| |
The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive.The role of an impactor in the K/T boundary extinctions has had a particularly important influence on thinking concerning the role of impacts in ecological and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-05-18
Collection :
Impact Studies
PDF
|
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-04-06
ePub
|
Mountain ecosystems belong to the most endangered ecosystems in the world. Especially, the treeline ecotone acts as an indicator for environmental change. However, ecological processes in the treeline ecotone are not yet completely understood. The studies provided in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-01-16
PDF
|
Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides, this reference and status report emphasizes the mechanisms of different types of landslides, landslide risk analysis, and sustainable disaster management. It comprises...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-01-16
PDF
|
Tectonic motion of the Adria microplate exerts a first-order control on the tectonics, geology, seismology, resource distribution, and the geological hazards across a broad zone of south-central Europe and the north-central Mediterranean. Since its first application to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-01-05
Collection :
Nato Science Series: IV:
PDF
|
With the increasing need to take an holistic view of landslide hazard and risk, this book overviews the concept of risk research and addresses the sociological and psychological issues resulting from landslides. Its integrated approach offers understanding and ability...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-01-04
PDF
|
Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-11-24
PDF, ePub
|
One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2005-10-27
ePub
|
The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries. This has affected the distribution of plants and the landscape, which can be considered as part of the European cultural landscape. This book...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2004-10-22
PDF
|
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinents frames that controversy by giving all the necessary background on...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-09-16
PDF, ePub
|
|
|
For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves were drifting...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2003-06-26
ePub
|
Stochastic Subsurface Hydrogeology is the study of subsurface, geological heterogeneity, and its effects on flow and transport process, using probabilistic and geostatistical concepts. This book presents a rational, systematic approach for analyzing and modeling...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-03-27
PDF
|
Geology and Health is an integration of papers from geo-bio-chemical scientists on health issues of concern to humankind worldwide, demonstrating how the health and well-being of populations now and in the future can benefit through coordinated scientific efforts....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-03-20
PDF
|
This book presents a quantitative treatment of the theory and natural variations of light stable isotopes. It discusses isotope distribution in the context of fractionation processes, thermodynamics, mass conservation, exchange kinetics, and diffusion theory, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-06-03
PDF
|
This book presents a quantitative treatment of the theory and natural variations of light stable isotopes. It discusses isotope distribution in the context of fractionation processes, thermodynamics, mass conservation, exchange kinetics, and diffusion theory, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-06-03
ePub
|
In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even going so far as to label the theory "unscientific." Some fifty years later, however, continental drift was...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-04-01
PDF
|
This book is the first to detail the chemical changes that occur in deforming materials subjected to unequal compressions. While thermodynamics provides, at the macroscopic level, an excellent means of understanding and predicting the behavior of materials in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-01-21
PDF
|
This comprehensive sourcebook describes the chemical, physical, and mineralogical aspects of fibrous inorganic materials, both synthetic and naturally occurring. A general description of the fibrous state, the range of compounds that can adopt this form, and an overview...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1988-11-03
PDF
|