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This book combines, for the first time, the topics of radar polarimetry and interferometry.This combination was first developed in 1997 and has since become a major topic in radar sciences and their applications, in particular to space sciences. In its simplest form it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-01
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Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every...
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Springer
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2009-09-25
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-18
Collection :
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
Parution :
2009-09-18
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Tracers in Hydrology and Water Research is a comprehensive overview of the application of natural and artificial tracers in hydrology and environmental research. Taking a unique approach by providing the reader with a systematic and state of the art description of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2009-09-15
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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
Parution :
2009-09-10
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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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Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies, and contribute to our understanding of the extinction of organisms and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-08-06
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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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Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level. This fully revised fourth edition includes a complete update of the sections on evolution and the fossil record, and the evolution of the early...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-17
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Sedimentary Environments is one of the most distinguished and influential textbooks in the earth sciences published in the last 20 years. The first and second editions both won universal praise and became classic works in sedimentology. Since the publication of the last...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-15
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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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Much new data and many new ideas have emerged in the area of ore geology and industrial minerals since publication of the second edition of this text in 1987. The overriding philosophy behind this new edition is the inclusion and integration of this new material within...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-10
Collection :
Geoscience Texts
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-10
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