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  • Orogenesis

    The Making of Mountains

    by Michael R. W. Johnson, Simon L. Harley ...
    Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide – either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating the approaches of structural geology and metamorphism, this book provides an up-to-date overview of ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

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  • Rocks and Minerals of The World

    Geology for Kids - Minerology and Sedimentology

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Rocks & Minerals Books
    Those stones you see might be an important mineral that the Earth creates. This book will open your child’s minds to the importance of the rocks and minerals you can dig up. It is a very informative book that is complete with images and just the right amount of texts too. Go ahead and get a copy of this book today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 50 Must-See Geological Sites in South Africa

    by Gavin Whitfield ...
    The book presents 50 of the most recognizable and geologically interesting sites around South Africa, including some of palaeontological or historical renown and some of mining interest. The diverse selection includes sites such as Chapman’s Peak, Howick Falls, Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens, Mapungubwe, Tswaing Meteorite Crater and the Fraserburg Fossil Surface.Each site is unpacked to ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Earth History and Palaeogeography

    by Trond H. Torsvik, L. Robin M. Cocks ...
    Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the evolution of the Earth's biota. These new and very detailed maps provide a complete and integrated Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography. They illustrate the development ... Read more

    $89.39 USD

  • Plate Tectonics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Molnar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept gradually became part of geology's basic principles. We now know that the Earth's crust and upper mantle consist of a small number of rigid plates that move, and there are significant boundaries between pairs of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gondwana Landscapes in southern South America

    Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil

    Edited by Jorge Rabassa, Cliff Ollier ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents extensive and new information on the geomorphology of cratonic areas of southern South America. It includes valuable data relating to recurrent controversies in general geomorphology beyond the boundaries of South America and reveals the great need to integrate many different aspects of geomorphology in regional studies. With the focus on ancient landscapes and especially on ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • North African Cretaceous Carbonate Platform Systems

    Edited by Eulàlia Gili, Mohamed El Hédi Negra, Peter W. Skelton ...
    Series Book 28 - NATO Science Series: IV
    This volume arises from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on 'North African Cretaceous rudist and coral formations and their contributions to carbonate platform development , which was held in Tunisia, on 13-18 May, 2002. It was convened by M. El Hedi Negra (Universite 7 Novembre de Carthage, now Universite de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) and Eulalia Gili (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Caloris Network

    A Scientific Novel

    by Nick Kanas ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The year is 2130. The first-ever expedition is sent to Mercury to search for the cause of an unknown source of electromagnetic radiation that can destroy space ships passing by the planet. Thought to be inhospitable and lifeless, the surface of Mercury provides startling surprises for the crew that endanger their lives and challenge their established notions of what it means to be a sentient being ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Asteroids Impacts, Crustal Evolution and Related Mineral Systems with Special Reference to Australia

    by Andrew Y. Glikson, Franco Pirajno ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of Australian impact structures and related mineralization, including a discussion of the significance of many of these structures for crustal evolution. The book focuses in particular on Archaean impact ejecta/fallout units in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia, large exposed and buried impact structures, and on the geophysical evidence for ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Compositional Data Analysis

    CoDaWork, L’Escala, Spain, June 2015

    Edited by Josep Antoni Martín-Fernández, Santiago Thió-Henestrosa ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The authoritative contributions gathered in this volume reflect the state of the art in compositional data analysis (CoDa). The respective chapters cover all aspects of CoDa, ranging from mathematical theory, statistical methods and techniques to its broad range of applications in geochemistry, the life sciences and other disciplines. The selected and peer-reviewed papers were originally presented ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Earthquake Time Bombs

    by Robert Yeats ...
    In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake struck the city, leaving over 100,000 dead and triggering a humanitarian crisis. In this timely study, Yeats sheds new light on other earthquake hotspots around the world ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Sedimentary Basins

    Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget

    by Gerhard Einsele ...
    The modern geological sciences are characterized by extraordinarily rapid progress, as well as by the development and application of numerous new and refined methods,most of them handling an enormous amount of data available from all the continents and oceans. Given this state of affairs, it seams inevitable that many students and professionals tend to become experts in relatively narrow fields ... Read more

    $80.09 USD