Catálogo de libros: Geología y la litosfera

5755 Catálogo de libros: Geología y la litosfera

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  • Active Volcanoes of the Southwest Indian Ocean
    A brief history of the observation of Piton de la Fournaise central area.- Geodynamic setting of La Réunion Island.- The construction of La Réunion Island.- Geology and morphostructure of Piton de la Fournaise.- Erosion and volcaniclastic sedimentation at Piton de La Fournaise: from source to deep marine environment.- Magma paths at Piton de la Fournaise volcano.- Pre-historic ...
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    176,14 €

  • Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
    Lutz D. Schmadel
    The quantity of numbered minor planets is now approaching half a million. Together with this Addendum, the sixth edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, which is the IAU’s official reference for the field, now covers more than 19,000 named minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names provides a...
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    136,07 €

  • Atlas of Shear Zone Structures in Meso-scale
    Soumyajit Mukherjee
    Study of structures associated with shear zones is a crucial aspect to understand the deformation mechanism associated with such zones. Shear zones have been emphasized since it will lead to many latest applied studies such as radioactive waste disposal, groundwater flow etc. For the sake of brevity, research papers cannot show all possible variation in structures found in shea...
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    135,75 €

  • Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas
    Anders Omstedt
    This new edition of Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas brings the modeling up to date, taking into account multiple stressors acting on aquatic systems. The combination of acidification and increasing amounts of anoxic waters associated with eutrophication puts severe stress on the marine environment. The detection and attribution of anthropogenic changes...
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    136,32 €

  • Multiscale Seismic Tomography
    Dapeng Zhao
    This book on multiscale seismic tomography, written by one of the leaders in the field, is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals in Earth and planetary sciences who need to broaden their horizons about seismotectonics, volcanism, and interior structure and dynamics of the Earth and Moon. It describes the state-of-the-art in seismic tom...
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    136,36 €

  • The Soils of Antarctica
    James G. Bockheim
    This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region. Soils have been studied in Antarctica for nearly 100 years. Although only 0.35% (45,000 km2) of Antarctica is ice-free, its weathered, unconsolidated material qualify as 'soils'. Soils of Antarctica is richly illustrated with nearly 150 images and provisional maps are ...
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    221,37 €

  • Biodiversity and Earth History
    Edvard Glücksman / Jens Boenigk / Sabina Wodniok
    This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth’s geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major concepts step by step with detailed textual explanations complemented by detailed figures, diagrams and vibrant pictures. Thanks to its layout, the...
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    101,31 €

  • Stochastic Flood Forecasting System
    This book presents the novel formulation and development of a Stochastic Flood Forecasting System, using the Middle River Vistula basin in Poland as a case study. The system has a modular structure, including models describing the rainfall-runoff and snow-melt processes for tributary catchments and the transformation of a flood wave within the reach. The sensitivity and uncerta...
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    136,01 €

  • Petroleum Geosciences
    Soumyajit Mukherjee
    This book incorporates original and review articles on several aspects of petroleum geosciences from Indian terrains, both onshore and offshore, and includes diverse geological (tectonic, sedimentological, organic geochemical, paleontological, stratigraphic, modelling and various others), geophysical methods and policy aspects. ...
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    210,08 €

  • Biodiversity of Semiarid Landscape
    Katari Bhaskar / Sunil Nautiyal / Y.D. Imran Khan
    This study presents authentic data compiled from field experiments and investigations, and provides a point of reference for any future changes associated with anthropogenic activity in semiarid ecosystems. Three years of continuous and rigorous empirical research on biodiversity (from phytoplankton to higher plants and from zooplankton to higher animals - all flora and fauna) ...
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    136,72 €

  • 3D, 4D and Predictive Modelling of Major Mineral Belts in Europe
    Pär Weihed
    This book presents the results of the major EU project Promine. For the first time there is now a European database available on mineral deposits, as well as 3D, 4D and predictive models of major mineral belts in Europe: Fennoscandia (Skellefteå and Vihanti-Pyhäsalmi), the Fore-Sudetic basin (Kupferschiefer deposits in Poland and Germany), the Hellenic belt in northern Greece, ...
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    147,75 €

  • Rivers - Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes
    This book describes the domain of research and investigation of physical, chemical and biological attributes of flowing water, and it deals with a cross-disciplinary field of study combining physical, geophysical, hydraulic, technological, environmental interests. It aims to equip engineers, geophysicists, managers working in water-related arenas as well as advanced students an...
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    211,22 €

  • Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests around the Northern Hemisphere
    Warm-temperate deciduous forests are 'southern', mainly oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia, Europe and eastern North America. Climatic analysis has shown that these forests extend from typical temperate climates to well into the warm-temperate zone, in areas where winters are a bit too ...
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    146,16 €

  • From Geoheritage to Geoparks
    This unique book is dedicated to helping promote geoheritage, geoconservation, and geoparks in Africa and the Middle East. Local, regional, global and thematic case studies including a geoheritage toolkit are used to illustrate the scope and depth of geoheritage and highlight some current geoparks and aspiring candidates in Africa, the Middle East, China , Europe,and Australia....
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    145,48 €

