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John Wiley & Sons Inc Origin of Carbonate Sedimentary Rocks
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an overview of the origin and preservation of carbonate sedimentary rocks. The focus is on limestones and dolostones and the sediments from which they are derived.Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgements xv PART I: CARBONATE SEDIMENTOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW 1 1 CARBONATE ROCKS AND PLATFORMS 5 What are carbonate sedimentary rocks? 6 Why should we care about studying these rocks? 6 What is the scientific approach? 6 The carbonate continuum 7 How do carbonate sediments form? 9 Where are carbonates produced and where do they accumulate? 10 Tectonic settings and the nature of carbonate platforms 11 How do we study carbonate sediments and rocks? 14 Further reading 14 2 CARBONATE CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY 15 Introduction 16 Chemistry 16 Carbonate precipitation and dissolution in the ocean 19 Further reading 21 3 THE CARBONATE FACTORY 22 Introduction 23 Sediment production 23 Component modification 28 Karst and carbonate spring precipitates 36 Further reading 37 4 MARINE CARBONATE FACTORIES AND ROCK CLASSIFICATIONS 38 Introduction 39 Environmental controls 39 Benthic marine factories 46 Pelagic marine factories 47 Limestone classification schemes 47 Further reading 50 5 THE CARBONATE FACTORY: MICROBES AND ALGAE 51 Introduction 52 Microbes and carbonates 52 Microbialites 52 Modern stromatolites 54 Calcimicrobes 60 Calcareous algae 60 Further reading 66 6 THE CARBONATE FACTORY: SINGLE CELLS AND SHELLS 67 Introduction 68 Single]cell microfossils 68 Macrofossils 71 Further reading 78 7 THE CARBONATE FACTORY: ECHINODERMS AND COLONIAL INVERTEBRATES 79 Introduction 80 Echinoderms 80 Sponges 82 Bryozoans 85 Corals 89 Further reading 93 Part II: CARBONATE DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW 95 8 LACUSTRINE CARBONATES 99 Introduction 100 Modern lakes: Zonation and classification 100 Controls on lake sedimentation 101 Lake sedimentation 103 Lacustrine microbialites 107 Classification of ancient lake deposits 108 Further reading 108 9 CARBONATE SPRINGS 110 Introduction 111 Spring systems 111 Classification of springs 112 Tufa, travertine, or sinter? 113 Biota of spring systems 114 Carbonate precipitation in spring systems 114 Spring architecture 115 Calcareous spring carbonate facies 117 Further reading 122 10 WARM]WATER NERITIC CARBONATE DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS 123 Introduction 124 The carbonate factory 124 Depositional systems 125 Further reading 134 11 THE COOL]WATER NERITIC REALM 135 Introduction 136 The Carbonate Factory 136 Depositional settings 139 Warm]temperate carbonates 141 Cool]temperate carbonates 144 Cold]water, polar carbonate systems 144 The rock record 145 Further reading 148 12 MUDDY PERITIDAL CARBONATES 150 Introduction 151 Andros Island: The Bahamas 152 Shark Bay: Western Australia 154 The United Arab Emirates: Persian Gulf 155 Stratigraphy 158 The shallowing]upward peritidal cycle 158 How do numerous peritidal cycles form? 158 Temporal variations on the peritidal cycle theme 162 Further reading 163 13 NERITIC CARBONATE TIDAL SAND BODIES 165 Introduction 166 Tides and tidal currents 166 Tidal sand bodies 167 Bahamian platform ooid sand bodies 169 Types of Bahamian platform sand bodies 170 Some examples of Bahamian sand bodies 171 Inter]island tidal ooid sand bodies (tidal deltas) 173 Platform interior Bahamian ooid sand bodies 174 Carbonate ramp tidal ooid sand bodies 175 Carbonate sand bodies in straits and seaways 175 Carbonate sands in flooded incised valleys 176 Carbonate sands in hypersaline basins 177 The rock record of tidal ooid sands 177 Ancient sand body geometries 178 Further reading 178 14 MODERN REEFS 179 Introduction 180 The reef mosaic 180 The coral reef growth window 182 Shallow]water reefs 184 Deep]water reefs 189 Further reading 191 15 ANCIENT REEFS 192 Introduction 193 The ancient reef factory 193 Microbes, calcimicrobes, and calcareous algae 194 Internal cavities 195 Lithification 195 Boring and bioerosion 196 Reef stratigraphic nomenclature 196 The spectrum of ancient reefs 198 Reefs 198 Reef mounds 199 Reef geohistory 202 Reef rock classification 206 Further reading 217 16 CARBONATE SLOPES 212 Introduction 213 Depositional bathymetry 213 The deposits 213 Contourites 217 Slope types 218 Temporal and spatial variability 220 Further reading 222 17 DEEP]WATER PELAGIC CARBONATES 223 Introduction 224 Universal controls 224 Depositional controls 225 Universal attributes 226 Old pelagic sediments 226 Young pelagic sediments 228 The pelagic factory 228 Chalk 229 Associated sediments 233 Ocean anoxia 233 Further reading 233 18 PRECAMBRIAN CARBONATES 234 Introduction 235 Precambrian carbonate systems 235 The carbonate factory 235 Reefs 242 Further reading 246 19 CARBONATE SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY 247 Introduction 248 Carbonate sequence stratigraphy 249 Shallow]water reef sequence stratigraphy 250 Photozoan rimmed platforms 252 Evaporites and siliciclastics 255 Heterozoan unrimmed carbonate platforms 255 Ramps 257 Higher]order cycles (parasequences) 259 Depositional cycles 259 Further reading 259 20 THE TIME MACHINE 261 Introduction 262 Carbonates and plate tectonics 262 Paleoclimate and paleoceanography 265 Carbonates and the evolving biosphere 268 Ocean acidification 271 Further reading 271 Part III: CARBONATE DIAGENESIS: AN OVERVIEW 273 21 THE PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTS OF DIAGENESIS 277 Introduction to the processes 278 Carbonate dissolution 278 Carbonate precipitation 278 The environments 281 Synsedimentary marine diagenetic environment 282 Meteoric diagenetic environment 282 Burial diagenetic environment 284 Dolomite and dolostone 285 Further reading 285 22 ANALYTICAL METHODS 286 Introduction 287 Petrography 288 X]ray diffraction analysis 291 Scanning electron microscopy 292 Electron microprobe analysis 294 Chemical analyses 294 Further reading 296 23 THE CHEMISTRY OF CARBONATE DIAGENESIS 297 Introduction 298 Trace elements and element ratios 298 Stable isotopes 301 Oxygen isotopes 301 Carbon isotopes 303 Stable isotope values for modern biogenic carbonates 304 Carbonate stable isotope values through geologic time 305 Strontium isotopes 307 Further reading 309 24 LIMESTONE: THE SYNSEDIMENTARY MARINE DIAGENETIC ENVIRONMENT 311 Introduction 312 The setting 312 Dissolution 312 Precipitation 313 Alteration 315 Synsedimentary limestone 316 Spatial distribution of early lithification 318 Strandline diagenesis 319 The rock record 323 Isotopic composition of ancient marine cements 324 Further