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  • Pampean Lakes

    Edited by Eduardo Luis Piovano, Silvina Stutz, Juan Antonio Morales, Daniel Ariztegui ...
    This book is for advanced students, researchers and professionals from Earth and Environmental Sciences. The Argentinean Pampa plain is an extensive region of ca 673,000 km2 between 30°S and 38°S in South America. The region encompasses a large number of lakes (>50,000) of highly variable sizes. Pampean lakes have been very sensitive to past and recent climatic change. Thus, paleolimnological ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

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  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    by Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil

    A Lost World of Gondwana

    by Giuseppe Leonardi, Ismar de Souza Carvalho ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil is the first full-length study of dinosaurs in Brazil. Some 500 dinosaur trackways from the Cretaceous period still remain in the Rio do Peixe basins of Brazil, making it one of the largest trackways in the world. Veteran paleontologists Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho painstakingly document and analyze each track found at 37 individual sites and at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climatic and Environmental History of Isla de los Estados, Argentina

    by Juan Federico Ponce, Marilén Fernández ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the result of ten years’ of scientific research carried out by the authors on Isla de los Estados. The research includes their doctoral thesis and many published scientific papers related to the island.The book is divided into two principal parts. The first part covers different social and natural aspects of this remote island and includes chapters on the scientific and historical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil

    Edited by Bianca Carvalho Vieira, André Augusto Rodrigues Salgado, Leonardo José Cordeiro Santos ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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, like the Serra do ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution

    A Look into the Past

    Edited by Carina Hoorn, Frank Wesselingh ...
    The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia. The different driving mechanisms for landscape evolution are explored by reviewing the history of the Amazonian Craton, the associated sedimentary basins, and the role of mountain uplift and climate change.This book provdes an insight into the Meso- and Cenozoic record ... Read more

    $191.00 USD

  • The Soils of Mexico

    by Pavel Krasilnikov, Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, Robert J. Ahrens, Carlos Omar Cruz-Gaistardo, Sergey Sedov, Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo ...
    Series series World Soils Book Series
    Mexico is an extensive country with an extremely complex mosaic of landscapes. The soils of Mexico have still not been completely studied, and there are few publications available on this subject. This book provides a state-of-the-art view on Mexican soils, their geographical distribution, their use and degradation. This is a first attempt to give a systematized characteristic of the soil ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Cerrados of Brazil

    Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna

    Edited by Paulo Oliveira, Robert Marquis ...
    While the imperiled Brazilian rainforest has been the focus of considerable international media attention and conservation efforts, the massive grasslands of Brazil—known as the cerrados—which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little notice. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil

    Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent

    Edited by Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim, Monica Heilbron ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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, on the other hand, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution

    A Focus on South Western Gondwana

    Edited by Claudio Gaucher, Alcides N. Sial, Galen P. Halverson, Hartwig E. Frimmel ...
    Series Book 16 - Developments in Precambrian Geology
    The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems. It contains a detailed account of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian geological record in a poorly-known part of the world, which is at the same time key to understand fundamental processes at the Proterozoic-Cambrian ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Costa Rican Ecosystems

    Edited by Maarten Kappelle ...
    In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic Costa Rican Natural History, research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin American nation has evolved from a species-level approach to the study of entire ecosystems. And from the lowland dry forests of Guanacaste to the montane cloud forests of Monteverde, from the ... Read more

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  • Geology, Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Palaeoenvironments and Palaeoclimatology of the South American Pampas

    Edited by Germán M. Gasparini, Jorge Rabassa, Eduardo P. Tonni ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together for the first time different palaeontological and geological aspects (e.g., palaeoecology, biochronostratigraphy, palaeoclimatology, palaeoenvironments, magnetostratigraphy, glaciations) of the Pampean region (Argentina) and neighboring areas from the Late Miocene up to the Holocene. It provides a structural basis for understanding more specific treatments of Late ... Read more

    $161.09 USD