  • Multi-scale Quantitative Diagenesis and Impacts on Heterogeneity of Carbonate Reservoir Rocks
    Fadi Henri Nader
    This book is both a review and a look to the future, highlighting challenges for better predicting quantitatively the impact of diagenesis on reservoir rocks. Classical diagenesis studies make use of a wide range of descriptive analytical techniques to explain specific, relatively time-framed fluid-rock interaction processes, and deduce their impacts on reservoir rocks. Future ...
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    154,50 €

  • Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
    Mashael Mohammed Al Saud
    During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a...
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    135,91 €

  • ICIPEG 2014
    This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 2014 (ICIPEG2014). Topics covered on the petroleum engineering side include reservoir modeling and simulation, enhanced oil recovery, unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, production and operation. Similarly geoscience presentations cover diverse areas in ...
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    210,46 €

  • Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil
    This book presents Brazil as a country of continental dimensions. Its territory has a large variety of rock types, geological structures and climates. The country has a large variety of landscapes, such as the humid plains of the Amazon River, the dry plateaus of the semi-arid region or the subtropical mountains of the southern region. On the coast, some plateaus and mountains,...
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    224,57 €

  • MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences
    Martin H. Trauth
    MATLAB® is used for a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, the generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series. This book introduces methods of data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB, such as basic statistics for univariate, bivariate and multivariate datasets, time-series analysis, signa...
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    81,44 €

  • 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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    205,70 €

  • Biogeochemical Technologies for Managing Pollution in Polar Ecosystems
    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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    134,69 €

  • Fossil Matter in the Geosphere
    Branimir Jovančićević / Jan Schwarzbauer
    The first volume in this new text book series covers comprehensively relevant aspects related to the appearance and characterisation of fossil matter in the geosphere such as kerogen, oil, shales and coals. As organic geochemistry is a modern scientific subject characterized by a high transdisciplinarity and located at the edge of chemistry, environmental sciences, geology and ...
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    68,22 €

  • The Vascular Flora of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise (Central Italy)
    Fabio Conti / Fabrizio Bartolucci
    This book provides an updated list of the vascular flora of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, incorporating the latest nomenclatural and floristic findings.The list of plants was extrapolated from a geographic database including all data from floristic or vegetational references and herbarium specimens concerning the Park area.This data storage tool was obtained f...
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    136,17 €

  • Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland
    This book examines old and new data on some of the 18th and 19th century earthquakes that either occurred or were clearly felt in southern regions of Poland. Particular emphasis is put on a detailed study and reinterpretation of the unusually severe Outer Western Carpathians earthquake on December 3, 1786 (7 I0, 5.3 Mw, 35 km depth), which was the last in a series of seismic ev...
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    135,95 €

  • Bioprospects of Coastal Eubacteria
    Sunita Borkar
    This book is a collection of scholarly articles presenting the research results of work carried out under the supervision of Prof. Saroj Bhosle, a microbiologist at Goa University, India.The objective of this volume is to document the comprehensive ecological knowledge of eubacteria isolated from diverse coastal ecosystems of Goa, little explored for microbiological studies. Th...
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    136,34 €

  • Geology of the Nepal Himalaya
    Megh Raj Dhital
    This book addresses the geology of the entire Himalayan range in Nepal, i.e., from the Gangetic plain in the south to the Tethyan zone in the north. Without a comprehensive look at the various Himalayan zones, it is practically impossible to fully grasp the processes at work behind the formation and development of the spectacular Himalaya. However, the goal is not merely to doc...
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    154,59 €

  • Sustainable Development of Sea-Corridors and Coastal Waters
    Edited in collaboration with TEN ECOPORT project, this volume contains the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ’Sustainable Development of the Sea-corridors and Coastal Waters’. The book highlights the advances of environmental pollution management on ports and coastal zones. Particular attention is given to water quality, issues that concern the marine environme...
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    136,20 €

  • Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America
    Jr. Harold W. Borns / Kirk Allen Maasch
    John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the east and west and probably was part of a greater continental glacier. He publish...
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    134,28 €

  • Environmental Management of River Basin Ecosystems
    This book offers a unique collection of inter- and multidisciplinary studies on river systems. Rivers have been the prime source of sustenance since the advent of civilization and river systems often form the basis for agriculture, transport, water, and land for domestic, commercial, and industrial activities, fostering economic prosperity. A river basin is a basic geographical...
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    211,65 €

  • Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril’sk Region
    A.Ya. Shevko / M.P. Gora / V.V. Ryabov
    The basis of this investigation is the petrographic and geochemical understanding of principal igneous rock types of the Noril’sk region, in order to demonstrate that these data provide unique and self-evident solutions to the problems of petrogenesis and mineralization. The results of the investigations are presented in two volumes: the first includes mainly text and the secon...
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    150,26 €