reading 325 25 METEORIC DIAGENESIS OF YOUNG LIMESTONES 326 Introduction 327 Processes 327 Cements and cementation 330 Diagenesis of calcite sediments 333 Importance of grain size 333 Diagenesis in different meteoric settings 334 Importance of climate 335 How long does it take? 335 The ultimate product 336 Geochemistry 337 Further reading 339 26 KARST AND WATER]CONTROLLED DIAGENESIS 341 Introduction 342 Surficial processes and products 342 Surface karst facies 342 Calcrete facies 346 Subsurface karst facies 348 Surface and subsurface carbonate geochemistry 355 Further reading 356 27 BURIAL DIAGENESIS OF LIMESTONE 357 Introduction 358 The setting 358 Controlling factors 358 Processes and products 359 Burial cementation 362 Burial diagenetic models 365 Paragenesis via cement stratigraphy 368 Further reading 369 28 DOLOMITE AND DOLOMITIZATION 370 Introduction 371 Scientific approach 371 Dolomite: the mineral 371 Dolostone: the rock 373 The limestone to dolostone transition 376 Early diagenetic alteration of dolomite 376 Dolomite geochemistry 380 Further reading 382 29 DOLOMITIZATION PROCESSES AND SYNSEDIMENTARY DOLOMITE 383 Introduction 384 What limits dolomite formation? 384 How to form extensive dolomite 385 The different types of dolomite and dolostone 386 Synsedimentary (authigenic) dolomite 386 Further reading 390 30 SUBSURFACE DOLOMITIZATION AND DOLOSTONE PARAGENESIS 392 Introduction 393 Shallow]burial early]diagenetic dolomites 393 Deep]burial late]diagenetic dolomites 396 Synthesis 399 Dolomite paragenesis 399 Further reading 402 31 DIAGENESIS AND GEOHISTORY 403 Introduction 404 Eogenetic diagenesis 404 Approach 406 Lowstand systems tract 406 Transgressive systems tract 408 Highstand systems tract 410 Post]eogenetic diagenesis 411 Further reading 413 32 CARBONATE POROSITY 414 Introduction 415 Porosity 415 Porosity measurement 415 Permeability 416 Types of porosity 416 Porosity classification 421 Porosity evolution through time 422 Porosity and dolomitization 423 The evolution of porosity 423 Integration 425 Further reading 426 GLOSSARY 427 INDEX 000
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Remote Sensing of WaterRelated Hazards
Book SynopsisApplications of remote sensing technology for monitoring and predicting water-related hazards Water-related hazards such as floods and droughts have serious impacts on society. Their incidence has increased in recent decades, a trend set to continue with ongoing climate change. Adaptation and mitigation measures require accurate detection, monitoring, and forecasting, much of which comes from remote sensing technologies. Remote Sensing of Water-Related Hazards takes an interdisciplinary approach, presenting recent advances in the available data, sensors, models, and indicators developed for monitoring and prediction. Volume highlights include: Progress in remote sensing of precipitation, storms, and tornados Different techniques for flood mapping, forecasting, and early warning Integrated approach for predicting flood and landslide cascading hazards Satellite monitoring of water cycle variation, water scarcity, and drought cTable of ContentsList of Contributors vii Preface xi 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Predicting Water-Related Hazards 1Ke Zhang, Yang Hong, and Amir AghaKouchak Part I Remote Sensing of Precipitation and Storms 2. Progress in Satellite Precipitation Products over the Past Two Decades: Evaluation and Application in Flash Flood Warning 13Guoqiang Tang, Tsechun Wang, Meihong Ma, Wentao Xiong, Feng Lyu, and Ziqiang Ma 3. Observations of Tornadoes and Their Parent Supercells Using Ground-Based, Mobile Doppler Radars 31Howard B. Bluestein Part II Remote Sensing of Floods and Associated Hazards 4. Remote Sensing Mapping and Modeling for Flood Hazards in Data-Scarce Areas: A Case Study in Nyaungdon Area, Myanmar 71Ke Zhang, Zaw Myo Khaing, and Zhijia Li 5. Multisensor Remote Sensing and the Multidimensional Modeling of Extreme Flood Events: A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey--Triggered Floods in Houston, Texas, USA 87Mengye Chen, Zhi Li, and Shang Gao 6. A Multisource, Data-Driven, Web-GIS-Based Hydrological Modeling Framework for Flood Forecasting and Prevention 105Zhanming Wan, Xianwu Xue, Ke Zhang, Yang Hong, Jonathan J. Gourley, and Humberto Vergara 7. An Ensemble-Based, Remote-Sensing-Driven, Flood-Landslide Early Warning System 123Ke Zhang, Guoding Chen, Yi Xia, and Sheng Wang 8. Detection of Hazard-Damaged Bridges Using Multitemporal High-Resolution SAR Imagery 135Wen Liu, Kazuki Inoue, and Fumio Yamazaki Part III Remote Sensing of Droughts and Associated Hazards 9. Drought Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing 151Xin Li, Ran Tao, and Ke Zhang 10. Remote Sensing of Vegetation Responses to Drought Disturbances Using Spaceborne Optical and Near-Infrared Sensors 169Ke Zhang, Linxin Liu, Yunping Li, and Ran Tao 11. Recent Advances in Physical Water Scarcity Assessment Using GRACE Satellite Data 187Emad Hasan and Aondover Tarhule 12. Study of Water Cycle Variation in the Yellow River Basin Based on Satellite Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling 203Meixia Lv and Zhuguo Ma 13. Assessing the Impact of Climate Change-Induced Droughts on Soil Salinity Development in Agricultural Areas Using Ground and Satellite Sensors 223Dennis L. Corwin and Elia Scudiero Index 245
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John Wiley & Sons Earth System Geophysics
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Weather For Dummies 2nd Edition
Book SynopsisWhat in the world is going on up there? Look up! It's a bird; it's a plane; it's a Polar mesosphericcloud!When you look to the sky, do youwonder whythe Sun is so bright or why the clouds are whiteor whythe sky is blue?Then,WeatherForDummiesis yourresourcetofuel your curiosity about the weather. Ittakes you on anexciting journey through the Earth's atmosphereand theways it behaves. You'll get an overview ofrain,Sun, clouds,stormsandother phenomena. With helpfulphotographs and illustrations, you caneasily visualizedifferentweathertypesandrelatethem intothe world around you.The scientific words and phrases are explained in detail(what is barometric pressure?), your curious questions are answered (why do we have seasons?),andthe roots ofweather myths, proverbs, and sayings arerevealed(early thunder, early spring). Discover how weatherforecastsare made, and what constitutes a weather emergencyFind out what causes change in weather,such ashow air pressure drives windsLearn how climate changeis affecting today'sweatherDiscoverhow light plays tricks on our eyes to create effects like rainbows, sun dogs, and halosHave fun with at-home weather experiments, including setting up your own weather station Perfect for any weather amateur, you can have your head in the cloudswhileyour feetareon the ground.Next time you're outside, takeWeatherForDummiesalong with you, look at the sky, and discover something new about the environment you live in. