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As it has grown in length and level through successive edtions, the same author's Introduction to Ore Geology (now Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals) has left behind its original audience: first- and second -ear students. This new textbook, designed to fill that niche...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-27
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Earth Surface Processes is an introductory text for those studying the dynamics of fluid and sediment transport in the environments, in the context of both present-day patterns as well as the environmental changes decipherable in the geological record. The book is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-27
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Sedimentology has seen many significant advances and changes over the past 40 years, ranging from facies modelling to sequence stratigraphy; chemostratigraphy to basin analysis; and the integration of studies of physical, chemical and, increasingly, biological processes...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-11
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This volume explores the climates, landscapes, ecosystems and hazards that comprise the Mediterranean world. It traces the development of the Mediterranean landscape over very long timescales and examines modern processes and key environmental issues in a wide range of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-05-07
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This volume explores the climates, landscapes, ecosystems and hazards that comprise the Mediterranean world. It traces the development of the Mediterranean landscape over very long timescales and examines modern processes and key environmental issues in a wide range of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-05-07
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Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the earliest hominin...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-06
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Laser Scanning for the Environmental Sciences 3D surface representation has long been a source of information describing surface character and facilitating an understanding of system dynamics from micro-scale (e.g. sand transport) to macro-scale (e.g. drainage channel...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-06
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A detailed investigation of Phosphatocopina Fossils and Strata, Number 49: Morphology, Ontogeny, and Phylogeny of the Phosphatocopina (Crustacea) from the Upper Cambrian Orsten of Sweden presents a detailed look at Phosphatocopina through the rigorous lens of modern...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-06
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Fossils and Strata Monograph Series
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At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife?...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-05-01
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The study of palaeoweathering provides vital clues about past continental environments, the correlation of sedimentary deposits and processes such as the rate and timing of uplift and erosion. This volume (based partly on research presented at IGCP 317 Palaeoweathering...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This book provides a practical guide to the basic essentials of earthquake engineering with a focus on seismic loading and structural design. Benefiting from the author’s extensive career in structural and earthquake engineering, dynamic analysis and lecturing, it is...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-04-29
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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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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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