ilość książek w kategorii: 32039
Mechanics of Fluid-Saturated Rocks: Volume 89
ISBN: 9780123053558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mechanics of Fluid Saturated Rocks presents a current and comprehensive report on this emerging field that bridges the areas of geology and mechanics. It is of direct interest to a wide spectrum of earth scientists and engineers who are concerned with upper-crust mechanics and fluid movements, the most important fluids being oil and water. This authoritative book is the result of a collaborative effort between scientists in academic institutions and industry. It examines important issues such as subsidence, geological fault formation, earthquake faulting, hydraulic fracturing,...
Mechanics of Fluid Saturated Rocks presents a current and comprehensive report on this emerging field that bridges the areas of geology and mec...
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848,17 zł |
Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia: Variables, Mechanisms, and Model Applications
ISBN: 9780123842459 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 583 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia, serves as a needed resource for this topic which has received much attention during the past 15 years. The book provides an in-depth review of the field, followed by numerouschapters that document the current status of adsorption research for a variety of metals by geomedia ranging from individual minerals to sediments and soils. Adsorption mechanisms are detailed and precipitation is presented as a distinct sorption process.Virtually all factors affecting the extent of metal adsorption are examined, including the effects of selected anions,...
Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia, serves as a needed resource for this topic which has received much attention during the past 15 years. The b...
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1470,42 zł |
The Urban Climate: Volume 28
ISBN: 9780124359604 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create the climatic differences of urbanized areas. Although some of the earlier classical studies are cited here, the emphasis is on the work done during the last decade and a half.
This volume comprises 11 chapters, beginning with an introductory chapter discussing the literature surrounding the... The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric bounda...
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451,33 zł |
Structure and Fate of Subducting Slabs
ISBN: 9780124398603 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is a paperback reprint of Advances in Geophysics, Volume 35 (1994, Academic Press). It provides an overview of the dramatic progress made in illuminating the properties of deep slabs and the surrounding mantle since the introduction of the plate tectonics model to the earth sciences more than 25 years ago. The thermal and chemical characteristics of the subducted lithosphere are determined through thermal and petrological modeling, with seismological observations providing critical constraints on model parameters. Down-wellings of the oceanic lithosphere play a critical role in...
This book is a paperback reprint of Advances in Geophysics, Volume 35 (1994, Academic Press). It provides an overview of the dramatic progress made in...
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451,33 zł |
Historical Seismograms and Earthquakes of the World
ISBN: 9780124408708 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 513 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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451,33 zł |
Water at the Surface of Earth: An Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics
ISBN: 9780124967526 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 557 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Water at the Surface of the Earth: An Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics provides an introduction to the ways in which biological, physical, cultural, and urban systems at the surface of the earth operate, with a particular focus on the hydrodynamics of ecosystems, i.e., water and its association with other forms of matter, including pollutants, and with several forms of energy. The chapter sequence in this book follows the downward progress of water from the lower atmosphere, through ecosystems at the earth's surface, through the soil and mantle rock, to the ""waters under the earth.""...
Water at the Surface of the Earth: An Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics provides an introduction to the ways in which biological, physical, cult...
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259,30 zł |
Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century Volume 60
ISBN: 9780125151757 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century explains this transformation by examining thevarious roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, giving most attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. The electronic digital computer, a product of World War II, led to great advances in empirical, theoretical, and practical meteorology. At the same time, the use of the computer led to the discovery of so-called"chaotic systems,"and to the...
During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in...
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451,33 zł |
Magnetic Stratigraphy: Volume 64
ISBN: 9780125274708 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Magnetic Stratigraphy is the most comprehensive book written in the English language on the subject of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and time scales. This volume presents the entirety of the known geomagneticrecord, which now extends back about 300 million years. The book includes the results of current research on sea floor spreading, magnetic stratigraphy of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and postulations on the Paleozoic. Also included are both historicalbackground and applications of magnetostratigraphy. Individual chapters on correlation are presented, using changes in magnetic...
Magnetic Stratigraphy is the most comprehensive book written in the English language on the subject of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and time ...
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1378,91 zł |
Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling
ISBN: 9780125548205 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 599 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To effectively utilize mesoscale dynamical simulations of the atmosphere, it is necessary to have an understanding the basic physical and mathematical foundations of the models and to have an appreciation of how a particular atmospheric system works. Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling provides such an overview of mesoscale numerical modeling. Starting with fundamental concepts, this text can be used to evaluate the scientific basis of any simulation model that has been or will be developed. Basic material is provided for the beginner as well as more in-depth treatment for the...
To effectively utilize mesoscale dynamical simulations of the atmosphere, it is necessary to have an understanding the basic physical and mathematical...
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579,44 zł |
The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs
ISBN: 9780126151817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the ecology of coral reef fishes presented by top researchers from North America and Australia. Immense strides have been made over the past twenty years in our understanding of ecological systems in general and of reef fish ecology in particular. Many of the methodologies that reef fish ecologists use in their studies will be useful to a wider audience of ecologists for the design of their ecological studies. Significant among the impacts of the research on reef fish ecology are the development of nonequilibrium models of community...
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the ecology of coral reef fishes presented by top researchers from North America and Austr...