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: What’s Going On Up There? 5 Chapter 1: What in the World Is Weather? 7 Chapter 2: Forecasts and Forecasting 13 Chapter 3: Behind the Air Wars 35 Chapter 4: Land, Sea, and Precipitation: Is This Any Way to Run a Planet? 59 Part 2: Braving the Elements 77 Chapter 5: Blowing in the Winds 79 Chapter 6: Getting Cirrus 101 Chapter 7: The Greatest Storms on Earth 123 Part 3: Some Seasonable Explanations 145 Chapter 8: The Ways of Winter 147 Chapter 9: Twists and Turns of Spring 177 Chapter 10: Extremely Summer 209 Chapter 11: Falling for Autumn 231 Part 4: The Long Run 239 Chapter 12: Climate Is What You Expect; Weather Is What You Get 241 Chapter 13: Weathering Our Changing Atmosphere 265 Chapter 14: Taking Care of the Air 277 Part 5: The Special Effects 293 Chapter 15: Up in the Sky! Look! 295 Chapter 16: Tools of the Trade 311 Chapter 17: Try This at Home 327 Part 6: The Part of Tens 337 Chapter 18: Ten (or So) Most Deadly World Weather Disasters 339 Chapter 19: Ten Weatherwise Critters 345 Chapter 20: Ten Grand Old Weather Proverbs 351 Appendix: Internet Resource Directory 357 Index 365
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Explaining Our World
Book SynopsisThis book offers a rational and philosophical approach to environmental interpretation, the educational purpose of which is particularly relevant in an age when specialization tends to distance most people from direct experience of the way the environment works. In reviewing the practice of interpretation, the author emphasises that effective work in this field must be finely tuned. The interpreter must constantly bear in mind the real value and significance of the features interpreted and the needs of the visitors to whom interpretation is addressed.Trade Review'This book with its courage, freshness of approach and complete freedom from intellectual cliches is one of the three or four most valuable works on the subject to have been produced during the past 50 chaotic years. It deserves a wide readership.' - Kenneth Hudson, Director of the European Museums Forum'Should be on the shelf of every student of interpretation and practising professional.' - IJHSTable of ContentsForeword by Kenneth Hudson. Preface. Environmental Interpretation - What Is It? Why Interpret? - Aims and Motivations. Insights Offered and Sought - Interpretation's Precedents. The Very Important Feature - Conservation Comes First. Red Carpet Treatment - Understanding the Visitor. Seeking the Message - The Conscientious Researcher. Frog into Prince - Turning Information into Interpretation. Introducing the Feature - First Impressions and Ambience. Systems and Signals - Means of Communication. Some Special Cases - Limitations and Opportunities. The Entertainment Factor - Interpretation and Fun. The Business Angle - Implications for Management and Finance. Strategies to Suit Situations. Planning Interpretation Projects. The Academic Perspective - Assessment and Evaluation. Girding on the Panoply - Professionalism and Training. World Without End Interpretation and the Future. Appendix A - A Check-list for Interpretive Planning. Appendix B - A Simple Scheme for Assessing Interpretation. Appendix C - Recommended Reading. Appendix D - Interpretation Training and Professional Organisations. Index.
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British Library, Historical Print Editions An Historical Archological and Geological
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The English Channel Pilot for the South and
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British Library, Historical Print Editions A Treatise on the external characters of minerals
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Report of a geological reconnoisance of the State
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British Library, Historical Print Editions On the Silurian and Devonian Rocks of Nova Scotia
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Report on the Geological Survey of the State of
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McGraw-Hill Education Exploring Geology ISE
Book SynopsisExploring Geology by Reynolds/Johnson is an innovative textbook intended for an introductory college geology course, such as Physical Geology. This ground-breaking, visually spectacular book was designed from cognitive and educational research on how students think, learn, and study. Table of Contents1 The Nature of Geology2 Investigating Geologic Questions3 Plate Tectonics4 Earth Materials5 Igneous Environments6 Volcanoes and Volcanic Hazards7 Sedimentary Environments and Rocks8 Deformation and Metamorphism9 Geologic Time10 The Seafloor and Continental Margins11 Mountains, Basins, and Continents12 Earthquakes and Earth's Interior13 Climate, Weather, and Their Influences on Geology14 Glaciers, Shorelines, and Changing Sea Levels15 Weathering, Soil, and Unstable Slopes16 Streams and Flooding17 Water Resources18 Energy and Mineral Resources19 Geology of the Solar System
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Pearson Education Earth Resources and the Environment
Book SynopsisBalanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. The authors offer full coverage of all major types of earth resources—energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil. A minimal scientific background is assumed.Table of Contents1. Minerals: The Foundations of Society 2. Plate Tectonics and the Origins of Resources 3. Earth Resources Through History 4. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use 5. Energy From Fossil Fuels 6. Nuclear and Renewable Energy Sources 7. Abundant Metals 8. The Geochemically Scarce Metals 9. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals 10. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals 11. Water Resources 12. Soil as a Resource 13. Future Resources
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John Wiley & Sons Particulate Gravity Currents in the Environment
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Mineral Resource Estimation
