Geology

This volume follows a Specialized Symposium on "Mantle denudation in slow spreading ridges and in ophiolites", held at the XII EUG Meeting in Strasbourg, spring 1993. During the meeting it was felt that the contribu tions to the Symposium...

In the last ten years offshore mineral exploration programmes have increasingly concentrated on the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zones adjacent to coastal states. This book gives an integrated treatment of the various mineral types occuring in these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692876862Author Richard William Graeme IIIFormat HardbackImprint Copper Czar PublishingPublisher Copper Czar PublishingWeight(grams) 866g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276293Author Frits AgterbergFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992565206Author James MaxlowFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Terrella PressPublisher Terrella PressWeight(grams) 1588g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994643308Author Dr Peter T ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Felix PublishingPublisher Felix PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989084024Author Rick ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Gigaflood.comPublisher Gigaflood.comWeight(grams) 381g

" ... as soon as one has traversed the greater part of the wild sea, one comes upon such a huge quantity of ice that nowhere in the whole world has the like been known." "This ice is of a wonderful nature. It lies at times quite still, as one would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994643261Author Dr Peter T ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Felix PublishingPublisher Felix PublishingWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306447648Author Jack FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business MediaWeight(grams)...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP Conference on Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks held in Ottawa, Canada, July, 2008. This series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and...

My book Metamorphic Rocks and Metamorphic Belts (in Japanese) was published by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, in Tokyo in 1965. A few years later, Mr D. Lynch-Blosse of George Allen & Unwin Ltd contacted me to explore the possibility of translating it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333072820Author J. A. SteersFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 454g

K.R. McClay Department of Geology, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Egham, Surrey, England TW20 OEX. Since the first Thrust and Nappe Tectonics Conference in London in 1979 (McClay & Price 1981), and the Toulouse Meeting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998547770Author Steven A FechnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Fleeting Edge PressPublisher Fleeting Edge PressWeight(grams) 354g

This book introduces the reader to the principles of terrrane analysis, and describes how accretion tectonics relates to classic plate tectonics theory and what this represents in terms of mountain building and continental growth processes. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674499638Author Kirtley F MatherFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 612g

The advent of ecosystem ecology has created great difficulties for ecologists primarily trained as biologists, since inevitably as the field grew, it absorbed components of other disciplines relatively foreign to most ecologists yet vital to the...

From the reviews: "...one of the charms of this book is that it is different from both structural geology text books and mechanics texts. Bayly has brought these two fields together admirably, with great intelligence, imagination and originality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903056243Author B. W. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & IrelandPublisher Mineralogical Society of...

The International Association for Sediment Water Science sponsors a symposium triennially, during which the latest developments in the study of interactions between sediments and their overlying waters are presented. These proceedings are a collection of...

These are exciting times for exobiology. The ubiquity of organic molecules in interstellar clouds, comets and asteroids strongly supports a cosmic perspective on the origin of life. Data from both ground-based telescopes and the recently launched...

The Proceedings of the International Basement Tectonics Symposium form a series of publications dealing with various aspects of intraplate tectonics. These conferences are generally hels alternately in the United States and elsewhere (Cairo, Oslo,...

Geoscientific modelling has some unique requirements. Modern geological applications require increasingly quantitative and accurate rock property characerizations within the three-dimensional subsurface environment. this problem differs from that faced...

This volume, based on the Russian edition publised in 1980, presents the fundamentals of mathematical geology. New developments which have taken place in the last ten years or so have been taken into account as far as possible, and this English edition...

Characterizes the geology of Japan by describing the large scale construction of each geotectonically defined terrane and mass, and tracing the geotectonic history of the island chain. Also considers the submarine topography and geology around the...

From reviews of the first edition: "well organized . . . Recommended as an introductory text for undergraduates" -- AAAS Science Books and Films "well written and illustrated" -- Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyBook...

This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity...

This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity...

Most of our knowledge about the physical structure and the chemical composition of the Earth's deep interior is inferred from seismic data. The interpretation of seismic waves generally follows the assumption that the Earth's physical structure is...

This book is for geoscience researchers and students with interests in climate change, paleohydrology, and sedimentology. "Studies of Cave Sediments" is unique in that it is the first comprehensive volume on cave sediments, provides...

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The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin synthesizes more than a decade of process-level research into the flows of water, carbon, nutrients and other bioactive elements through Amazon terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on the unique...

Among the most widely known of stories relating the destruction of entire cities is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah some 4350 years ago. These two cities, and Jericho as well, are situated along a major fault extending 1100 kilometres from the axis...

Geochemical reaction modeling plays an increasingly vital role in several areas of geoscience, from environmental geochemistry and petroleum geology to the study of geothermal and hydrothermal fluids. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the use...

“Medical Geology of Africa: A Research Primer” explores the connection between geological materials and processes and human health in Africa. A synopsis on current state of knowledge is given for a selection of some of the more critical issues in African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423965Author Mark J CampFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659762710Author El-Nafaty Jalo MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

Get fast facts at your fingertips with DK Pocket Eyewitness Earth, packed with bite-sized chunks of information that will encourage and inform even the most reluctant readers. Learn about the geology and geography that make up our fascinating planet -...