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  • The Geologic Time Scale 2012

    Edited by Felix Gradstein, J.G. Ogg, Mark D. Schmitz, Gabi M. Ogg ...
    The Geologic Time Scale 2012, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Best Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the framework for deciphering the history of our planet Earth. The authors have been at the forefront of chronostratigraphic research and initiatives to create an international geologic time scale for many years, and the charts in ... Read more

    $101.69 USD

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  • The Mountains of Saint Francis

    Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth

    by Walter Alvarez ...
    One of the world's leading geologists takes readers into Italy's Apennine Mountain Range—the Mountains of Saint Francis—on a journey to discover the fascinating secrets of the Earth's deep history.Modern geologists, Walter Alvarez among them, showed in the last decades of the twentieth century that the history of our planet has witnessed events profoundly more dramatic than even the most ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Parting of the Sea

    How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus

    by Barbara J. Sivertsen ...
    "[Sivertsen] has done an exceptional job of digging into the wide variety of fields relevant to understanding the Exodus. A superb and stunning book." ―Paul and Elizabeth Barber, authors of When They Severed Earth from SkyFor more than four decades, biblical experts have tried to place the story of Exodus into historical context—without success. What could explain the Nile turning to blood, ... Read more

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  • Volcanoes in Human History

    The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

    by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. HelensWhen the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as one hundred thousand people perished from the blast and ensuing famine. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology

    by Gerardo Alguacil, Jens Havskov ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work provides an up-to-date overview of modern instruments used in earthquake seismology as well as a description of theoretical and practical aspects of seismic instrumentation. The main topics are:• Choosing and installing equipment for seismic stations• Designing and setting up seismic networks and arrays• Maintaining and calibrating seismic instrumentsIt also provides detailed ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Performance-Based Seismic Engineering: Vision for an Earthquake Resilient Society

    Edited by Matej Fischinger ...
    Series Book 32 - Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
    The Bled workshops have traditionally produced reference documents providing visions for the future development of earthquake engineering as foreseen by leading researchers in the field. The participants of the 2011 workshop built on the tradition of these events initiated by Professors Fajfar and Krawinkler to honor their important research contributions and have now produced a book providing ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Non-Renewable Resource Issues

    Geoscientific and Societal Challenges

    Edited by Richard Sinding-Larsen, Friedrich-W. Wellmer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    All the solid fuels fossil energy and mineral commodities we use come out of the Earth. Modern society is increasingly dependent on mineral and fossil energy sources. They differ in availability, cost of production, and geographical distribution. Even if solid fuels, fossil energy resources and mineral commodities are non-renewable, the extracted metals can to a large extent be recycled and used ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Geostatistical Methods for Reservoir Geophysics

    by Leonardo Azevedo, Amílcar Soares ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a geostatistical framework for data integration into subsurface Earth modeling. It offers extensive geostatistical background information, including detailed descriptions of the main geostatistical tools traditionally used in Earth related sciences to infer the spatial distribution of a given property of interest. This framework is then directly linked with applications in the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences

    by Andrew D. Miall ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    It has been more than a decade since the appearance of the First Edition of this book. Much progress has been made, but some controversies remain. The original ideas of Sloss and of Vail (building on the early work of Blackwelder, Grabau, Ulrich, Levorsen and others) that the stratigraphic record could be subdivided into sequences, and that these sequences store essential information about basin ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Radon: A Tracer for Geological, Geophysical and Geochemical Studies

    by Mark Baskaran ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book reviews all the major research accomplishments and summarizes the different applications of radon. It serves as a solid reference book for researchers who are interested in the U-series radionuclides and noble gases as tracers and chronometers. Radon has been widely utilized as a powerful tracer to quantify a number of processes that include gas exchange rates between air and water, ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis

    Edited by David G. Roberts ...
    Series series Regional Geology and Tectonics
    Expert petroleum geologists David Roberts and Albert Bally bring you Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis, volume one in a three-volume series covering Phanerozoic regional geology and tectonics. It has been written to provide you with a detailed overview of geologic rift systems, passive margins, and cratonic basins, it features the basic principles necessary to ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Palms and People in the Amazon

    by Nigel Smith ...
    Series series Geobotany Studies
    This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of many landscapes in Amazonia, and they are important culturally, economically, and for a variety of ecological roles they play. Humans have been reorganizing the biological ... Read more

    $143.09 USD