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Geografia
ilość książek w kategorii: 35024
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Geology of the American Southwest: A Journey Through Two Billion Years of Plate-Tectonic History
ISBN: 9780521816397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Scott Baldridge presents a concise guide to the geology of the Southwestern U.S. Two billion years of Earth history are represented in the rocks and landscape of the Southwest U.S., creating natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, and Death Valley. This region is considered a geologist's "dream," attracting a large number of undergraduate field classes and amateur geologists. The volume will prove invaluable to students and will also appeal to anyone interested in the geology and landscape of the region's National Parks.
Scott Baldridge presents a concise guide to the geology of the Southwestern U.S. Two billion years of Earth history are represented in the rocks and l...
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367,48 |
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Practical Magnetotellurics
ISBN: 9780521817271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The magnetotelluric (MT) method, a technique for probing the electrical conductivity structure of the Earth, is increasingly used both in applied geophysics and in basic research. This book, first published in 2005, goes into detail on practical aspects of applying the MT technique. Beginning with the basic principles of electromagnetic induction in the Earth, this introduction to magnetotellurics aims to guide students and researchers in geophysics and other areas of earth science through the practical aspects of the MT method: from planning a field campaign, through data processing and...
The magnetotelluric (MT) method, a technique for probing the electrical conductivity structure of the Earth, is increasingly used both in applied geop...
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483,24 |
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Making Technology Work: Applications in Energy and the Environment
ISBN: 9780521818575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fifteen interdisciplinary case studies on the application of technology in the energy and environment sectors include applications of solar, wind, fuel cell, nuclear, and other coal combustion and emission control technologies. The case studies reveal the interrelationships among technical and non-technical factors, and demonstrate that the successful application of new technologies requires the synthesis of technical, economic, political, environmental, and social aspects.
Fifteen interdisciplinary case studies on the application of technology in the energy and environment sectors include applications of solar, wind, fue...
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515,66 |
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Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages
ISBN: 9780521819282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reviewing our present concerns about the threat from natural disasters, such as asteroids and immense volcanic eruptions, within the context of history, this volume is written at a level that interests academics as well as general readers. It explains how catastrophic events have influenced the course of evolution in the distant past, and the rise and fall of civilizations in more recent times. Trevor Palmer argues that a better understanding of the past will allow humanity to take appropriate action to preserve civilization for the future.
Reviewing our present concerns about the threat from natural disasters, such as asteroids and immense volcanic eruptions, within the context of histor...
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469,35 |
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Time Series Analysis and Inverse Theory for Geophysicists
ISBN: 9780521819657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Covering spectral analysis as well as inversion of geophysical data, David Gubbins introduces the necessary theory and techniques and then demonstrates how they may be practically applied to interpret various types of geophysical signals, including seismic, magnetic and gravity data. Featuring summary boxes, extensive mathematical and computing exercises (solutions and software available on the Internet), and a set of mathematical appendices, this textbook will prove invaluable to geophysics students and instructors.
Covering spectral analysis as well as inversion of geophysical data, David Gubbins introduces the necessary theory and techniques and then demonstrate...
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585,11 |
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Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary?
ISBN: 9780521820844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This completely updated edition explores in detail the unresolved debate on the existence of weather cycles. It provides a different perspective on one of the most difficult questions in the current global warming debate: how much of the recent temperature rise can be attributed to natural causes? The book examines the complex analysis required to assess the evidence for cycles with a minimum of mathematics. First Edition Hb (1992): 0-521-38178-9 First Edition Pb (1995): 0-521-47869-3
This completely updated edition explores in detail the unresolved debate on the existence of weather cycles. It provides a different perspective on on...
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608,27 |
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Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos
ISBN: 9780521824095 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution and spread of humanity across the globe? By setting our genetic history in the context of climate change during prehistory, the origin of many features of our modern world are identified and presented in this illuminating book. It reviews the aspects of our physiology and intellectual development that have been influenced by climatic factors, and how features of our lives - diet, language and the domestication of animals - are also the product...