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Statistical Tools and Concepts.- 3. Geological Controls and Block Modeling.- 4. Definition of Estimation Domains.- 5. Data Collection and Handling.- 6. Spatial Continuity.- 7. Mining Dilution.- 8. Recoverable Resources: Estimation.- 9. Recoverable Resources: Probabilistic Estimation.- 10. Recoverable Resources: Simulation.- 11. Resource Model Validations and Reconciliations.- 12. Uncertainty and Risk.- 13. Short Term Models.- 14. Case Studies.- 15. Conclusions.- Index.Table of Contents1 Introduction1.1 Objectives and Approach1.2 Scope of Resource Modeling1.3 Critical Aspects1.4 Historical Perspective1.5 References 2 Statistical Tools and Concepts2.1 Basic Concepts2.2 Probability Distributions2.3 Spatial Data Analysis2.4 Gaussian Distribution and Data Transformations2.5 Data Integration and Inference2.6 Exercises2.7 References 3 Geological Controls and Block Modeling3.1 Geological and Mineralization Controls3.2 Geologic Interpretation and Modeling3.3 Visualization3.4 Block Model Setup and Geometry3.5 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices3.6 Exercises3.7 References 4 Definition of Estimation Domains4.1 Estimation Domains4.2 Defining the Estimation Domains4.3 Case Study: Estimation Domains Definition for the Escondida Mine4.4 Boundaries and Trends4.5 Uncertainties Related to Estimation Domain Definition4.6 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices4.7 Exercises4.8 References 5 Data Collection and Handling5.1 Data5.2 Basics of Sampling Theory5.3 Sampling Quality Assurance and Quality Control 5.4 Variables and Data Types5.5 Compositing and Outliers5.6 Density Determinations5.7 Geometallurgical Data5.8 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices5.9 Exercises5.10 References 6 Spatial Continuity6.1 Concepts6.2 Experimental Variograms and Exploratory Analysis6.3 Modeling 3-D Variograms6.4 Multivariate Case6.5 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices6.6 Exercises6.7 References 7 Mining Dilution7.1 Recoverable vs. In-Situ Resources7.2 Types of Dilution and Ore Loss7.3 Volume-Variance Correction7.4 Information Effect7.5 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices7.6 Exercises7.7 References 8 Recoverable Resources: Estimation8.1 Goals and Purpose of Estimation8.2 Kriging Estimators8.3 CoKriging8.4 Block Kriging8.5 Kriging Plans8.6 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices8.7 Exercises8.8 References 9 Recoverable Resources: Probabilistic Estimation9.1 Conditional Distributions9.2 Gaussian-based Kriging Methods9.3 Indicator Kriging9.4 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices9.5 Exercises9.6 References 10 Recoverable Resources: Simulation10.1 Simulation versus Estimation10.2 Continuous Variables: Gaussian-based Simulation10.3 Continuous Variables: Indicator-based Simulation10.4 Simulated Annealing10.5 Simulating Categorical Variables10.6 Co-simulation: Using Secondary Information and Joint Conditional Simulations10.7 Post Processing Simulated Realizations10.8 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices10.9 Exercises10.10 Reference 11 Resource Model Validations and Reconciliations11.1 The Need for Checking and Validating the Resource Model11.2 Resource Model Integrity11.3 Resampling11.4 Resource Model Validation11.5 Comparisons with Prior and Alternate Models11.6 Reconciliations11.7 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices11.8 Exercises11.9 References 12 Uncertainty and Risk12.1 Models of Uncertainty12.2 Assessment of Risk12.3 Resource Classification and Reporting Standards12.4 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices12.5 Exercises12.6 References 13 Short Term Models13.1 Limitations of Long-term Models for Medium-term Planning13.2 Medium- and Short-term Modeling13.3 Selection of Ore and Waste13.4 Selection of Ore and Waste: Simulation-based Methods13.5 Practical and Operational Aspects of Grade Control13.6 Summary of Minimum, Good and Best Practices13.7 Exercises13.8 References 14 Case Studies14.1 The 2003 Cerro Colorado Resource Model14.2 Multiple Indicator Kriging: São Francisco Gold Deposit14.3 Modeling Escondida Norte’s Oxide Units with Indicators14.4 Multivariate Geostatistical Simulation at Red Dog Mine14.5 Uncertainty Models and Resource Classification: The Michilla Mine Case Study14.6 Grade Control at the San Cristóbal Mine14.7 Geometallurgical Modeling at Olympic Dam, South Australia14.8 References 15 Conclusions15.1 Building a Mineral Resource Model15.2 Assumptions and Limitations of the Models Used15.3 Documentation and Audit Trail Required15.4 Future Trends15.5 References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Marine Geochemistry
Book SynopsisMarine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strong critical acclaim and was described as a standard text for years to come.' This third edition of Marine Geochemistry has been written at a time when the role of the oceans in the Earth System is becoming increasingly apparent. Following the successful format adopted previously, this new edition treats the oceans as a unified entity, and addresses the question how do the oceans work as a chemical system?' To address this question, the text has been updated to cover recent advances in our understanding of topics such as the carbon chemistry of the oceans, nutrient cycling and its effect on marine chemistry, the acidification of sea water, and the role of the oceans in climate change. In addition, the importance of shelf seas in oceanic cycles has been re-evaluated in the light of nTrade Review“The third edition of Marine Geochemistry is an invaluable resource for a wide range of readers from undergraduates to researchers, providing a concise up to date summary of the interplay of chemical and biological factors that control ocean cheamistry.” (Journal of Geological Magazine, 1 August 2013 “Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals in marine sciences.” (Choice, 1 May 2013) Table of ContentsPreface to the third edition vii 1 Introduction 1 Part I The Global Journey: Material Sources 7 2 The input of material to the ocean reservoir 9 3 The transport of material to the oceans: the fluvial pathway 11 4 The transport of material to the oceans: the atmospheric pathway 52 5 The transport of material to the oceans: the hydrothermal pathway 83 6 The transport of material to the oceans: relative fl ux magnitudes 92 Part II The Global Journey: The Ocean Reservoir 125 7 Descriptive oceanography: water-column parameters 127 8 Air–sea gas exchange 154 9 Nutrients oxygen organic carbon and the carbon cycle in seawater 163 10 Particulate material in the oceans 208 11 Trace elements in the oceans 223 12 Down-column fl uxes and the benthic boundary layer 253 Part III The Global Journey: Material Sinks 271 13 Marine sediments 273 14 Sediment interstitial waters and diagenesis 290 15 The components of marine sediments 321 16 Unscrambling the sediment-forming chemical signals 352 Part IV The Global Journey: Synthesis 389 17 Marine geochemistry: an overview 391 Index 405 Colour plate pages fall between pp. 216 and 217.
