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  • Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

    A State-of-Art

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen ... Leer más

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  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Leer más

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  • Volcanoes - Why Do They Happen?

    Volcanoes for Kids

    Series series Children's Earthquake & Volcano Books
    Why do volcanoes go "ka-boom!"? This unique approach to vulcanology is highly inspiring to young children. The use of carefully selected images only help in driving home certain points of discussion. This is a picture book that your child will definitely love and learn the most from. Don't forget to grab a copy today! ... Leer más

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  • Extreme Weather Systems : 3rd Grade Geography Series

    Third Grade Books - Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    Series series Children's Weather Books
    What is the weather today? Learning about the different weather systems will benefit many areas of life. It will help a child anticipate conditions for the rest of the days so clothes are adjusted, as well as plans. This book offers pictures more than descriptions so learning is very visual and therefore, highly effective. Secure a copy of this book today! ... Leer más

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  • Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

    From Heresy to Truth

    de James Powell ...
    Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific—and sometimes religious—heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to ... Leer más

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  • Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This pioneering book addresses the entirety of river flooding issues in the Upper Vistula Basin, where considerable flood generation potential exists. It analyses the factors influencing flood risk, investigates variations in observation records and discusses projections for the future and adaptation to changing risk. It serves the general interest in understanding the floods that cause massive ... Leer más

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  • Geomorphological impacts of extreme weather

    Case studies from central and eastern Europe

    Edición de Denes Loczy ...
    Series series Springer Geography
    This book presents new research on the geomorphological impacts of extreme precipitation events. It focuses on the extreme summer floods, which affected Central and Eastern Europe in 2010. Case studies on their consequences, including inundations, urban flooding, soil erosion, river bank retreat, alluvial fan accumulation, evolution of karst depressions, debris flows, landslides and soil ... Leer más

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  • Sand and Gravel Spits

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book draws together a series of studies of spit geomorphology and temporal evolution from around the world. The volume offers some unique insights into how these landforms are examined scientifically and how we as humans impact them, offering a global perspective on spit genesis and evolution.Spits are unique natural environments whose evolution is linked to the adjacent coast and near shore ... Leer más

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  • Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans

    Edición de DanLing Tang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans is a comprehensive account of the basic concepts, theories, methods and applications used in ocean satellite remote sensing. The book provides a synthesis of various new ideas and theories and discusses a series of key research topics in oceanic manifestation of global changes as viewed from space. A variety of research methods used in the analysis and ... Leer más

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  • Storm-triggered Landslides in Warmer Climates

    de Diandong Ren ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach – as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach. In addition, this volume will systematically unify the concepts of vadose zone hydrology and geotechnical engineering, with special emphasis ... Leer más

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  • Ecological Responses at Mount St. Helens: Revisited 35 years after the 1980 Eruption

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book builds on existing work exploring succession, disturbance ecology, and the interface between geophysical and biological systems in the aftermath of the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens. The eruption was dramatic both in the spatial extent of impacts and the range of volcanic disturbance types and intensities. Complex geophysical forces created unparalleled opportunities to study ... Leer más

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  • Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Vietnam

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces. The methodology used to develop the scientific basis and the societal agreement of the need to adapt to climate change is applicable also to other regions in Vietnam, Asia and worldwide.The uncertainties of climate change models make it difficult ... Leer más

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