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  • Underlands

    A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Landscape

    by Ted Nield ...
    Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. We live among the remnants of those times but for the most part our mines are gone, our buildings are no longer local, and the flow of stone travels east to west.Spurred on by the erasure of history ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Falling Sky

    The Science and History of Meteorites and Why We Should Learn to Love Them

    by Ted Nield, Granta Books ...
    Did an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombard Earth with meteorites 470 million years ago? Astonishing new research suggests it did, and a revolutionary theory is emerging that this bombardment resulted in the single greatest increase in biological diversity on the planet since the origin of life.Introducing these discoveries to the general ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Map That Changed the World

    William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

    by Simon Winchester ...
    From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating biography of science detailing the story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling scientific discovery that was ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

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  • The Great Quake

    How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

    by Henry Fountain ...
    New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake—the second most powerful in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Why Does It Happen?: Earthquakes and Volcanoes

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series Book 1 - Why Does It Happen
    Earthquakes and volcano eruptions are natural disasters that are best faced prepared. Through this picture book, a child goes through multi-sensory learning that makes it easier to understand the intensity of quakes and volcanoes. With a picture book, a child gets to hear the stories, see the pictures, feel and even smell the pages. These create memories that make lessons stick. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Short History of Planet Earth

    Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice

    by J. D. MacDougall ...
    Series series Wiley Popular Scienc
    "A splendid introduction to geology and paleontology for the lay reader. To compress Earth's history into a single, lucidly written volume is a major achievement." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"Few people have both the knowledge and the writing ability to capture such a long and varied history in a compelling manner. In A Short History of Planet Earth, J.D. Macdougal demonstrates that he is ... Read more

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  • Geochemistry

    An Introduction

    by Francis Albarède ...
    Introducing the essentials of modern geochemistry for students across the Earth and environmental sciences, this new edition emphasises the general principles of this central discipline. Focusing on inorganic chemistry, Francis Albarède's refreshing approach is brought to topics that range from measuring geological time to the understanding of climate change. The author leads the student through ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Processes and Ore Deposits of Ultramafic-Mafic Magmas through Space and Time

    Edited by Sisir K. Mondal, William L. Griffin ...
    Processes and Ore Deposits of Ultramafic-Mafic Magmas through Space and Time focuses on the fundamental processes that control the formation of ore deposits from ultramafic-mafic magmas, covering chromite, platinum-group element (PGE), Ni-sulfides and Ti-V-bearing magnetite. The exploration, exploitation and use of these magmatic ores are important aspects of geology and directly linked to the ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Deep-Sea Mining

    Resource Potential, Technical and Environmental Considerations

    Edited by Rahul Sharma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining. Interest in exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals is seeing a revival due to diminishing grades and increasing costs of processing of terrestrial minerals as well as availability of several strategic ... Read more

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  • The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine: A Paired Watershed Experiment

    The First Decade (1987–1997)

    Edited by Stephen A. Norton, Ivan J. Fernandez ...
    The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM) is a long-term, whole-watershed study examining the effects of experimentally elevated N and S deposition on a treated watershed, in comparison to the adjacent reference watershed. The study is in a northern New England, USA, forested ecosystem, and focuses on soil and stream hydrological and biogeochemical processes, and chemical responses of vegetation. ... Read more

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  • IAG 150 Years

    Proceedings of the 2013 IAG Scientific Assembly, Postdam,Germany, 1–6 September, 2013

    Edited by Chris Rizos, Pascal Willis ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the IAG Scientific Assembly, Postdam, Germany, 1-6 September, 2013. The scientific sessions were focussed on the definition, implementation and scientific applications of reference frames; gravity field determination and applications; the observation and assessment of earth hazards. It presents a collection of the ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Catastrophes

    Views from Natural and Human Sciences

    Edited by Andreas Hoppe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Scientific disciplines have their own view on catastrophes. Here, natural scientists, engineers, physicians as well as historians and social scientists define and discuss geo-hazards and associated technical disasters, natural disasters as a business case, medicine and its catastrophes. After war aspects of the Shoah are described with Gershom Sholem´s Concept of Jewish Totality, and the situation ... Read more

    $31.49 USD