How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution ...
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483,24 |
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Early Earthquakes of the Americas
ISBN: 9780521824897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. There is emerging interest among researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history through the discipline of archaeoseismology. This book focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects of those earthquakes, using illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites.
There is emerging interest among researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeo...
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534,18 |
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Deep Earthquakes
ISBN: 9780521828697 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Deep earthquakes (earthquakes with origins deeper than 60 km) are of scientific importance and account for approximately one-quarter of all earthquakes. They are occasionally very large and damaging yet provide much of the data that constrain our knowledge of Earth structure and dynamics. This book opens with an explanation of what deep earthquakes are, their significance to science and how they were first discovered. Later chapters provide a description of deep earthquake distribution and clustering in both time and space; a review of observations about source properties; and a discussion of...
Deep earthquakes (earthquakes with origins deeper than 60 km) are of scientific importance and account for approximately one-quarter of all earthquake...
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751,81 |
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Sounds in the Sea: From Ocean Acoustics to Acoustical Oceanography
ISBN: 9780521829502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first portion of this comprehensive textbook on ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography introduces the basic tools used to determine the detailed characteristics of physical and biological bodies and processes at sea. Written by many internationally recognized ocean researchers, the following fifteen chapters describe modern research developments. This invaluable textbook for students in oceanography, engineering, and physics will also serve as a reference for researchers and professionals.
The first portion of this comprehensive textbook on ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography introduces the basic tools used to determine the detai...
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612,90 |
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Quantitative Thermochronology: Numerical Methods for the Interpretation of Thermochronological Data
ISBN: 9780521830577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Thermochronology, the study of the thermal history of rocks, enables us to quantify the nature and timing of tectonic processes. First published in 2006, Quantitative Thermochronology is a robust review of isotopic ages, and presents a range of numerical modeling techniques to allow the physical implications of isotopic age data to be explored. The authors provide analytical, semi-analytical and numerical solutions to the heat transfer equation in a range of tectonic settings and under varying boundary conditions. They then illustrate their modeling approach built around a large number of...
Thermochronology, the study of the thermal history of rocks, enables us to quantify the nature and timing of tectonic processes. First published in 20...
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534,18 |
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The Cretaceous World
ISBN: 9780521831123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This textbook on the Cretaceous era explores the interactions between the physical, chemical and biological processes operating within, and at the surface of, the Earth during this extreme period in history. Characterized by high atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warmth, the Cretaceous era is very relevant to future climatic change studies. Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses, the text includes chapter summaries, focus boxes, and Questions and Answers throughout. It is supported by a website hosting sample pages, selected illustrations, and exercises.
This textbook on the Cretaceous era explores the interactions between the physical, chemical and biological processes operating within, and at the sur...
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608,27 |
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Multiple Scattering of Light by Particles: Radiative Transfer and Coherent Backscattering
ISBN: 9780521834902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume provides a thorough treatment of multiple scattering of light and other electromagnetic radiation in media composed of randomly and sparsely positioned particles. It systematically and consistently presents radiative transfer theory as a branch of classical macroscopic electromagnetics. After tracing the fundamental link between radiative transfer theory and the effect of coherent backscattering, the authors explain them in the context of a comprehensive hierarchy of electromagnetic scattering problems. Dedicated sections present a thorough discussion of the physical meaning and...
This volume provides a thorough treatment of multiple scattering of light and other electromagnetic radiation in media composed of randomly and sparse...
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737,92 |
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The Turbulent Ocean
ISBN: 9780521835435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The subject of ocean turbulence is in a state of discovery and development with many intellectual challenges. This book describes the principal dynamic processes that control the distribution of turbulence, its dissipation of kinetic energy and its effects on the dispersion of properties such as heat, salinity, and dissolved or suspended matter in the deep ocean, the shallow coastal and the continental shelf seas. It focuses on the measurement of turbulence, and the consequences of turbulent motion in the oceanic boundary layers at the sea surface and near the seabed. Processes are...