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Adams Media Corporation Rockhounding for Beginners: Your Comprehensive
Book SynopsisGo on an outdoor treasure hunt and enjoy all nature has to offer with this field guide to rockhounding, perfect for armchair geologists or anyone headed out on an adventure!Geology meets treasure hunting with this field guide to rockhounding! If you’ve ever kept an interesting rock or shell, bought a polished stone from a gift shop, or even just enjoyed a ’gram of a really cool crystal, congratulations! You’ve already experienced a rockhounding adventure! Rockhouding for Beginners shows you how to take your rockhounding to the next level, providing everything you need to know from tips for finding local sources for really cool finds to techniques for safely cleaning, cutting, polishing, and caring for the best samples. Complete with full-color photos to help you identify each rock and mineral wherever you find them, this guide has all the rockhounding information you need whether you’re ready to get down and dirty or simply want to learn more from the comfort of your couch.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Wind Speed: An Overview
Book SynopsisIn this book the history and development of wind energy is reviewed. Scientific trends in the academic field of wind energy are determined using a scientometric network analysis. The relationship between wind speed forecasting and wind disasters is evaluated, particularly focusing on extra-tropical and tropical cyclones due to their dynamic origins. Wind energy plays a significant role in clean energy sources, and the amount of energy that can be produced from a wind turbine is directly related to the value of the wind speed in that specific location. The closing study focuses on wind as a source of energy in Kitka and Koznica, maintaining that in order to harness wind energy, it is necessary to carry out terrain condition analyses for the installation of wind turbines.
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Insignis Publications Female Heroes of Bird Conservation
Book SynopsisAll over the world women are working in bird conservation -- usually without the recognition they deserve, despite dedicating their lives to birds, often at considerable personal cost. They work in the field, campaign against the illegal wildlife trade and educate people in sensitive areas regarding the important role that birds play as part of the biodiversity of their locality and of the planet. This book is full of inspirational women including those who have played an important role in bird conservation and even in bird rescue centres. Their stories and those of the birds they saved will touch your heart. The book also covers social issues such as discrimination against women working in the field. This book shines a spotlight on more than 30 of these female heroes. It encourages women to be inspired by their stories and to make their own contributions to saving wonderful feathered creatures from extinction.
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Liverpool University Press How to Write an Emergency Plan
Book SynopsisThe world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create complex situations of increased vulnerability and risk. There is increasing recognition that this trend is creating exigencies that must be dealt with. The common approach is to delegate the task of preparing an emergency plan to someone. Often that person is expected to get on with job but rarely is the means and instruction of how to write such a plan provided to them. There are a host of instances in which the letter of the law, not the spirit, is honoured by providing a token plan of little validity.David Alexander provides, in this book, the assistance needed to write an emergency plan. It is a practical ‘how to’ manual and guide aimed at managers in business, civil protection officers, civil security officials, civil defence commanders, neighbourhood leaders and disaster managers who have been tasked with writing, reviewing or preparing emergency plans for all kinds of emergency, disaster or catastrophe. He takes the reader through the process of writing an emergency plan, step by step, starting with the rationale and context, before moving on through the stages of writing and activating a basic, generic emergency plan and concludes with information on specific kinds of plan, for example, for hospitals and cultural heritage sites.This practical guide also provides a core for postgraduate training in emergency management and has been written in such a way that it is not tied to the legal constraints of any particular jurisdiction.Trade Review'In his third related publication, How to Write an Emergency Plan, David Alexander once again provides an engaging and principles-based book, suitable for the novice and experienced emergency, disaster or crisis practitioner…In this book, Alexander not only considers the range of traditional circumstances, scenarios and hazard types (or sources) including natural hazards (fire and flood, for example) but extends to those that are less frequent, yet increasingly appearing on the risk profiles of governments. These include critical infrastructure failure, animal emergency diseases and human (public) health emergencies. In doing so, the book underlines the importance of acknowledging that while a type or classification of emergency, disaster and crisis may yield some common characteristics or indicate a consistent response, they are each different or unique and should be treated as such.Pleasingly, How to Write an Emergency Plan explores the contemporary process of identifying lessons and their translation to recommendations and practice. The value of a lessons-management approach cannot be underestimated and should feature as a component of all emergency, disaster or crisis management systems, plans and arrangements.Not satisfied with delivering a useful resource for an emergency, disaster or crisis planner, in his conclusion, Alexander looks forward and provides the reader with an insight as to how the role of a planner may be perceived under a variety of more than probable scenarios.I congratulate David Alexander on producing an very valuable resource and commend its reading to those with an emerging or established emergency, disaster or crisis planning role.' Australian Journal of Emergency Management‘Alexander’s (2016) newest book, How to Write an Emergency Plan, provides readers with practical advice about emergency planning. In this regard, the content of the book is as much about planning processes as it is about the content and structure of an emergency plan. This new book expands on Alexander’s previous work on the subject of emergency planning…While Alexander is a Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University of College London and a distinguished academic, his newest book is written for a lay audience and is intended to function as a guide for anyone, anywhere, who has a responsibility for emergency planning. The book is generally jargon free and key terms are defined and topics are properly introduced, making the book valuable for those without formal education or training relating to emergency management. While the book draws from both research and practice knowledge about emergency planning, the book is written in a conversational style with limited references to academic literature…Throughout the book, Alexander presents principles of practice that apply to emergency planning regardless of the context. The principles provide a concise summary of generic rules that should inform emergency planning. An example of a principle offered in the Introduction chapter is, “emergency planning is about helping to create a common language and culture, and common objectives, for the organizations and people who respond to emergencies” (Alexander, 2016, p. 7). Most but not all sections in the book offer one or more principles that help to summarize and reinforce key best practices.Overall, the book provides considerable guidance related to developing and writing an emergency plan. While noting that context matters and explaining how it matters (e.g., local hazards, legislation), Alexander’s approach to how to develop and write an emergency plan is for the most part, context-independent. Further, while the book recognizes mandated responsibility for emergency planning by civil authorities, the idea of emergency management as being a distributed function within society, with other entities (e.g., industry, schools) also having responsibility for emergency planning is acknowledged. In this regard, there is good value in Alexander’s newest book for a broad audience who have interest in or responsibility for emergency planning.’Recovery Diva, May 2017Table of ContentsContents: Foreword. 1. Introduction. Scope and objectives of this book; 2. What are emergencies? 3. What is an emergency plan? 4. The emergency planning process; 5. First step: background research; 6. Second step: scenario building; 7. Third Step: from scenarios to actions; 8. A note on the structure of the plan; 9. Fourth step: using the plan; 10. Planning to maintain the continuity of normal activities; 11. Specialized emergency planning; 12. Conclusion: the future of emergency planning. Afterword. Appendix 1: Glossary of working definitions by key terms. Appendix 2: Bibliography of selected references. Index.
