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Diagenesis affects all sediments after their deposition and includes a fundamental suite of physical, chemical and biological processes that control the texture, mineralogy and fluid-flow properties of sedimentary rocks. Understanding the processes and products of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-03-05
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International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Location-Based Services (LBS) are the delivery of data and information services where the content of those services is tailored to the current location and context of a mobile user. This is a new and fast-growing technology sector incorporating GIS, wireless...
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Wiley
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2009-02-17
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Mastering GIS: Technol, Applications & Mgmnt
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This text integrates a wide range of research and tidal resource theory and data to present a detailed analysis of the physics and oceanography of tidal stream power devices together with a world wide resource analysis. Clearly structured throughout the book is divided...
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Wiley
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2009-02-17
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Soil Erosion and Conservation provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing and implementing soil conservation programmes. Features of the third edition of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-05
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Taking a global perspective, this book provides a concise overview of drylands, including their physical, biological, temporal, and human components. Examines the physical systems occurring in desert environments, including climate, hydrology, past and present lakes,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-28
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Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud. This volume provides a portrait of the planet as experienced not just by scientists, but by artists, aviators, poets,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-26
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Understanding basin-fill evolution and the origin of stratal architectures has traditionally been based on studies of outcrops, well and seismic data, studies of and inferences on qualitative geological processes, and to a lesser extent based on quantitative...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-26
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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Whilst there is now overwhelming evidence that greenhouse-gas pollution is becoming the dominant process responsible for global warming, it is also clear that the climate system varies quite naturally on different time-scales. Predicting the course of future climate...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-26
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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-26
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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This text presents a series of thematic chapters together with chapters on representative groundwater systems in Europe which illustrate the main processes and evolution of water quality. Brings together the research of a consortium of leading European scientists...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-26
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques, from multivariate investigations of biogeography and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-22
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"This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline."
- Roger Keil, co-Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
"The...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-12-19
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Unique in the reference literature, this Companion provides students with an introduction to all the major concepts and contemporary issues in the environmental sciences. The text is divided into six sections (Environmental Sciences, Environments, Paradigms and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-11-18
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Need directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology you’ve dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it. If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy one, GPS For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you compare GPS...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2008-11-17
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Cathodoluminescence microscopy/spectroscopy is a powerful technique providing detailed information on the shock metamorphism of target rocks, biosignatures of meteorites and mineralogy of the pre-solar grains. Moreover, it can be used as an in-situ method to classify...
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Springer
Parution :
2008-11-14
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In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules that he had extracted from ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll--presumably from plants that had lived and died millions of years in the past. It was another twenty-five years before...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-11-05
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One of the most dire consequences of global climate change for coral reefs is the increased frequency and severity of mass coral bleaching events. This volume provides information on the causes and consequences of coral bleaching for coral reef ecosystems, from the...
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Springer
Parution :
2008-10-09
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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
Parution :
2008-09-25
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Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's. Find out more information about the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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