The subject of ocean turbulence is in a state of discovery and development with many intellectual challenges. This book describes the principal dynami...
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390,63 |
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Quantitative Textural Measurements in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
ISBN: 9780521847827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Processes involved in the development of igneous and metamorphic rocks involve some combination of crystal growth, solution, movement and deformation, which is expressed as changes in texture (microstructure). Advances in the quantification of aspects of crystalline rock textures, such as crystal size, shape, orientation and position, have opened fresh avenues of research that extend and complement the more dominant chemical and isotopic studies. This book discusses the aspects of petrological theory necessary to understand the development of crystalline rock texture. It develops the...
Processes involved in the development of igneous and metamorphic rocks involve some combination of crystal growth, solution, movement and deformation,...
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557,33 |
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Electron Microprobe Analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopy in Geology
ISBN: 9780521848756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Originally published in 2005, this book covers the closely related techniques of electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) specifically from a geological viewpoint. Topics discussed include: principles of electron-target interactions, electron beam instrumentation, X-ray spectrometry, general principles of SEM image formation, production of X-ray 'maps' showing elemental distributions, procedures for qualitative and quantitative X-ray analysis (both energy-dispersive and wavelength-dispersive), the use of both 'true' electron microprobes and SEMs fitted with...
Originally published in 2005, this book covers the closely related techniques of electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) and scanning electron microscopy ...
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cena:
381,37 |
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Predictability of Weather and Climate
ISBN: 9780521848824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 718 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The topic of predictability in weather and climate has advanced significantly in recent years, both in understanding the phenomena that affect weather and climate and in techniques used to model and forecast them. This book, first published in 2006, brings together some of the world's leading experts on predicting weather and climate. It addresses predictability from the theoretical to the practical, on timescales from days to decades. Topics such as the predictability of weather phenomena, coupled ocean-atmosphere systems and anthropogenic climate change are among those included. Ensemble...
The topic of predictability in weather and climate has advanced significantly in recent years, both in understanding the phenomena that affect weather...
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825,90 |
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New Theory of the Earth
ISBN: 9780521849593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. New Theory of the Earth is an interdisciplinary advanced textbook on the origin, composition, and evolution of the Earth's interior: geophysics, geochemistry, dynamics, convection, mineralogy, volcanism, energetics and thermal history. This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth processes which ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines. It is a complete update of Anderson's Theory of the Earth (1989). It includes many new sections and dozens of new figures and tables. As with the original book, this new edition will prove to be a stimulating textbook on advanced...
New Theory of the Earth is an interdisciplinary advanced textbook on the origin, composition, and evolution of the Earth's interior: geophysics, geoch...
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335,07 |
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Precipitation: Theory, Measurement and Distribution
ISBN: 9780521851176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Precipitation plays a significant role in the climate system, and this book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the processes involved in the generation of clouds, rain, snow and hail; how precipitation is measured; how its distribution has changed over time; and how we still need to make improvements to the way precipitation is measured. It traces our attempts to understand what clouds are, from ancient Greeks to the present day. It also discusses developments in the measurement of precipitation, from rain gauges to satellite techniques, and how these measurements have...
Precipitation plays a significant role in the climate system, and this book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the processes invol...
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534,18 |
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The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, Diversity and Change
ISBN: 9780521853026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This 2007 book reviews the history of geomorphological studies of the Great Barrier Reef and assesses the influences of sea-level change and oceanographic processes on the development of reefs over the last 10,000 years. It presents analyses of recently attained data from the Great Barrier Reef and reconstructions of the sequence of events which have led to its more recent geomorphology. The authors emphasise the importance of the geomorphological time span and its applications for present management applications. This is a valuable reference for academic researchers in geomorphology and...
This 2007 book reviews the history of geomorphological studies of the Great Barrier Reef and assesses the influences of sea-level change and oceanogra...
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483,24 |
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