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Hydropedology
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 125.00Hydropedology is a microcosm for what is happening in Soil Science. Once a staid discipline found in schools of agriculture devoted to increasing crop yield, soil science is transforming itself into an interdisciplinary mulch with great significance not only for food production but also climate change, ecology, preservation of natural resources, forestry,... more...
A Continental Plate Boundary
Wiley 2013; US$ 120.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series . A Continental Plate Boundary offers in one place the most comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge for researchers and students to learn about the tectonics and plate dynamics of the Pacific-Australian continental plate boundary in South Island and about the application... more...
Post-Perovskite
Wiley 2013; US$ 104.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series . Discovery of the perovskite to post-perovskite phase transition in MgSiO 3 , expected to occur for deep mantle conditions, was first announced in April 2004. This immediately stimulated numerous studies in experimental and theoretical mineral physics, seismology,... more...
Extreme Events and Natural Hazards
Wiley 2013; US$ 120.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series . Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective examines recent developments in complexity science that provide a new approach to understanding extreme events. This understanding is critical to the development of strategies for the prediction... more...
Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses
CRC Press 2003; US$ 189.95This book delivers a quantitative description of colonization processes, detailing ways to prevent biofouling. It expounds on organism locomotor reactions, drift of larvae, mechanisms of settlement and attachment, the impact of currents, the gradient distribution of foulers, protection from epibionts, industrial biofouling protection, and ecologically... more...
Thrustbelts
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 94.00Thrustbelts are likely to be productive sources of hydrocarbons well into the future. Recent research and new technical tools are enabling new discoveries, or the more efficient recovery of known petroleum reserves. This unified summary is a valuable resource for academic researchers, petroleum researchers and graduate students. more...
Tensile Fracturing in Rocks
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2005; US$ 219.99Understanding tensile fracture in rocks provides an important key for the interpretation of many problems in structural geology. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to tensile fracture in rocks (faulting is briefly addressed), starting with an introduction to fracture physics and progressing through tectonofractographic features, characterized... more...
Applied Clay Mineralogy
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 175.00This book on Applied Clay Mineralogy is comprehensive. It covers the structure, composition, and physical and chemical properties of kaolinite, halloysite, ball clays; bentonites including sodium montmorillonite, calcium montmorillonite, and hectorite; and palygorskite and sepiolite. There is also a short chapter on common clays which are used for... more...
Geochemical Investigations in Earth and Space Sciences
Elsevier Science 2004; US$ 149.00This volume is the product of a technical session organized for the 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in recognition of Isaac Kaplan's many contributions to various fields of geochemistry. As Kaplan enters his sixth decade of scientific investigation, it is fair to say that his work has touched or influenced innumerable scientists either... more...
Impact Tectonics
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 219.99This volume is the 8th in a series of impact books resulting from the activities of the scientific program "Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes" (IMPACT), by the European Science Foundation. The book resulted from an international meeting at Mora, Sweden, which was held as part of the IMPACT program. The papers cover various... more...