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337,16 zł |
Spectral Imaging of the Atmosphere: Volume 82
ISBN: 9780126394818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Optical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds. A bewildering variety of optical instruments have been proposed over the years, making it difficult to decide which instrument should be chosen to make a specific measurement. Spectral Imaging of the Atmosphere traces the historical development of both spectral and imaging methods and places them in a unified framework relevant to observations of the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. The underlying concepts of...
Optical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds. ...
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461,64 zł |
Polar Oceanography: Chemistry, Biology, and Geology
ISBN: 9780126530322 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Polar Oceanography is an integrated synthesis of the biological, physical, geological, and chemical processes that occur in the polar oceans. The book represents the first modern interdisciplinary synthesis of this field.
Polar Oceanography is an integrated synthesis of the biological, physical, geological, and chemical processes that occur in the polar oceans. The book...
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451,33 zł |
Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior: Volume 76
ISBN: 9780126851854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 674 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A group of distinguished scientists contributes to the foundations of a new discipline in Earth sciences: earthquake thermodynamics and thermodynamics of formation of the Earth's interior structures. The predictive powers of thermodynamics are so great that those aspiring to model earthquake and the Earth's interior will certainly wish to be able to use the theory. Thermodynamics is our only method of understanding and predicting the behavior of many environmental, atmospheric, and geological processes. The need for Earth scientists to develop a functional knowledge of thermodynamic concepts...
A group of distinguished scientists contributes to the foundations of a new discipline in Earth sciences: earthquake thermodynamics and thermodynamics...
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982,38 zł |
Statistical Data Analysis for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences: Includes a Data Disk Designed to Be Used as a Minitab File.
ISBN: 9780126869255 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Studies of local and global phenomena generate descriptions which require statistical analysis. In this text, H. Jean Thiebaux presents a succinct yet comprehensive review of the fundamentals of statistics as they pertain to studies in oceanic and atmospheric sciences. The text includes an accompanying disk with compatible Minitab sample data. Together, this volume and the included data provide insights into the basics of statistical inference, data analysis, and distributional models of variability. Oceanographers, meteorologists, marine biologists, and other environmental scientists will...
Studies of local and global phenomena generate descriptions which require statistical analysis. In this text, H. Jean Thiebaux presents a succinct yet...
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451,33 zł |
Ice Microdynamics
ISBN: 9780127346038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Atmospheric ice particles play crucial roles in cloud and storm dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, climatological processes, and other atmospheric processes. Ice Microdynamics introduces the elementary physics and dynamics of atmospheric ice particles in clouds; subsequent sections explain their formation from water vapor, why ice crystal shape and concentration in cirrus clouds influence the heating of air, and describe how ice crystals cleanse the atmosphere by scavenging aerosol particles. Pao Wang's lucid writing style will appeal to atmospheric scientists, climatologists, and...
Atmospheric ice particles play crucial roles in cloud and storm dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, climatological processes, and other atmospheric proce...
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311,17 zł |
The Geography Coloring Book
ISBN: 9780131014725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This unique educational tool introduces learners to the countries of the world and the states of the United States. Through active participation, coloring the maps, users gain a broad understanding of the material--and retain that understanding. Each section begins with a plate containing a political map, a physical map, and regional maps. World Thematic Maps consist of eleven global maps covering climate, rainfall, temperatures, prevailing winds, ocean currents, vegetation, land use, population, racial distribution, languages, and religions--presenting a global... This unique educational tool introduces learners to the countries of the world and the states of the United States. Through active partic... |
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126,37 zł |
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
ISBN: 9780131274686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This third edition of "Reconstructing Quaternary Environments" has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed. The volume concludes with a new chapter which considers some of the key questions... This third edition of "Reconstructing Quaternary Environments" has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and ... |
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311,17 zł |
Principles of Geology
ISBN: 9780140435283 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture
Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to Darwinism, exploring the evidence for radical changes in climate and geography across the ages and speculating on the progressive development of life. A profound influence on Darwin,... One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture
Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) ... |
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76,32 zł |
The Penguin Dictionary of Geology
ISBN: 9780140514940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The science of geology is going through a remarkable period of expansion and advancement. "The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology "contains over 7,500 fully updated definitions, making it the most extensive dictionary of the Earth sciences ever produced. It includes a full bibliography of up-to-date works covering all areas of geology. Authoritative and accessible, this new edition will prove invaluable to researcher, student, and amateur geologist.
The science of geology is going through a remarkable period of expansion and advancement. "The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology "contains over 7,500 ...
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55,97 zł |
The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith
ISBN: 9780143035251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Earthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological mysteries. Attempts to predict them have ranged from studies of California's fault lines by USGS geologists to the work of an odd assortment of psychics and apocalyptics who base their sometimes startlingly accurate forecasts on everything from changes in the earth's magnetic fields to the behavior of whales. The Myth of Solid Ground is a journey, both personal and cultural, through the world of earthquakes and earthquake prediction, one that seeks a middle ground between science and superstition, while also looking for a larger...
Earthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological mysteries. Attempts to predict them have ranged from studies of California's fault lines by USGS ...
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104,58 zł |