Catálogo de libros: Geología y la litosfera

4942 Catálogo de libros: Geología y la litosfera

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  • Ecology of Meromictic Lakes
    This volume presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area. After an introduction to the terminology and geographic distribution of meromictic lakes, three concise chapters describe their physical, chemical and biological features. The following eight chapters present case studies of more than a dozen meromictic lakes, ...
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    247,35 €

  • Raw Materials for Future Energy Supply
    Friedrich-W. Wellmer / Friedrich-WWellmer / Jens Gutzmer / Peter Buchholz
    This is the first book that analyses the future raw materials supply from the demand side of a society that chiefly relies on renewable energies, which is of great significance for us all. It addresses primary and secondary resources and substitution, not only from technical but also socioeconomic and ethical points of view.The 'Energiewende' (Energy Transition) will change our...
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    134,79 €

  • Biogeochemical Technologies for Managing Pollution in Polar Ecosystems
    Vladimir N. Bashkin
    This edited book is devoted to environmental risk management in gas industry impacted polar ecosystems of Russia, one of the hottest topics of modern environmental science. The contributions from experts cover topics that shed new light on the impacts of oil and natural gas production on arctic ecosystems in the country as well as biogeochemical engineering technologies to mana...
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    136,04 €

  • Cities and Mega-Cities
    Frederic R. Siegel / Frederic RSiegel
    This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them. In nine chapters, the book focuses on rehabilitation and redevelopment projects aimed at converting shantytowns/slums into well serviced neighborhoods via secure housing,...
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    73,18 €

  • Theory and Technology of Rock Excavation for Civil Engineering
    Dingxiang Zou
    This book summarizes the technical advances in recent decades and the various theories on rock excavation raised by scholars from different countries, including China and Russia. It not only focuses on rock blasting but also illustrates a number of non-blasting methods, such as mechanical excavation in detail. The book consists of 3 parts: Basic Knowledge, Surface Excavation an...
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    150,01 €

  • Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology
    Sreepat Jain
    This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters of each organism, providing fundamental information for palaeontologists and palaeobiologists alike. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction and goes on to describe the organism’s morphology in ...
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    207,08 €

  • Blue Carbon
    Daniel M. Alongi / Daniel MAlongi
    This work summarizes the science and management of a rapidly expanding topic in climate science, namely adaptation and mitigation. The term ’blue carbon’ refers to the rates, pathways and volumes of greenhouse carbon sequestered in coastal estuarine and marine ecosystems such as salt marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows. Blue carbon and its vital role in climate change mitig...
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    85,52 €

  • Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards
    This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015. The proceedings discuss the beginning of a new era in the study and exploration of the solar system’s minor bodies. International Asteroid Day commemorates the Tunguska event of June 30th, 1908. The workshop’s goal was to promot...
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    209,97 €

  • São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil
    The region of the São Francisco river valley in eastern Brazil encompasses two main components of the geologic framework of the South American continent: the São Francisco craton and its marginal orogenic belts. Cratons, as the oldest, differentiated and relatively stable pieces of the continental lithosphere, preserve a substantial part of the Earth’s memory. Orogenic belts, o...
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    221,37 €

  • Shapes and Dynamics of Granular Minor Planets
    Ishan Sharma
    This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics of deformable solid bodies. These methods are then employed to small bodies in the Solar System. With several space missions underway and more being planned, interest in our immediate neighbourhood is growing. In this spirit, this book investigates various phenomena ...
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    136,54 €

  • Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region
    This book concisely describes the architecture of the oil and gas pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region and analyzes the status quo and perspectives of oil and gas production in this region. The authors present numerous projects, each of which has made a substantial contribution to the development of pipeline transport and transit in this part of the world, and discuss the...
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    406,82 €

  • Lithosphere Dynamics and Sedimentary Basins of the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Areas
    This book focuses on the links between deep earth (mantle) and shallow processes in areas of active tectonics in the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Areas. It also provides key information for energy resources in these areas. The book is a compilation of selected papers from the Task Force of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP). It comprises a set of research studies from...
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    143,20 €

  • Earth in Upheaval
    Immanuel Velikovsky
    In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of humanity on a new basis. He presents the results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research in an easily understandable, even entertaining manner. Inspite - or even because - of the disgraceful hostility, provoked by his theories, this book...
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    27,06 €

  • Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences
    This Open Access handbook published at the IAMG’s 50th anniversary, presents a compilation of invited path-breaking research contributions by award-winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It contains 45 chapters that are categorized broadly into five parts (i) theory, (ii) general applications, (iii) exploration and resource estimation, (iv) review...
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    44,75 €

  • Hydrogeology
    Bernward Hölting / Wilhelm G. Coldewey
    This textbook provides a complete introduction to Hydrogeology. It is a comprehensive reference for earth science professionals involved in groundwater exploitation as well as for geotechnical engineers. This English translation of the German textbook 'Hydrogeologie' by Hölting & Coldewey, which has been published in its 8th edition, provides insights into the sources and reser...
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    49,93 €

