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It took nearly four billion years for the Earth to become a hospitable planet. Archean and Proterozoic Earth traces the geodynamic, biological, climatic and environmental upheavals that accompanied this evolution. This book looks at the planet’s secular cooling and its...
Editeur : Wiley-ISTE
Parution : 2025-10-14
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ISTE Invoiced
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The Himalaya Dilemma: Navigating Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience in Geohazard-Prone Regions is a collaborative effort to explore and understand the multiple dangers the Himalayas face, including landslides, earthquakes, glacial lake outburst floods, terrain...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-10-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book is essential for understanding the Nile Delta, recognized as one of the world's most vulnerable deltas due to population growth and the impacts of sea level rise (SLR). Spanning approximately 38,000 square kilometers, the Nile Delta is the largest delta...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-30
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This book highlights the different ways of seeing and engaging with the natural world and underscores the need to acknowledge and honour the ways that indigenous peoples have done for generations. Mountain regions occupy about one-fourth of the Earth's terrestrial...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The main and first objective of this well-illustrated open access book is to introduce, define and explain common terms and concepts in earthquake and mine seismology. In seismology diverse fields, ranging from mathematics, classical mechanics, geology, rock and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book focuses on cement bond logs (CBL) as a critical tool for ensuring long-term well integrity. It covers key topics such as acoustic fundamentals, factors influencing cement bond and variable density log (CBL/VDL) readings, cement bond logs evaluation, and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-30
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This edited volume is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 3rd MedGU Annual Meeting, Istanbul 2023. With four parts spanning a large spectrum of geological and geophysical topics, this book presents a series of newest research studies that are nowadays...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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As cities swell and the pressure on urban infrastructure intensifies, the concept of the Smart City emerges not merely as an ideal but as a necessity. This groundbreaking volume offers an in-depth, multidisciplinary journey through the evolving landscape of urbanization...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-02
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Clay on Mars, Volume Twelve delves into the latest advancements in the exploration and characterization of Martian clay. Edited by a team of experts, the book compiles contributions from leading researchers in the field. It begins with introductory content, followed by...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2025-09-01
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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There are many books devoted to palaeontology and fossils. However, none have yet dealt with the processes of fossilization, from the formation of the most common fossils to the more exceptional mineralization of animal remains, plants, micro-organisms and even...
Editeur : Wiley-ISTE
Parution : 2025-08-26
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ISTE Invoiced
Format(s) : ePub
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This book provides a conceptual framework, presenting a description and modelling of the regulating mechanisms of supply, demand and supply-demand dynamics, sketches the most relevant classification systems of phosphorus deposits and outlines how they are related and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-08-11
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A comprehensive review of giant salt basins, salt tectonic events, and their global implications Salt is formed when water rich in evaporite minerals accumulates on the Earth’s surface and then evaporates. Over time, pressure and tectonics change the structure and shape...
Editeur : American Geophysical Union
Parution : 2025-08-07
Collection :
Geophysical Monograph Series
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A comprehensive review of salt deposition in sedimentary environments worldwide Salt is formed when water rich in evaporite minerals accumulates on the Earth’s surface and then evaporates. Over time, pressure and tectonics change the structure and shape of salt layers....
Editeur : American Geophysical Union
Parution : 2025-08-06
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Geophysical Monograph Series
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In the Black Sea, an unprecedented intensity of gas discharge of the seabed in the form of jet emissions (gas seeps, torches, flares) and fountains of gas emissions from mud volcanoes have been established, which are described in detail in the monograph. However, the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection, and Management, Second Edition provides a comprehensive exploration of geoheritage, beginning with an introduction to geodiversity and progressing to the characterisation of in situ and ex situ geoheritage, its protection and...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2025-07-25
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
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This book presents the geomorphological diversity of England and Wales. These regions are characterised by an extraordinary range of landforms and landscapes, reflecting both the occurrence of many different rock types and drastic climatic changes over the last few...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-05-10
Collection :
World Geomorphological Landscapes
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Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-10-03
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Telling the story of the four-billion-year history of Earth and life, this book attempts to answer some of our most fundamental questions: how did our Earth come to be? How did the Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and climate form? How did life begin?
Following the timeline...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
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Telling the story of the four-billion-year history of Earth and life, this book attempts to answer some of our most fundamental questions: how did our Earth come to be? How did the Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and climate form? How did life begin?
Following the timeline...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-02
Format(s) : PDF
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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane, one of the most active volcanoes in Japan in terms of persistent release of volatile as volcanic gas and hot springs. The unexpected eruption of Kusatsu-Shirane volcano on January 23, 2018, caused...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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