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Quartz is the major porosity-reducing cement in many sandstone sequences. Therefore,Quartz cements represent a key source of petrographic and geochemical information about diagenetic history. They are also the major determinant of sandstone reservoir quality. While the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-09-18
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International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Springer
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2009-09-18
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Climatologists with an eye on the past have any number of sources for their work, from personal diaries to weather station reports. Piecing together the trajectory of a weather event can thus be a painstaking process taking years and involving real detective work....
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Springer
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2009-09-18
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This book addresses the fundamental requirement for an interdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing and protecting water resources that crucially includes an understanding of land use and its management. In this approach the hydrological cycle links...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-11
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What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign?What clues will we leave?What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long dead, so too might...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-09-10
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Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-08
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Um zuverlässig einschätzen zu können, welche ökologische Wertigkeit ein Fließgewässer hat, ist eine fundierte, ganzheitliche Bewertung nötig. Wie das geht, zeigt das Handbuch anschaulich für die Fließgewässer der norddeutschen Tiefebene. Es beschreibt präzise, worauf...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2009-08-18
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South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude regions. It thus offers a unique opportunity to explore past climate variability along a latitudinal transect from the Equator to Polar regions and to...
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Springer
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2009-08-04
Collection :
Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research
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This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine. It is a well-illustrated book that integrates existing and new information, starting with the first farmers and ending when food production...
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Springer
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2009-07-29
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From AMETHYST to ARTESIAN SPRING, from COAL GAS to CONTINENTAL DRIFT, from SEISMOGRAM to STROMATOLITE, the Encylopedia of the Solid Earth Sciences provides a comprehensive modern reference text for all the subdisciplines of the Earth Sciences. The Encyclopedia is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-17
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Carbonate rocks (limestones and dolomites) constitute a major part of the geological column and contain not only 60% of the world's known hydrocarbons but also host extensive mineral deposits. This book represents the first major review of carbonate sedimentology since...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-17
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This new text sets out to establish the key role played by systematics in deciphering patterns of evolution from the fossil record. It begins by considering the nature of the species in the fossil record and then outlines recent advances in the methodology used to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-15
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Low-Grade Metamorphism explores processes and transformations in rocks during the early stages of metamorphic recrystallization. There has been little analysis and documentation of this widespread phenomenon, especially of the substantial and exciting advances that have...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-15
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Petroleum is not as easy to find as it used to be. In order to locate and develop reserves efficiently, it's vital that geologists and geophysicists understand the geological processes that affect a reservoir rock and the oil that is trapped within it. This book is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-10
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Geographic Information Systems are an essential tool for analyzing and representing quantitative spatial data. Qualitative GIS explains the recent integration of qualitative research with Geographical Information Systems
With a detailed contextualising introduction,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-07-09
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Palaeomagnetism, plates, hot spots, trenches and ridges are the subject of this unusual book. Plate Tectonics is a book of exercises and background information that introduces and demonstrates the basics of the subject. In a lively and lucid manner, it brings together a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-08
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Since the 3rd edition of this publication, emphasis within the petroleum industry has shifted from exploration to appraisal and development of existing hydrocarbon resources. This change is reflected in this new 4th edition, which has been significantly expanded to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-06-29
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Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-06-26
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The new Second Edition of Glacial Geology provides a modern, comprehensive summary of glacial geology and geomorphology. It is has been thoroughly revised and updated from the original First Edition. This book will appeal to all students interested in the landforms and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2009-06-10
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Spatial Modeling Principles in Earth Sciences presents fundamentals of spatial data analysis used in hydrology, geology, meteorology, atmospheric science and related fields. It examines methods for the quantitative determination of the spatial distribution patterns....
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Springer
Parution :
2009-06-10
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