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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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-04-06
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International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Studies of aeolian sediments, both ancient and modern, have exhibited a number of important conceptual advances in recent years. In particular, there has been a move away from descriptions of sediments, bedforms and sedimentary environments toward a new emphasis on the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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The last decade of study of the shallow-marine boundary layer has arrived at a synthesis of sediment dynamic principles that can begin to be transferred from the time scales of the rock record (years to millenia). At the same time, the technology of petroleum...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This publication consists of papers delivered at an International Symposium of the International Association of Sedimentologists held at Beijing, Peoples' Republic of China in August, 1988. The theme of the symposium was sedimentology related to mineral deposits and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-03
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Sedimentology Review is a new series of books edited by the Postgraduate Research Institute ofSedimentology (PRIS) and published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. The series provides the practicing sedimentologist with a means of rapidly accessing new developments...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-03
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This book considers the deposition of sediments in different types of lakes and shows how changes in the lake environment can be interpreted from the sediment facies at the lake floor. Lakes are particularly sensitive to climate change and thus their sediments are...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-03
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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The latest edition of this highly successful and popular textbook has been completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in biogeography. It offers excellent insight into the multi-disciplinary nature of biogeography, providing ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-03
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This IAS Special Publication contains 23 papers presented at the 3rd International Research Symposium on Modern and Ancient Clastic Tidal Deposits.This symposium series has an enviable international reputation for its quality, and so the contributions represent the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-01
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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This book provides a sound introduction to the basic physical processes that dominate the workings of the Earth, its atmosphere and hydrosphere. It systematically introduces the physical processes involved in the Earth’s systems without assuming an advanced physics or...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-01
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Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes is the first senior undergraduate – postgraduate textbook to focus specifically on the multiplicity of geological processes that result in the formation of mineral deposits. Opens with an overview of magmatic ore-forming...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-01
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Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial rivers and floodplains, how they vary in time and space, and how this information is used to interpret deposits of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-01
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Sedimentology is a core discipline of earth and environmental sciences. It enquires the origins, transport and deposition of mineral sediment on the Earth's surface. The subject is a link between positive effects arising from the building of relief by tectonics and the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-01
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Britain, Ireland and their surrounding areas have a remarkably varied geology for so small a fragment of continental crust. This region contains a fine rock record from all the geological periods from Quaternary back to Cambrian, and a less continuous but still...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-01
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Life on Earth has been evolving and interacting with the surface and atmosphere for almost four billion years. Fossils provide a powerful tool in the study of the Earth and its history. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies and contribute to our...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-01
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This Special Publication contains most of the contributions presented at the 1st International Workshop on Fan Deltas (1988) but also contains additional papers which make this particular volume a very well-rounded reference source for the advanced...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global warming. Written in an accessible style, this important book examines the processes of climate change and climate stability, from the distant past ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
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This highly accessible introduction to dinosaurs places scientific method at the crux of the studies, teaching students about scientific research and principles as they learn about dinosaurs. Now in its second edition, the text includes updates on ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
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This new, up dated edition of Introduction to Mineral Exploration provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of mineral exploration. Covers not only the nature of mineral exploration but also considers other factors essential to successful ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-03-23
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Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-23
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-23
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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