Earth Sciences

A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field..

This edition retains the case history approach to emphasize the subsurface diagnosis of environments using seismic and geophysical well logs and their application to petroleum exploration and production...

This edition retains the case history approach to emphasize the subsurface diagnosis of environments using seismic and geophysical well logs and their application to petroleum exploration and production...

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

A collection of papers that address such issues as model limits and reliability, emerging expert systems and integrated gas and solid phase combustion simulation models...

It is a truism that we can no longer freely pick areas with the most suitable ground conditions for building purposes. Soils must often be improved in order to take the loads from buildings, roads and other objects. This volume contains papers cov.....

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters._x005F_x000D_ Earth science is a broad field of study that encompasses many different disciplines, including meteorology, climatology, and geology. The importance of the earth sciences—in predicting weather and climate, tracking pollution, drillin..

Scientists have made new inroads in the study of the Earth's deep interior. They have forged developments in this fascinating arena using experimental and observational techniques such as seismology, monitoring of the Earth's rotation, geomagnetism, and accurate measurements of Earth's gravity field..

A broad and comprehensive exploration of the role of the ecological sciences in sustainability for undergraduates.The urgent quest for more sustainable patterns of development has placed new and difficult demands on both scientists and policy makers as they seek to establish more informed and effect..

This textbook explores the role of the ecological sciences in sustainability. The chapters explore such issues as scientific legitimacy, public participation, non-governmental organizations and inter-sectoral communication across a wide range of ecosystem management contexts...

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...