Geology & the lithosphere books

Geomechanics is the basic science for many engineering fields, including oil and gas recovery, mining, civil engineering,...  Read More >>

Focuses on the geology, land use history, palaeoecology, ecology and conservation of peatlands (fens and bogs) in...  Read More >>

Written by soil scientists and ecologists, this book reviews how and why plants influence soils. It includes topics...  Read More >>

, USA Background and Motivation The basic notion of artificial neural networks (ANNs), as we understand them today,...  Read More >>

This publication deals with soil erosion and sedimentation. The quest for alternative techniques for assessing soil...  Read More >>

Subjects covered are radioactive waste disposal, trace metals, soil quality and productivity, pesticides, landfill,...  Read More >>

Arid and semi-arid regions can be defined as environments in which water is the limit­ ing factor for bio-systems....  Read More >>

Biotechnology offers a `natural' way of addressing environmental problems, ranging from identification of biohazards...  Read More >>

This text discusses the techniques of gold mining and metallurgy, the socio-economic importance of gold as coinage...  Read More >>

Details the classical theory of poroelasticity developed by Biot and extends it to the study of problems in geomechanics,...  Read More >>

Environmental Hydrology presents a unified approach to the role of hydrology in environmental planning and management,...  Read More >>

This volume is concerned with the basic problems of the theory of thermoelasticity for three models of continuous...  Read More >>

The archaeological geology of the Quaternary or the geological epoch during which humankind evolved is a scientific...  Read More >>

Addresses two main areas of offshore activity: Site investigation on assessment; and Applications and foundation...  Read More >>

Books published during recent years in the field of applied geo­ physics can be, in general, divided into two main...  Read More >>

"Authors are very well known researchers who pioneered percolation modelling of transport in porous media in Russia...  Read More >>

The processes of the development of oil and gas deposits are of primary importance in the whole technological chain...  Read More >>

Some 35 years ago I was somewhat precariously balanced in a drilling derrick aligning a whipstock into a directional...  Read More >>

This is an updated version of the program, and the documentation supplied with this version supersedes the information...  Read More >>

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This book describes essential scientific concepts and tools for hydrologists and public health ecologists concerned...  Read More >>

They protect against UV-irradation, enable indirect photolysis and, thus, purify hazardous chemicals, they provide...  Read More >>

Focusing on the subject of magmatic sulfide deposits, this book provides an overview of deposit types. It presents...  Read More >>

This book contains selected contributions from the Sixth Meeting of the International Geographical Union's Commission...  Read More >>