Geology

Fundamentals of Structural Geology provides a new framework for the investigation of geological structures by integrating field mapping and mechanical analysis. Assuming a basic knowledge of physical geology, introductory calculus and physics, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578408705Author Doug FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Cophee House BooksPublisher Cophee House BooksWeight(grams) 449g

A Concise Geologic Time Scale: 2016 presents a summary of Earth's history over the past 4.5 billion years, as well as a brief overview of contemporaneous events on the Moon, Mars, and Venus. The authors have been at the forefront of chronostratigraphic...

More than half of the world's petroleum is to be found in carbonate rocks, for example in the Middle East, the former USSR and in North America. These rocks show a bewildering diversity of grains and textures, due in part to the wealth of different...

The Howgill Fells in Cumbria, represent one of the most erosionally active landscapes in Britain. The bedrock geology, folded Silurian mudstones, is not especially well seen. The direct effects of Pleistocene glaciation are limited and not as well...

This book guides readers through the most iconic geologically significant scenery in the UK, points out features of interest, explains what they are, and describes how these features came to be. It illustrates numerous regions, explaining classic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486453552Author Jacob BearFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

Regional Geology Guides provide a broad view and interpretation of the geology of a region.Book InformationISBN 9780852724651Author G.S. JohnstonFormat PaperbackImprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey

Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral commonly known as fool's gold. But despite being the most common sulfide on the earth's surface, pyrite's bright crystals have attracted a noteworthy amount of attention from many different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983652373Author Antonio ZamoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Zamora Consulting, LLCPublisher Zamora Consulting, LLCWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems describes all of the main Fossil Lagerstatten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) from around the world in a chronological order. It covers the history of research, stratigraphy and taphonomy, main faunal and floral...

Volcanic eruptions are the clear and dramatic expression of dynamic processes going on in planet Earth. The author, one of the most profound specialists in the field of volcanology, explains in a concise and easy to understand manner the basics and most...

State-of-the-art analysis of geological structures has become increasingly quantitative but traditionally, graphical methods are used in teaching. This innovative lab book provides a unified methodology for problem-solving in structural geology using...

This book is a brief summary of the course of lectures in Geochemistry for undergraduate and graduate students from other than Geological Departments (chemists, biologists, ecologists and naturalists). It describes the Earth's structure and some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464107764Author William RuddimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning

Among rock-forming minerals, the zeolite group is large and widespread, and is enormously important to industry. Zeolites form excellent crystals. The group is structurally complex and notable for its ability to exchange cations with surrounding...

Rock fractures control many of Earth's dynamic processes, including plate-boundary development, tectonic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and fluid transport in the crust. An understanding of rock fractures is also essential for effective exploitation of...

How are mountains formed? Why are there old and young mountains? Why do the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together? Why is the Pacific surrounded by a ring of volcanoes and earthquake prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are...

In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780118845472Author D. MillwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998283272Author Patrick NurreFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Northwest TreasuresPublisher Northwest TreasuresWeight(grams) 216g

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228816676Author Dwardu CardonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 203g

The book provides a valuable guide to the evaluation and understanding of ground and environmental conditions of sites and their surrounds. This is done through a series of annotated block models and supporting photographs of common geological and...

Mantle convection is the fundamental agent driving many of the geological features observed at the Earth's surface, including plate tectonics and plume volcanism. Yet many Earth scientists have an incomplete understanding of the process. This book...

Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide - either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic...

This is a comprehensive and practical book of facts and data about the Sun, planets, asteroids, comets, meteorites, the Kuiper belt and Centaur objects in our solar system. Also covered are properties of nearby stars, the interstellar medium, and...

Humanity's ever-increasing hunger for mineral raw materials, caused by a growing global population and ever increasing standards of living, has resulted in economic geology becoming a subject of urgent importance. This book provides a broad panorama...

Engineering rock mechanics is the discipline used to design structures built in rock. These structures encompass building foundations, dams, slopes, shafts, tunnels, caverns, hydroelectric schemes, mines, radioactive waste repositories and geothermal...

By far the best short introduction to the history of geology in printDDor out of it, for that matter. There is simply no other one-volume introduction to the whole sweep of the history of geology that one can safely recommend to students. More than that,...

In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake struck the city, leaving...

As a major text in igneous petrology, this innovative book offers a much-needed, radically different approach to the study of igneous rocks. Bridging a long-recognized gap in the literature by providing petrogenic models for magmatismin terms of global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952260387Author Stephen William HurrellFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint One Off PublishingPublisher One Off PublishingWeight(grams) 835g

New Zealand Landscape: Behind the Scene tells the story of New Zealand through the subject of geomorphology, a branch of earth science at the interface of geology and geography. Geomorphology is informally described as the 'science of scenery', and as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878425761Author Marc S HendrixFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Mountain PressPublisher Mountain PressWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 155mm...

"Get your head into the clouds with Aerial Geology." -The New York Times Book ReviewAerial Geology is an up-in-the-sky exploration of North America's 100 most spectacular geological formations. Crisscrossing the continent from the Aleutian Islands in...

This is a newly revised edition of the Natural History Museum's classic introduction to the processes and products of change to the Earth's surface. It explains in accessible language how the planet is being constantly remodelled by powerful natural...

This is a newly revised edition of the Natural History Museum's classic introduction to the processes and products of change to the Earth's surface. It explains in accessible language how the planet is being constantly remodelled by powerful natural...

Provides the first comprehensive review of the current state of the science on tills It is critical that glacial scientists continue to refine their interpretations of ancient archives of subglacial processes, specifically those represented by tills and...

Egypt is primarily a land of deserts and mountains, the habitable Nile Valley and Delta occupying less than 5 percent of the country. Although the ancient Egyptians lived on only a small fraction of the land, they made extensive use of resources from the...