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  • Geological Journeys

    A traveller’s guide to South Africa’s rocks and landforms

    by Nick Norman, Gavin Whitfield ...
    Geological Journeys: a traveller’s guide to South Africa’s rocks and landforms is an essential companion for car journeys. How often have we wondered about the jaunty tilt of a mountain ahead, the unusual patterns of a road cutting, the colour and texture of the roadside soil, or the purpose of a distant minehead? This handy volume offers answers and explanations about features along all the major ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • 50 Must-See Geological Sites in South Africa

    by Gavin Whitfield ...
    The book presents 50 of the most recognizable and geologically interesting sites around South Africa, including some of palaeontological or historical renown and some of mining interest. The diverse selection includes sites such as Chapman’s Peak, Howick Falls, Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens, Mapungubwe, Tswaing Meteorite Crater and the Fraserburg Fossil Surface.Each site is unpacked to ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Structural Geology

    by Haakon Fossen ...
    This market-leading textbook has been fully updated in response to extensive user feedback. It includes a new chapter on joints and veins, additional examples from around the world, stunning new field photos, and extended online resources with new animations and exercises. The book's practical emphasis, hugely popular in the first edition, features applications in the upper crust, including ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids

    by Ryen Caenn, HCH Darley, George R. Gray ...
    The petroleum industry in general has been dominated by engineers and production specialists. The upstream segment of the industry is dominated by drilling/completion engineers. Usually, neither of those disciplines have a great deal of training in the chemistry aspects of drilling and completing a well prior to its going on production. The chemistry of drilling fluids and completion fluids have a ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Geological Wonders of Namibia

    by Michel Detay ...
    This stunning depiction of geology in Namibia combines searingly beautiful photography with clear explanations of how the varied landscapes formed. Arranged chronologically (starting 13.8 billion years ago), the chapters each deal with a particular event or process that has resulted in the formation under discussion. These include the early beginnings of the Earth, meteorites, canyons and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • A Natural History of Time

    by Pascal Richet ...
    Translated by John Venerella ...
    The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Biomarker Guide: Volume 1, Biomarkers and Isotopes in the Environment and Human History

    by K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan ...
    The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role that biomarker technology plays both in petroleum exploration and in understanding Earth history and processes. Biomarkers and Isotopes in the Environment and Human History details the origins of biomarkers and introduces ... Read more

    $122.19 USD

  • Geological and Mud Logging in Drilling Control

    Catalogue of Typical Cases

    by Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $49.49 USD

  • Earth History and Palaeogeography

    by Trond H. Torsvik, L. Robin M. Cocks ...
    Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the evolution of the Earth's biota. These new and very detailed maps provide a complete and integrated Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography. They illustrate the development ... Read more

    $89.39 USD

  • Arsenic & Rice

    by Andrew A. Meharg, Fang-Jie Zhao ...
    Rice is the staple food for half of the world’s population. Consumption of rice is the major exposure route globally to the class one, non-threshold carcinogen inorganic arsenic. This book explains the sources of arsenic to paddy soils and the biogeochemical processes and plant physiological attributes of paddy soil-rice ecosystems that lead to high concentrations of arsenic in rice grain. It ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 7

    Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology

    Edited by Giorgio Lollino, Massimo Arattano, Silvia Peppoloni, Marco Giardino, Ricardo Oliveira ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes and deals with education and the professional ethics, which scientists, regulators and practitioners of engineering geology inevitably have to face through the purposes, methods, limitations and findings of their works. This volume presents contributions on the professional responsibilities of engineering geologists; the interaction of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Coupled DEM-CFD Analyses of Landslide-Induced Debris Flows

    by Tao Zhao ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book reflects the latest research results in computer modelling of landslide-induced debris flows. The book establishes an understanding of the initiation and propagation mechanisms of landslides by means of numerical simulations, so that mitigation strategies to reduce the long-term losses from landslide hazards can be devised.In this context, the book employs the Discrete Element Method ... Read more

    $143.09 USD