  • Coastal Change, Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities
    This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the fields of coastal science, community resilience, habitat restoration, sustainable...
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    160,49 €

  • Chicxulub
    Cathy Ezrailson / David Shonting
    This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts. The story then turns to the discovery of a global sediment layer attributed to the fallout from the impact and a piecing togethe...
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    62,04 €

  • Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century
    Clifford J. Cunningham
    Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham, a dedicated scholar of asteroids, includes a large set of newly translated correspondence as...
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    136,94 €

  • Nicolaus Steno
    Paul Maquet / Troels Kardel
    This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as 'Nicolaus Steno'. We learn about the scientist’s family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of his many pioneering achieve...
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    137,24 €

  • Magpie Mind
    Eileen Berry
    “My magpie mind collects pieces in a puzzle.” — Eileen Berry,  p 10, Bye Bye Blackbird “Magpies were always there in our English garden, pecking around and singling out particular objects. Beautiful black and white birds with loud calls to each other. That is the way this book was put together.” — Eileen BerryThis collection of poetry inspires the mind and imagination with memo...
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    11,84 €

  • Observing the Volcano World
    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to be addressed for future progress. It shows how volcano crises are managed in practice, and helps to establish best practices.  Consequently the book brings together authors from ...
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    97,68 €

  • Spatial Modeling Principles in Earth Sciences
    Zekai Sen
    This is a revised and updated second edition, including new chapters on temporal and point uncertainty model, as well as on sampling and deterministic modeling. It is a comprehensive presentation of spatial modeling techniques used in the earth sciences, outlining original techniques developed by the author. Data collection in the earth sciences is difficult and expensive, but ...
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    207,05 €

  • Geology
    Dr. Diana Prince / DrDiana Prince
    This book is about the beautiful planet we call home. Ever-changing and dynamic, the earth exhibits brilliant design. It has a power and a majesty all its own. It sustains us and provides for us. This book examines the powerful forces that shape this diverse and unique planet. ...
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    44,19 €

  • Geology
    Dr. Diana Prince / DrDiana Prince
    This book is about the beautiful planet we call home. Ever-changing and dynamic, the earth exhibits brilliant design. It has a power and a majesty all its own. It sustains us and provides for us. This book examines the powerful forces that shape this diverse and unique planet. ...
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    34,13 €

  • La Garrotxa Volcanic Field of Northeast Spain
    This informative book takes readers on an enjoyable journey through the La Garrotxa volcanoes. In addition to a general description of the main geological and volcano logical values of the region, it also provides a detailed account of the history of the region, its biological diversity, and its cultural heritage including architecture, folklore and gastronomy. La Garrotxa Volc...
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    140,39 €

  • The Ni-Cu-(PGE) Aguablanca Ore Deposit (SW Spain)
    Rubén Piña
    This book describes the Aguablanca Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposit, the first, and to date only, mineralization of this type in southwestern (SW) Europe. Since its discovery in 1993, this ore deposit has attracted the attention of the resource geology community due to its unusual geodynamic context, namely an active plate margin. The book focuses on the key features of the deposit an...
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    68,00 €

  • Atlas of Bedforms in the Western Mediterranean
    This atlas illustrates the characteristics of present-day bedforms, from the shoreline to deep-sea environments, and it also includes short reviews of the main mechanisms that generate such bedforms. The atlas is aimed at the research community, in addition to students, the public at large and companies with interests in the marine environment. The book is divided into seven se...
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    220,77 €

  • Geologic Structures of the Arctic Basin
    This book contains the most complete description of the geologic and geophysical data of the  structure of Arctic Basin including structures of the earth’s crust, crustal and acoustic basement, and sedimentary cover. The book includes information about extracted and studied cores and samples; observed, processed and interpreted data on geophysical anomalies and different concep...
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    47,39 €

  • Main Tectonic Events and Metallogeny of the North China Craton
    This book focuses on the metallogeny and main tectonicevents of the North China Craton from early Precambrian to Phanerozoic. Itcovers the Archean crustal growth, Paleoproterozoicrifting-subduction-collision processes, Great Oxidation Event,Meso-Neoproterozoic multiple rifting, Phanerozoic reworking of the North ChinaCraton, as well as metallogeny related to above different pro...
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    290,84 €

  • Evolution of Magmatic and Diamond-Forming Systems of the Earth’s Lower Mantle
    Anna V. Spivak / Anna VSpivak / Yuriy A. Litvin / Yuriy ALitvin
    This book sheds valuable new light on the genetic mineralogy of lower-mantle diamonds and syngenetic minerals. It presents groundbreaking experimental results revealing the melting relations of ultrabasic and basic associations and a physicochemical peritectic mechanism of their evolution.   The experimental investigations included here reveal the key multicomponent, multiphase...
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    158,03 €


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