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Liverpool University Press Mountains: The Origins of the Earth’s Mountain
Book Synopsis'Outstanding Academic Title' Choice, magazine of the Association of College & Research Libraries, American Library Association.Most mountains on Earth occur within relatively well-defined, narrow belts separated by wide expanses of much lower-lying ground. Their distribution is not random but is caused by the now well-understood geological processes of plate tectonics. Some mountains mark the site of a former plate collision – where one continental plate has ridden up over another, resulting in a zone of highly deformed and elevated rocks. Others are essentially volcanic in origin.The most obvious mountain belts today – the Himalayas, the Alps and the Andes, for example - are situated at currently active plate boundaries. Others, such as the Caledonian mountains of the British Isles and Scandinavia, are the product of a plate collision that happened far in the geological past and have no present relationship to a plate boundary. These are much lower, with a generally gentler relief, worn down through millennia of erosion.The presently active mountain belts are arranged in three separate systems: the Alpine-Himalayan ranges, the circum-Pacific belt and the mid-ocean ridges. Much of the Alpine-Himalayan belt is relatively well known, but large parts of the circum-Pacific and ocean-ridge systems are not nearly as familiar, but contain equally impressive mountain ranges despite large parts being partly or wholly submerged.This book takes the reader along the active mountain systems explaining how plate tectonic processes have shaped them, then looks more briefly at some of the older mountain systems whose tectonic origins are more obscure. It is aimed at those with an interest in mountains and in developing an understanding of the geological processes that create them.Trade Review'This highly attractive, superbly illustrated book provides a comprehensive review of 'European' volcanoes that have been active in the past 10 000 years. It includes all active and dormant volcanoes and some that can probably be regarded as extinct. 'Europe' is meant in a political rather than a geographical sense and hence includes oceanic islands of the North Atlantic and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge... Ironically, I received the invitation to review this book whilst on a Geologists' Association tour of Italian volcanoes, but I did not see it until after I had returned home. It summarises and illustrates beautifully all that we saw on that trip but how I wish that I had had it earlier and I know that this is a volume that I will dip into again and again.' Edinburgh Geologist' 'At first glance, it would be tempting to describe this attractive book merely as a "geological atlas of mountains," but this would do the author a grave disservice. Yes, it presents a detailed snapshot of our current geological knowledge of the world's mountain belts. However, the text not only describes how the mountains vary in space, but it also explores how they have evolved over time. As the author dissects their anatomy, he also examines the geological processes involved in shaping them, from youth to maturity. Moreover, their development is considered within the context of the whole Earth system and the overarching model of plate tectonics-key concepts that underpin the discipline of geology and that are summarized in one of the early chapters... This volume could satisfy several different types of reader. I can imagine an undergraduate geology or geography student turning to it for authoritative, first-order information on an unfamiliar mountain region, say for an assignment, and dipping in to the appropriate chapter, before perhaps being drawn in to other sections by simple curiosity. Similarly, for a geological researcher skimming rapidly for background information before embarking on investigations in a new mountain belt, it is the perfect place for a swift overview before diving into the expert literature via the references towards the back of the book. However, I can also see this volume on the cluttered bookshelf or coffee table of anyone who is fascinated by mountains-from whatever angle-and has been searching for a book to paint in the geological background of their own mental portrait of what a mountain is. This book is what they have been seeking.' Mountain Research and Development 'Never before has anyone taken a global look at mountain , in this way and presented the material in such a clear and fairly simple manner. To do the task Graham uses superb colourful maps and sections. accompanied by excellent colour photographs. The large format pages are uncluttered allowing the images to be reproduced at generous sizes. My summary - a great read!' Down to EarthTable of ContentsSourced illustrations. Preface and acknowledgements. 1: Introduction; 2:Historical views; 3: Plate-tectonic framework; 4: The Western Mediterranean; 5: The Central Mediterranean: Alps and Apennines; 6: The Carpathians, the Balkans and Turkey; 7: Iran to Pakistan; 8: The India–Asia collision zone; 9: Southeast Asia; 10: The Western Pacific rim; 11: The North American Cordillera; 12: Central America, the Andes and Antarctica; 13: The ocean ridges; 14: Older Mountain Belts. Glossary. References and Further Reading. Index.
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Liverpool University Press Planetary Geology
Book SynopsisIn a dynamic treatment of planets of the Solar System from a unified perspective Planetary Geology deals with the origin of planetary bodies, the forces that fashion their surfaces, the rise and fall of icecaps and oceans, and the role of life in planetary history.
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Liverpool University Press Explaining the Earth
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Y Lolfa Skomer Island - Its History and Natural History
Book SynopsisThe definitive analysis of one of UK''s most beloved nature spots, written by an expert with 50 years'' experience in the field and a long-standing connection with the island. Hundreds of stunning colour photographs throughout. Forewords by Iolo Williams and Professor Chris Perrins, FRS.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd SOCIAL CONTOURS OF RISK
Book SynopsisWe live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume I collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities, corporations and the larger society. It analyses the problems of lack of transparency and trust, and explores how even minor effects can be amplified and distorted through media and social responses, preventing effective management. The final section investigates the difficult ethical issues raised by the unequal distribution of risk depending on factors such as wealth, location and genetic inheritance - with examples from worker and public protection, facility-siting conflicts, transporting hazardous waste and widespread impacts such as climate change. Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.Table of ContentsVolume I * PART 1 - COMMUNICATING RISK AND INVOLVING PUBLICS * Six Propositions on Public Participation and Their Relevance for Risk Communication * Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks * Evaluating Risk Communication * Considerations and Principles for Risk Communication for Industrial Accidents * Risk and the Stakeholder Express * PART 2 THE SOCIAL AMPLIFICATION OF RISK * The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework * Hidden Hazards * Media Risk Signals and the Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, 1985-1989 * Stigma and the Social Amplification of Risk: Towards a Framework of Analysis * Risk, Trust and Democratic Theory * The Social Amplification of Risk: Assessing 15 Years of Research and Theory * PART 3 RISK AND ETHICS * Responding to the Double Standard of Worker/Public Protection * Developmental and Geographical Equity in Global Environmental Change: A Framework for Analysis * Redirecting the US High-Level Radioactive Waste Programme * Siting Hazardous Facilities: Searching for Effective Institutions and Processes * Climate Change, Vulnerability and Social Justice * Volume II * PART 1 RISK AND SOCIETY: FRAMING THE ISSUES * Acceptability of Human Risk * Societal Response to Hazards and Major Hazard Events: Comparing Natural and Technological Hazards* Large-scale Nuclear Risk Analysis: Its Impacts and Future * PART 2 CORPORATIONS AND RISK * Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research * Avoiding Future Bhopals * Emergency Planning for Industrial Crises: An Overview * Corporate Culture and Technology Transfer * Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal * PART 3 THE GLOBALIZATION OF RISK * Hazards in Developing Countries: Cause for Global Concern * Priorities in Profile: Managing Risks in Developing Countries * Risk and Criticality: Trajectories of Regional Environmental * (Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, Massachusetts, US * Border Crossings * Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change *
