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This book reports about the results of a Special Symposium “The Baltic Sea Basin”, held on August 11, 2008, within the frame of the 33rd IGC at Oslo, Norway in order to foster the understanding of the Baltic Basin as a unit in terms of genesis, structure, ongoing...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-04-15
Collection :
Central and Eastern European Development Studies (CEEDES)
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An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, 2nd Edition, describes the rapidly developing field of near-surface geophysics. The book covers a range of applications including mineral, hydrocarbon and groundwater exploration, and emphasises the use of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-03-31
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Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damodar’s lower reaches. While the Damodar River isn’t an exceptional...
Editeur :
Springer
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2011-03-29
Collection :
Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and climate development in this region. This book includes the complete plant fossil record from...
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Springer
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2011-03-28
Collection :
Topics in Geobiology
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Humanity’s ever-increasing hunger for mineral raw materials, caused by a growing global population and ever increasing standards of living, has resulted in economic geology becoming a subject of urgent importance. This book provides a broad panorama of mineral...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Humanity’s ever-increasing hunger for mineral raw materials, caused by a growing global population and ever increasing standards of living, has resulted in economic geology becoming a subject of urgent importance. This book provides a broad panorama of mineral...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Berge können auf unterschiedliche Weise entstehen: durch Kollision und Einengung, aber erstaunlicherweise auch durch den gegenteiligen Vorgang, durch Dehnung. Andere finden sich wiederum fernab in Gebieten, in denen schon seit langer Zeit keine tektonischen Bewegungen...
Editeur :
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
Parution :
2011-02-04
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Flood catastrophes which happened world-wide have shown that it is not sufficient to characterize the hazard caused by the natural phenomenon "flood" with the well-known 3M-approach (measuring, mapping and modelling). Due to the recent shift in paradigms from a safety...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-01-04
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This book discusses the geological history of Britain from the early geological formation of the British Isles, through to the variety of currently visible rock formations and ensuing natural landscapes. It is presented as an accessible narrative which may be utilised...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-11-26
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This book contains case histories intended to show how societies and landscapes interact. The range of interest stretches from the small groups of the earliest Neolithic, through Bronze and Iron Age civilizations, to modern nation states. The coexistence is, of its very...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-09
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This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space.
This is a narrative of the Earth's long...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-23
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This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space.
This is a narrative of the Earth's long...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-23
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This book presents a summary of the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains for Earth scientists who may want to work there or who need an overview of the geologic history of this region. In addition, the properties of the East Antarctic ice sheet and of the meteorites...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-09-21
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This series of reference books describes sciences of different elds in and around geodesy with independent chapters. Each chapter covers an individual eld and describes the history, theory, objective, technology, development, highlights of research and applications. In...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-09-09
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Carbonate sediments are of increasing relevance for archives of past environmental conditions and for economical reasons in areas of geothermal energy and hydrocarbon reservoirs. Complex interaction of physical and chemical parameters with biological parameters...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-08-05
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Drawing on ethno-anthropological fieldwork, this book considers issues of identity and belonging in Europe from a consciously emic perspective. The book explores issues such as borders, migration, economic organization, heritage, and the politics and practice of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-28
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Magnetotelluric methods are finding increasing applications for imaging electrically conductive structures below the Earth`s surface in both industrial and academic research. In Models and Methods of Magnetotellurics, the authors provide a systematic approach to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-07-15
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-07-15
Collection :
Advances in Global Change Research
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The purpose of this book is to get a practical understanding of the most common processing techniques in earthquake seismology.The book deals with manual methods and computer assisted methods. Each topic will be introduced with the basic theory followed by practical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-06-16
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Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in the fossil record. This book focuses on the meaning and significance of that archive and is designed for introductory college science students, including non-science majors, enrolled in survey courses...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-04-23
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