Geologia i geografia

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Written for students who need help doing their coursework and exams, this book focuses mainly on the skills and techniques that apply to essay writing, but also covers other types of assignment such as posters, talks, PowerPoint^DTM presentations and web pages. Its basis is that all of these differe...

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

Geographic Information Analysis, Second Edition is fully updated to keep pace with the most recent developments of spatial analysis in a geographic information systems (GIS) environment. Still focusing on the universal aspects of this science, this revised edition includes new coverage on geovisuali...

Wydawnictwo: Technip

Provides the respective contribution of downhole logging techniques and borehole seismic surveying resulting in improved understanding of reservoirs.

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics II comprises the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG), organised by the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS) and held at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth from 8 – 10 November 20...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

This book gives an overview of the world’s literature on analytical data and theoretical concepts of the regularities of rare earth elements (REE) in ultramafic and mafic rocks of different chemical and mineral compositions – mantle restites (including those composing mantle xenoliths in...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Uniquely devoted to hard and fractured rock hydraulics, this advanced-level introduction provides tools to solve practical engineering problems. Chapter I covers the fundamentals of fractured rock hydraulics under a tensor approach. Chapter II presents some key concepts about approximate solutions. ...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

When dealing with rock in civil engineering, mining engineering and other engineering, the process by which the rock fails under load should be understood, so that safe structures can be built on and in the rock. However, there are many ways for loading rock and rock can have a variety of idiosyncra...

Wydawnictwo: Taylor & Francis

Geomicrobiology is a combination of geology and microbiology, and includes the study of interaction of microorganisms with their environment, such as in sedimentary rocks. This is a new and rapidly-developing field that has led in the past decade to a radically-revised view of the diversity and acti...

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

Mesoscale Meteorology in Mid-Latitudes presents the dynamics of mesoscale meteorological phenomena in a highly accessible, student-friendly manner. The book's clear mathematical treatments are complimented by high-quality photographs and illustrations. Comprehensive coverage of subjects including bo...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focussed on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. It is not enough only to understand the anatomy of the structure, you must also appreciate the nature of th...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Volcanic Rock Mechanics includes papers and special lectures from the 3rd International Workshop on Volcanic Rocks, "Rock Mechanics and Geo-Engineering in Volcanic Environments", which was held within the framework of the Congress "Cities on Volcanoes6-Tenerife 2010" (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Sp...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

Introduction to Process Geomorphology provides an integrative approach to the process dynamics and the origin of landforms by the contemporary processes involved in their evolution. The author highlights the physical and chemical laws governing the activity of the earth-surface processes in specific...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

Designed to be useful even after students have completed their formal optical mineralogy course, Optical Mineralogy covers advances in instrumentation and includes illustrations of minerals as seen through petrologival microscopes. The initial chapters familiarize readers with essential concepts in ...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

Historically, cost effective, reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly, use of geothermal energy has been limited to areas where obvious surface features pointed to the presence of a shallow local heat source, such as hot springs and volcanoes. However, recent technological advances have ...

Wydawnictwo: Freeman WH

The field of physical geology continues to evolve with new tools, new ideas new approaches. Working closely with Frank Press and Ray Siever, the new co-authors of the fourth edition, John Grotzinger and Tom Jordan, have introduced a wealth of more recent data and applications to keep the science in ...

Wydawnictwo: McGraw-Hill

This market-leading book introduces college students to the breadth and spatial insights of the field of geography. The authors' approach allows the major research traditions of geography to dictate the principal themes. Chapter 1 introduces students to the four organizing traditions that have emerg...

Wydawnictwo: BS Publication

Any pathway for economic progress has to be both knowledge-driven, and job-led. Waters, soils and minerals constitute the most significant natural resources. Their use did provide immense benefits to the community, but there is a flip side to the picture in the form of severe environmental degradati...

Wydawnictwo: BS Publication

Space science and technology has grown multifold globally and Indian contribution to its growth over the years has been very significant. Further, its contribution in the domain of use of space derived data to a variety of Applications has also grown multifold, ever since the launch of IRS series of...

Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press

The book discusses the concept of sustanable development specifically with regard to water resources management and environmental challenges therein. Sustainable development is studied from the perspective of its applicability to a heterogeneous world. This volume raises questions for the developmen...

Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press

This is an introdutory physical geography text designed for 1st or 2nd year undergraduate students of Geography, Geology and Environmental Sciences. A four colour text with a massive visual program that includes nearly 300 colour photgraphs, 300 line drawings and numerous maps and tables.

Wydawnictwo: Taylor & Francis

"Just do an Internet search." "It's on the Internet". These phrases have quickly become a part of the vernacular. The quintessential book of data relating to water, "The Water Encyclopedia: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources, Third Edition" arose from the premise that most of the information pro...

Wydawnictwo: Barron's Educational Series Inc

Which is the worlds smallest country? What is the worlds most widespread language? Here are answers to often-asked questions, and comparative facts about big cities, remote countries, wars, politics, religious traditions, transportation systems and more. Each title in "Barrons Pocket Factbooks" sero...

Wydawnictwo: Blackwell Science

Fundamentals of Physical Volcanology is a comprehensive overview of the processes that control when and how volcanoes erupt. Understanding these processes involves bringing together ideas from a number of disciplines, including branches of geology, such as petrology and geochemistry; and aspects of ...

Wydawnictwo: Blackwell Science

Whilst there is now overwhelming evidence that greenhouse-gas pollution is becoming the dominant process responsible for global warming, it is also clear that the climate system varies quite naturally on different time-scales. Predicting the course of future climate change consequently requires an u...

Wydawnictwo: Ashgate Publishing Company

How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist studies. Arguing that in any view of the lan...

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

The thoroughly updated Laboratory Manual: Minerals and Rocks: Exercises in Crystal and Mineral Chemistry, Crystallography, X-ray Powder Diffraction, Mineral and Rock Identification, and Ore Mineralogy, 3e, is for use in the mineralogy laboratory and covers the subject matter in the same sequence as ...

Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press

This is an informative text covering geographical topics with links to other parts of the curriculum. It includes a set of differentiated activities on each spread. Graded text is recommended for guided reading and comprehension work.

Wydawnictwo: McGraw-Hill

Written in easy-to-follow language with a minimum of technical jargon, Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery provides exhaustive coverage of the entire process of analyzing remotely sensed data for the purpose of producing accurate representations in thematic map format. The book explores cutt...

Wydawnictwo: Elsevier Science Publishers

The climate of the Earth is always changing. In the past it has altered as a result of natural causes. Nowadays, however, the term climate change is generally used when referring to changes in our climate which have been identified since the early part of the 1900's. The changes we've seen over rece...

Wydawnictwo: Elsevier Science Publishers

This book provides an up-to-date compilation of the latest research on the petrography, facies, paleonvironmental significance and economic aspects of continental carbonates. The overall organization of the book first emphasizes the descriptive aspects and processes operating on carbonate deposits i...