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Gwasg Carreg Gwalch Afon a'r Graig, Yr - Ceubyllau Afonydd Cymru
Book SynopsisWhere rivers flow over rock, the combined action of water and sediment can create intricate and beautiful natural sculptures. Some of the most striking forms are potholes: roughly circular depressions carved into the rocky beds of turbulent, upland rivers.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rationality and Ritual: Participation and
Book SynopsisIn Rationality and Ritual, internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britain's nuclear history – the Windscale Inquiry, a public hearing about the future of fuel reprocessing – he offers a powerful critique of such judicial procedures and the underlying assumptions of the rationalist approach. This second edition makes available again this classic and still very relevant work. Debates about nuclear power have come to the fore once again. Yet we still do not have adequate ways to make decisions or frame policy deliberation on these big issues, involving true public debate, rather than ritualistic processes in which the rules and scope of the debate are presumed and imposed by those in authority. The perspectives in this book are as significant and original as they were when it was written. The new edition contains a substantial introduction by the author reflecting on changes (and lack of) in the intervening years and introducing new themes, relevant to today's world of big science and technology, that can be drawn out of the original text. A new foreword by Gordon MacKerron, an expert on energy and nuclear policy, sets this seminal work in the context of contemporary nuclear and related big technology debates.Trade Review'Profound and stimulating...a brilliant analysis' – Dr Alvin Weinberg, former Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Physics Division 'A wonderful, original and still-timely book. Very sensitively and powerfully, Wynne shows how authentic progress is compromised and crippled, effectively by 'rational' pre-emption of authentic debate.' – Professor Ulrich Beck, University of Munich , Germany 'A profound and lasting challenge to conventional academic as well as policy wisdom on scientific rationality and the politics of technology.' – Professor Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada 'Raises questions far beyond its specific subject matter and will be an important reference point for future work in the area.' – Nature 'A book rich in insight.' – British Journal of History of Science 'A splendid example of how social science analysis ... can inform our understanding of science and technology policy making.' – Isis 'A detailed scholarly study... This book should prove particularly valuable for students of comparative regulatory process who are looking for informed discussions of non-US regulatory systems.' – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 'The revival of official commitment to nuclear power alone makes a re-reading of 'Rationality and Ritual' an important contribution to understanding the issues. But while Brian Wynne's book is based empirically on nuclear power as a particularly powerful exemplar, it has wider resonance in its deep dissection of the moral, political and cultural issues that the relationship between scientific expertise and political process - more recently in debates about genetics and biotechnology - involves. The book was a pioneering study in its depth and capacity to illuminate. It remains so to this day.' – From the Foreword by Gordon MacKerron, Director of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex and former Chair of CoRWM (Committee on Radioactive Waste Management) 'One thing is certain: there are few occasions in which such a concentration of high-powered legal advocates have enjoyed debate. By any standard the cast is impressive...Even at their best however they have not outshone some of the lay advocates, such as Dr Brian Wynne, for Network for Nuclear Concern...' – From the article, 'At Windscale, the amateurs shine in the battle of the legal giants' in the Times, 28th October 1977Table of ContentsForeword by Gordon MacKerron Rationality and Ritual: A Quarter-Century Retrospect Preface to Original Edition Introduction The Decision-making Legacy Oxide Reprocessing: The Background The Public Inquiry Tradition: A Comparative Perspective The Emergence of THORP from a Private to a Public Issue The Process and Impact of the Inquiry Judicial Rationality, Expert Conflict and Political Authority The Rationality and Politics of Analysis Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis
Book SynopsisRemote Sensing Digital Image Analysis provides a comprehensive treatment of the methods used for the processing and interpretation of remotely sensed image data. Over the past decade there have been continuing and significant developments in the algorithms used for the analysis of remote sensing imagery, even though many of the fundamentals have substantially remained the same. As with its predecessors this new edition again presents material that has retained value but also includes newer techniques, covered from the perspective of operational remote sensing. The book is designed as a teaching text for the senior undergraduate and postgraduate student, and as a fundamental treatment for those engaged in research using digital image analysis in remote sensing. The presentation level is for the mathematical non-specialist. Since the very great number of operational users of remote sensing come from the earth sciences communities, the text is pitched at a level commensurate with their background. The chapters progress logically through means for the acquisition of remote sensing images, techniques by which they can be corrected, and methods for their interpretation. The prime focus is on applications of the methods, so that worked examples are included and a set of problems conclude each chapter.Table of ContentsSources and characteristics of remote sensing image data.- correcting and registering images.- interpreting images.- radiometric enhancement of images.- geometric processing and enhancement: image domain techniques.- spectral domain image transforms.- spatial domain image transforms.- supervised classification techniques.- clustering and unsupervised classification.- Feature Reduction.- Image Classification in Practice.- Multisource Image Analysis.
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Springer International Publishing AG Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps
Book SynopsisThis volume details the function of hydrocarbon seeps, their evolution over time, the most important seep occurrences and the fauna present in ancient hydrocarbon seeps. While several publications exist that cover modern seeps and vents, fossil seeps only constitute a small component of the literature. As such, many geologists, stratigraphers and paleontologists, as well as undergraduates and graduate students, are not very familiar with ancient hydrocarbon seep deposits and their associated fauna. This text is the first to comprehensively discuss the nature of such animal groups and how to recognize them. In addition to summarizing available knowledge on these topics for specialists in the field, this book offers the background needed to be of use to students as well as the wider community of geologists and paleontologists.Table of ContentsChapter 1-Introduction.- Chapter 2-Biogeochemical processes.- Chapter 3-Taphonomy and diagenesis of seeps.- Chapter 4-Biota.- Chapter 5-Seeps around the world.- Chapter 6-Seeps as ecosystems.- Chapter 7-Evolution of seep communities over geological time.- Chapter 8-Cognate communities.
