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Modern and Past Glacial Environments
Elsevier Science 2002; US$ 127.95In combining and revising the two titles 'Past Glacial Environments' and 'Modern Glacial Environments', Dr Menzies and his contributors provide the most comprehensive and wide-ranging book ever prepared on both topics. This text is produced with the student mind, providing accessibility to a complex subject and introducing topics that provide the... more...
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Springer 2005; US$ 499.00Maurice Schwartz, Editor of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments (Hutchinson Ross, 1982) has now brought forth a new volume with a fresh interdisciplinary approach that includes geomorphology, ecology, engineering, technology, oceanography, and human activities as they relate to coasts. Within its covers the Encyclopedia... more...
Rare Earth Elements in Groundwater Flow Systems
Springer 2006; US$ 119.99This is the first book of its kind to focus on the geochemistry of the lanthanide series elements in groundwater/aquifer environments. The contributors are leading researchers in the study of low-temperature geochemistry of rare earth elements. Individual chapters address analytical techniques, water-rock interactions, aqueous complexation, and the... more...
Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue
Springer 2006; US$ 119.99Focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. This book provides a multi-lateral forum for cooperation, information exchange, and dialogue among the environmental, development, foreign and security policy communities within the Mediterranean Region. more...
Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters
Springer 2006; US$ 99.99Aims to move towards a more comprehensive inventory of the benefits and costs of headwater wetlands. This book evaluates the research that tries to understand the tolerances, exchanges, checks and balances within headwater landscapes and the downstream impacts of changes in wetlands. It examines wetlands in their watershed management context. more...
The Antarctic Subglacial Lake Vostok
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 139.99A monograph examining the phenomenon of a huge sealed, freshwater lake, isolated from the rest of the world by kilometers' thick ice. It provides interpretation of, and calculations for, stimulating factors for possible melting and a huge lake's existence at the bottom of the Martian ice sheets. more...
Reactive Transport in Soil and Groundwater
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 159.99Focusing on the improvement of the scientific base for the development of integrated indicators of the environmental risks created by the presence of pollutants in water and porous media, the authors deliver insights into the understanding of integrated process, and also modeling capabilities. more...
Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global Ecodynamics
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 229.99Large-scale natural catastrophes are environmental phenomena. This book analyses the problem of natural disaster prediction and the implementation of environmental monitoring systems to receive, store and process the information necessary for solutions of specific problems in this area. more...
Fundamentals of Geomorphology
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 67.95This extensively revised and updated edition continues to present an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world?s landforms from a broad systems perspective. It reflects on the latest developments in the field and includes new chapters on geomorphic materials and processes, hillslopes and changing landscapes. Fundamentals... more...
Applied Sedimentology
Elsevier Science 2000; US$ 102.00There are three types of rock?igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Sedimentary rocks form from the weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition of older rocks. Applied Sedimentology describes the formation, transportation and deposition of sediment, and the post-depositional processes that change soft sediment into sedimentary rock. Sedimentary... more...









