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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “barbara romanowicz”
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  • Physics of the Earth’s Interior

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 6 October 2011

    by Barbara Romanowicz ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions: the extent of certain recent natural disasters and their dramatic consequences have reminded us of the power of terrestrial phenomena and of the need for scientific research to understand the Earth’s dynamics more fully. Over the last twenty years the study of the Earth’s interior has witnessed a real revolution, owing in particular to the development of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Q of the Earth: Global, Regional, and Laboratory Studies

    Edited by Barbara Romanowicz, Brian J. Mitchell ...
    Series series Pageoph Topical Volumes
    Variations in seismic Q are sensitive to a much greater extent than are seismic velocity variations on factors such as temperature, fluid content, and the movement of solid state defects in the earth. For that reason an understanding of Q and its variation with position in the earth and with time should provide information in earth's tectonic evolution, as well as on aspects of its internal ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Lithospheric Discontinuities

    Edited by Huaiyu Yuan, Barbara Romanowicz ...
    Series Book 239 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    A multidisciplinary update on continental plate tectonics and plate boundary discontinuitiesUnderstanding the origin and evolution of the continental crust continues to challenge Earth scientists. Lithospheric Discontinuities offers a multidisciplinary review of fine scale layering within the continental lithosphere to aid the interpretation of geologic layers. Once Earth scientists can accurately ... Read more

    $178.00 USD

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    The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

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    The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... Read more

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  • Canyons of the Colorado

    by John Wesley Powell ...
    Series series Unabridged Start Publishing LLC
    John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage of European Americans through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey ... Read more

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  • Basin and Range

    by John McPhee ...
    Series Book 1 - Annals of the Former World
    The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern ... Read more

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  • Strong in the Rain

    Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

    by Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill ...
    "A harrowing story of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that turned Japan upside down . . . contemporary journalism and history at its finest." —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times– bestselling authorBlending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immediate aftermath to life through the eyes of the men ... Read more

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  • Experimenting on a Small Planet

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    by William W. Hay ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand ... Read more

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  • Eruption

    The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

    by Steve Olson ...
    A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester).For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense ... Read more

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  • The Geology of Australia

    by Robert Henderson, David Johnson ...
    This book documents the rich and spectacular heritage of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years. Now in its third edition, The Geology of Australia provides a comprehensive overview of Australia's geology, landscapes and Earth resources. Beginning with the Precambrian rocks that hold clues to the origins of life and the development of an oxygenated atmosphere, it goes on to ... Read more

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  • Ancient Earth and the First Ancestors: A Cultural and Geological Journey

    by Ron Morton ...
    In this sequel to the award winning "Talking Rocks" an earth scientist and an Ojibwe elder travel across Minnesota exploring the ancient rocks that make up a large part of that state.As the geologist describes how these rocks formed and brings to life the ancient worlds they created, the elder, through Native American stories, oral history, culture, and scienceillustrates how his people had an ... Read more

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  • Eruptions that Shook the World

    by Clive Oppenheimer ...
    What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 19th century? These are some of the claims made for ... Read more

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