Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “wayne d ranney”
Skip side bar filters

  • Ancient Landscapes of Western North America

    A Geologic History with Paleogeographic Maps

    by Ronald C. Blakey, Wayne D. Ranney ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas’ shores creating mountains and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Volcanoes, Earthquakes And Tsunamis: Teach Yourself

    by David Rothery ...
    Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis is the essential guide to what causes the most frightening geological events with which we are faced today. It covers plate tectonics, the intricacies of each terrible phenomina, and their effects as well as the impact they have on each other, how they can be predicted and, if possible, controlled.NOT GOT MUCH TIME?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Pyrite

    A Natural History of Fool's Gold

    by David Rickard ...
    Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral sometimes known as fool's gold. Pyrite behaves like stone and shines like metal, and its dual nature makes it a source of both metals and sulfur. Despite being the most common sulfide mineral on the earth's surface, pyrite's bright crystals have attracted the attention of many different cultures, and its nearly identical visual appearance ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Global Positioning System

    Theory and Practice

    by Herbert Lichtenegger, Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, James Collins ...
    This book is dedicated to Dr. Benjamin William Remondi for many reasons. The project of writing a Global Positioning System (GPS) book was con ceived in April 1988 at a GPS meeting in Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Remondi discussed with me the need for an additional GPS textbook and suggested a possible joint effort. In 1989, I was willing to commit myself to such a project. Unfortunately, the timing ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Eurocode-Compliant Seismic Analysis and Design of R/C Buildings

    Concepts, Commentary and Worked Examples with Flowcharts

    by Ioannis Avramidis, Konstantinos Morfidis, Anastasios Sextos, Agathoklis Giaralis, A. Athanatopoulou ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book aims to serve as an essential reference to facilitate civil engineers involved in the design of new conventional (ordinary) reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings regulatedby the current European EC8 (EN 1998-1:2004) and EC2 (EN 1992-1-1:2004) codesof practice. The book provides unique step-by-step flowcharts which take the readerthrough all the required operations, calculations, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Natural and Societal Challenges of the Northern Sea Route

    A Reference Work

    Edited by Willy Østreng ...
    Yohei Sasakawa The Northern Sea Route is the shortest shipping route connecting the Far East and Europe. However, the route has been practically inaccessible to commercial vessels, due to the harsh natural conditions in the area, which make navigation possible for only a small part of the year, and then only with an icebreaker leading the way. Opening the Northern Sea Route would greatly ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Statistical Evaluations in Exploration for Mineral Deposits

    Translated by D. Large ...
    by Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Statistical evaluations of exploration data are the basis for decisions to be made at various stages of an exploration project. In contrast to other geostatistical books, Statistical Evaluations in Exploration for Mineral Deposits focuses not only on theory, but examples are also given, frequently originating from experience in mineral exploration by the author who worked worldwide for a mining ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Climate Change and Water Resources

    Edited by Tamim Younos, Caitlin A. Grady ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume presents nine chapters prepared by international authors and highlighting various aspects of climate change and water resources. Climate change models and scenarios, particularly those related to precipitation projection, are discussed and uncertainties and data deficiencies that affect the reliability of predictions are identified. The potential impacts of climate change on water ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Physical Geology

    by Sreepat Jain ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Physical Geology is a vast subject and it is not possible to cover all aspects in one book. This book does not invent the wheel but merely put together sets of updated but concise material on Physical Geology with lots of illustrations. All illustrations are created by hand and give a real classroom feel to the book. Students or readers can easily reproduce them by hand. This is a book, where a ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Earth's Inner Core

    Revealed by Observational Seismology

    by Hrvoje Tkalčić ...
    The inner core is a planet within a planet: a hot sphere with a mass of one hundred quintillion tons of iron and nickel that lies more than 5000 kilometres beneath our feet. It plays a crucial role in driving outer core fluid motion and the geodynamo, which generates the Earth's magnetic field. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive review of past and contemporary research on the Earth ... Read more

    $85.29 USD

  • Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils

    A Multidisciplinary Approach to Innovative Methods

    Edited by Alessandro Piccolo ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This compilation of techniques, methodologies and scientific data arises from a four-year Italian research project, which took place at university research stations in Turin, Piacenza, Naples and Potenza. Soil Organic Matter (SOM) represents an active and essential pool of the total organic carbon on the planet. Consequently, even small changes in this SOM carbon pool may have a significant impact ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Mantle Convection for Geologists

    by Geoffrey F. Davies ...
    Mantle convection is the fundamental agent driving many of the geological features observed at the Earth's surface, including plate tectonics and plume volcanism. Yet many Earth scientists have an incomplete understanding of the process. This book describes the physics and fluid dynamics of mantle convection, explaining what it is, how it works, and how to quantify it in simple terms. It assumes ... Read more

    $54.19 USD