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This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
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"A comprehensive reader for my political geography course. Good summaries at the end, and articles include effective case study examples."
- Rachel Paul, Western Washington University
"A very useful and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in political geography....
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-04-22
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Most of the thirty-four papers contained in this Special Publication arise from the Fourth International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology held in Spain in 1989. Sections deal with various aspects of sediment transport and hydraulics in flume experiments and modern...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This third volume in the IAS Reprint Series reviews some of the major contributions that have been made over the last twenty years to our understanding of deep water environments. Few groups of rocks have received as much attention in recent years as deep sea sands and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Calcretes are an important component of many ancient fluvial, lacustrine and shallow-marine carbonate sequences, and they are widely developed in many parts of the world at the present time.Calcretes are useful to the earth scientist involved in reconstructing ancient...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Over the years, many papers on carbonate diagenesis have been published in Sedimentology, the journal of the International Association of Sedimentologists. This volume presents a collection of these papers with a commentary. The emphasis of the book is on the diagenesis...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973. The aim of the symposium was to bring together sea-borne researchers involved with the Deep Sea Drilling Project and land-locked...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This IAS Special Publication #27 contains 17 of the papers presented at the IAS International Workshop on Reefs and Carbonate platforms in the Pacific and Indian oceans held in Sydney (July 1995).This is the first book to summarize the current state of knowledge about...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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A book of research articles focused on fluvial processesThe book is divided into a several main sections for ease of reference: Hydrodynamics and Bedforms; Present?Day Channel Processes; Facies Models; and Economic Aspects. Geographical and geological investigations are...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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The recent increase in the search for coal has initiated a dramatic growth in sedimentological research on the origin, formation and environment of coal deposition. This publication is concerned with perhaps the most important field of coal research, that of coal...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This volume also discusses the computer modelling of carbonate cycles and sequence analysis.This will prove an invaluable text for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in the earth sciences in general and will also be of value to the professional researcher....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Over the last ten years, seismic and sequence stratigraphic studies have emphasized the role of worldwide fluctuations in sea level in controlling patterns of sedimentation. Widely recognized cycles of coastal onlap are thought to have been caused by such global...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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In recent years there has been a virtual explosion of stratigraphic studies utilizing the principles of sequence stratigraphy. Although the concept of time stratigraphy is not new, the packaging of depositional units into systems tracts and sequences is. This new...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Carbonate cements are very common and abundant in clastic sequences. They profoundly influence the quality of hydrocarbon reservoirs and supply important information on palaeoenvironments and the chemical composition and flow patterns of fluids in sedimentary basins....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This volume contains 23 state-of-the-art papers presented at the Dolomieu Conference on Carbonate Platforms and Dolomitization held in September 1991 in Ortisei, Italy. The conference was co-sponsored by the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) and the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology provides an invaluable overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of archaeological sites and contexts. Taking a pragmatic and functional approach, this book presents: a fundamental, broad-based...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-13
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This is the first book to investigate the structure, origin and evolution of carbonate mud-mounds. Mud-mounds are accumulations of biogenic carbonate sediment that are common in the geological record, and economically important as they host lead zinc mineralization and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-13
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Stratigraphers and sedimentologists who are presently describing and interpreting the infill of sedimentary basins are generally agreed that it is difficult to disentangle the signatures of tectonic processes from those of climate and eustatic sea level change in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-13
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This book celebrates the professional career of Harold Reading, who has played a leading role in the development of the IAS, and has been at the roots of the development of 'facies sedimentology' as an art in itself and as a major tool in the broader field of geology....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-13
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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