Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “cliff ollier”
Skip side bar filters

  • Gondwana Landscapes in southern South America

    Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil

    Edited by Jorge Rabassa, Cliff Ollier ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents extensive and new information on the geomorphology of cratonic areas of southern South America. It includes valuable data relating to recurrent controversies in general geomorphology beyond the boundaries of South America and reveals the great need to integrate many different aspects of geomorphology in regional studies. With the focus on ancient landscapes and especially on ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Origin of Mountains

    by Cliff Ollier, Colin Pain ...
    The Origins of Mountains approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. The book illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers and glaciers, the present mountainous landscapes were created. It also gives evidence that this uplift only occured ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Aerial Geology

    A High-Altitude Tour of North America's Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks

    by Mary Caperton Morton ...
    "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 Alaska to the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Mary Caperton Morton brings you on a fantastic tour, sharing aerial and satellite photography, explanations ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Rifts and Passive Margins

    Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems

    by Michal Nemčok ...
    Rifts and passive margins are extremely important for the petroleum industry, as they are areas of high sedimentation and can contain significant oil and gas resources. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of rifts and passive margins as a whole. It synthesises in one volume the existing information devoted to specific aspects of these vitally important hydrocarbon habitats. This ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Plate Tectonics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Molnar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept gradually became part of geology's basic principles. We now know that the Earth's crust and upper mantle consist of a small number of rigid plates that move, and there are significant boundaries between pairs of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Charles Lyell and Modern Geology

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Foundations of Geological Science and Modern Earth History

    by T. G. Bonney, Kevin Nicholls ...
    In "Charles Lyell and Modern Geology," T. G. Bonney offers an insightful examination of the pivotal contributions made by Charles Lyell to the field of geology. This scholarly work delves into Lyell's fundamental ideas of uniformitarianism, which posited that the processes shaping the Earth today have been consistent throughout geologic time. Bonney's literary style combines rigorous analysis with ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Shaky Ground

    America's Earthquake Alert

    by John J. Nance ...
    A "gripping" **look at the massive disasters that could strike at any moment, from a New York Times–bestselling author ( San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle).Far beneath the earth's surface, great tectonic plates grind against one another with incredible pressure that must—inevitably—be released. Earthquakes manifest with little warning, upending buildings, shattering infrastructure, and unleashing ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pyrite

    A Natural History of Fool's Gold

    by David Rickard ...
    Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral sometimes known as fool's gold. Pyrite behaves like stone and shines like metal, and its dual nature makes it a source of both metals and sulfur. Despite being the most common sulfide mineral on the earth's surface, pyrite's bright crystals have attracted the attention of many different cultures, and its nearly identical visual appearance ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Biblical Geology

    The Gap Theory Model of Creation in Light of its Experienced and Critical Opponents

    by Daniel G. McCrillis Th. D. ...
    In this book, we will discover the most accurate account of creation as taught from Scripture and verified by science. We will leave no stone unturned as we venture through the following fields of study: Stratigraphy, Meteorology, Obliquity, Dinosaurs, The Fossil Record, Star Light, Greek, Hebrew, Angelology, Creation, the Fall, History, and Theology. In this book, the Gap Theory Model of Creation ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Unearthing the Nation

    Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China

    by Grace Yen Shen ...
    Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • The Soils of Taiwan

    by Zueng-Sang Chen, Zeng-Yei Hseu, Chen-Chi Tsai ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Taiwan. It includes sections on soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil properties, soil classification, soil fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industry, future soil issues. The book summarizes what is known about the soils in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD