Geology

Principles of Environmental Science: Inquiry and Applications is perfect for the one-semester, non-majors environmental science course. True to its title, t...

this Newly Designed Field Guide Features Descriptions Of 524 Species Of Butterflies. One Hundred Color Photographs As Well As 348 Color Range Maps Accompa...

The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision. Two hundred and fifty million years from now, all the landmasses on this planet w...

In 1915 Alfred Wegener's seminal work describing the continental drift was first published in German. Wegener explained various phenomena of historical geol...

In Underland, Macfarland Delivers His Masterpiece: An Epic Exploration Of The Earth's Underworlds As They Exist In Myth, Literature, Memory, And The Land It...

Legends, questions and theories abound about Oak Island, Nova Scotia, and tales of buried treasure there. For more than two centuries, the island has been ...

Natural Hazards focuses on hazards as the interface between humanity and its needs for space and resources, as well as on the ongoing geologic processes of ...

Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a...

describes Physical And Statistical Aspects Of Waves For Graduates, Researchers And Engineers.Categories: Science & Math Earth SciencesGeology

In 1999, Photojournalist Gary Braasch Began A Journey Around The World To Observe And Document Environmental Changes Resulting From The Warming Of Our Plane...

Douglas H. Erwin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [275]-292) And Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth SciencesGeology

Road by road, the author carefully points out in layman's terms the complex bedrock geology and glacial sculpture that combine to create the many landscapes...

Here is a wealth of information on planet Earth, ranging from the heights of the ionsphere down to the red-hot molten core. Written by some 200 expert cont...

Deserts and Desert Environments focuses on geomorphic systems, providing a comprehensive introduction to the physical, biological, temporal, and human com...

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the...

This undergraduate textbook provides a current and comprehensive survey of the sediments and forms generated within Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene glacial...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...

Robert J. Twiss, Eldridge M. Moores. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeologyStructural

in This Short Book, David Archer Gives Us The Latest On Climate Change Research, And Skillfully Tells The Climate Story That He Helped To Discover: Genera...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...

Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial river...

A Concise And Accessible Introduction To Seismic Theory, Focusing On The Mathematical Fundamentals Of Global Seismology. Aimed At Advanced Undergraduate And...

This colorful textbook explains how the biological and nonbiological systems of the Earth function in synchrony. It walks through the stages of Earth's his...

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly...

William F. Ruddiman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences ClimatologyGeneral