rich geological history of the British Isles over the past 66 million years, since the disappearance of t...

Fundamentals of Geophysics

A thoroughly reworked third edition featuring new data acquisition technologies, research developments and computational exercises in Pyt...

Understanding Earth (International Edition)

Understanding Earth is an intro/ physical geology text with a highly respected author team and strong explanatory exposition. It is the o...

Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter

Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, Third Edition is the most up-to-date revision of this fundamental reference on the bi...

Plastisphere - The Ecosystem of Plastics

This book examines the plastisphere and reveals a secret world of microbes that have adapted to live on plastic surfaces. It explains the...

Computation, Optimization, and Machine Learning in Seismology

A textbook applying fundamental seismology theories to the latest computational tools The goal of computational seismology is to digitall...

Understanding the Regional Dynamics of Vulnerability - A Historical Approach to the Flood Problem in China

This book presents a detailed regional study of the Dongting Lake Area and explores potential avenues and challenges for future flood ris...

Tsunamis on the Pacific Coast of Canada - From Prehistoric Time to the Present

Tsunamis are among the world's most dangerous and destructive natural phenomena. The catastrophic tsunami of December 26, 2004 claimed ov...

Measurement Techniques of Space Geodesy

Tank Cascade Systems of Sri Lanka - A Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System

The Tank Cascade System of Sri Lanka is internationally recognized by FAO and the UN as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System...

What Annually Laminated Sediments Reveal about the History of Environment and Civilization

This monograph presents a proposal for interdisciplinary and international research that uses varve as an essential tool. The discovery a...

Plate Tectonics

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone ...