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  • The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes

    Edited by Andrés Folguera, Eduardo Contreras-Reyes, Nemesio Heredia, Alfonso Encinas, Sofía B. Iannelli, Verónica Oliveros, Federico M. Dávila, Gilda Collo, Laura Giambiagi, Andrei Maksymowicz, María Paula Iglesia Llanos, Martín Turienzo, Maximiliano Naipauer, Darío Orts, Vanesa D. Litvak, Orlando Alvarez, César Arriagada ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics; magmatism; long and short term deformation; spatial development of ancient orogenic processes that control Andean reactivations; relation ... Read more

    $107.09 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

  • Caldera Volcanism

    Analysis, Modelling and Response

    Edited by Joachim Gottsmann, Joan Marti ...
    Series Book 10 - Developments in Volcanology
    This volume aims at providing answers to some puzzling questions concerning the formation and the behavior of collapse calderas by exploring our current understanding of these complex geological processes. Addressed are problems such as:- How do collapse calderas form? - What are the conditions to create fractures and slip along them to initiate caldera collapse and when are these conditions ... Read more

    $166.49 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

    by Marcelo Reguero, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Tania Dutra, Sergio Marenssi, Francisco Goin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, ... Read more

    $49.49 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