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Springer International Publishing AG The History of Natural Stone in SaintPetersburg
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Mdpi AG Development of Unconventional Reservoirs
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Mdpi AG Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions
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Mdpi AG Emissions Control Catalysis
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Mdpi AG Advances in Modelling and Prediction on the
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Springer International Publishing AG The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle
Book SynopsisThis is the first book describing the glorious geology of Iceland’s Golden Circle and four additional excursions:(1) the beautiful valleys and mountains of the fjord of Hvalfjördur, (2) the unique landscape and geothermal fields of the Hengill Volcano, (3) the explosion craters, volcanic fissures, and lava fields of the Reykjanes Peninsula, and (4) the volcanoes (Hekla, Eyjafjallajökull, Katla), waterfalls, sandur plains, and rock columns of South Iceland. The Golden Circle offers a unique opportunity to observe and understand many of our planet’s forces in action. These forces move the Earth’s tectonic plates, rupture the crust, and generate earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, channels for rivers and waterfalls, and heat sources for hot springs and geysers. The Golden Circle includes the famous rifting and earthquake fracture sites at Thingvellir, the hot springs of the Geysir area, the waterfall of Gullfoss, and the Kerid volcanic crater. As the book is primarily intended for people with no background in geosciences, no geological knowledge is assumed and technical terms are avoided as far as possible (those used are explained in a glossary). With more than 240 illustrations – mostly photographs – explaining geological structures and processes, it is also a useful resource for geoscientists. Trade Review“This travel guide in Springer’s ‘GeoGuide’ series is an excellent companion for exploring Iceland’s iconic geological features, all accessible within a day’s drive of the capital, Reykjavik. Its compact size, water and dirt resistant cover, and sturdy binding are all designed for rigorous outdoor use. … The book is profusely illustrated with maps, diagrams, and an abundance of color photographs of geological features. … Highly recommended. All readers.” (W. L. Cressler III, Choice, Vol. 55 (12), August, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Keflavik to Reykjavik.- Reykjavik.- Reykjavik to Thingvellir.- Thingvellir.- Thingvellir to Geysir.- Geysir.- Gullfoss.- Gullfoss-Kerid-Reykjavik.- Other one-day geological excursions from Reykjavik.- Reykjavik-Hvalfjördur.- Reykjavik-Hengill.- Reykjavik-Kleifarvatn-Reykjanes.- Reykjavik-Eyjafjallajökull-Reynisfjara.
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Springer International Publishing AG Citizen Empowered Mapping
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Springer International Publishing AG Under the Sea: Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf
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Scholars' Press Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of
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Novas Edicoes Academicas Espaço Público: Desenho, Organização e Poder
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Principles and Applications of Well Logging
Book SynopsisThis book primarily focuses on the principles and applications of electric logging, sonic logging, nuclear logging, production logging and NMR logging, especially LWD tools, Sondex production logging tools and other advanced image logging techniques, such as ECLIPS 5700, EXCELL 2000 etc. that have been developed and used in the last two decades. Moreover, it examines the fundamentals of rock mechanics, which contribute to applications concerning the stability of borehole sidewall, safety density window of drilling fluid, fracturing etc. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for a wide range of readers, including students majoring in petrophysics, geophysics, geology and seismology, and engineers working in well logging and exploitation.Table of ContentsElectrical Logging.- Sonic Logs.- Nuclear Logs.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.- Production Logging(PL).- Logging While Drilling(LWD).- The Advanced Well Logging Technology.- Rock Mechanics.- Integrated Interpretation of Well Logging Data.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Principles and Applications of Well Logging
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Earth
Book SynopsisAbout 80 years ago, it was possible for the first time to confirm what modern science had suggested for centuries: Earth shows its sphericity based on a curved horizon. Images sent back from many spacecraft showed how Earth and its Moon are part of the solar system. This book is a journey away from Earth, but always looking back at it.
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Springer Verlag, Japan Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards held July 12–15, 2014, in Kitakyushu, Japan. The workshop was the sixth in the series of Japan–Taiwan Joint Workshops on Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls, held under the auspices of the Asian Technical Committee No. 3 on Geotechnology for Natural Hazards of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. It was co-organized by the Japanese Geotechnical Society and the Taiwanese Geotechnical Society. The contents of this book focus on geotechnical and natural hazard-related issues in Asia such as earthquakes, tsunami, rainfall-induced debris flows, slope failures, and landslides. The book contains the latest information and mitigation technology on earthquake- and rainfall-induced geotechnical natural hazards. By dissemination of the latest state-of-the-art research in the area, the information contained in this book will help researchers, designers, consultants, government officials, and academicians involved in the mitigation of natural hazards. The findings and other information provided here is expected to contribute toward the development of a new chapter in disaster prevention and mitigation of geotechnical structures.Table of ContentsInitial Trigger for Slope Failures in Volcanic Ash Layer of Hillside Surface in Izu-Oshima Island in Japan due to a Typhoon Rainfall in 2013.- A Case Study on Silty Sand Liquefaction.- Bearing Capacity of Breakwater Mound under Tsunami-induced Seepage Flow.- Verification of improvement effectiveness by compaction methods during the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake.- Development of rational soil liquefaction countermeasure consisting of lattice-shaped soil improvement by jet grouting for existing housing estates.- Uplift Mechanism of Rectangular Tunnel in Liquefied Soils.- Seismic Response of Geosynthetic Reinforced Earth Embankment on Different Soil Foundation.- Development of a new in-place cement-mixing method by high pressure injection.- Use of Swedish weight sounding tests for detecting liquefiable backfills reclaimed in iron sand mining pits in Asahi city of Chiba in Japan.- GIS-based study on liquefaction-induced soil subsidence in the Urayasu area due to the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake.- Effects of non-plastic fines on undrained cyclic behavior of loose sand.- An investigation on the liquefaction-induced sloped ground failure during the 1964 Niigata Earthquake.- Laboratory Experiments on Seepage in Liquefied Sand.- Effects of Cyclic Triaxial Loading Rates on Liquefaction Behavior of Fine-Grained Soils.- Effect of Gravel Content on Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity in Sand.- Effects of overconsolidation, cement stabilisation and unsaturation on the liquefaction resistance of Urayasu sand.- Loessial Landslides Induced by the Minxian-Zhangxian Ms6.6 Earthquake of China in 2013.- Numerical Simulation of Run-out Behavior of Earthquake-induced Landslides.- The geometric characteristics and initiation mechanisms of the earthquake-triggered Daguangbao landslide.- Centrifuge Modeling of Relationships between Earthquake Intensities and scales of post-quake Triggering Rainfall and Landslide.- Time-prediction method of the onset of a rainfall-induced landslide based on the monitoring of surface displacement and groundwater level in the slope.- Typhoon Rainfall Induces Slope Creep, Groundwater Variation, and Slope movement.- Topographic Characteristic of the Rainfall Inducing landslide in Slate Stratum–Case of Ai-Liao Catchment, South Taiwan.- Site Investigation and In Situ Testing on Shallow Landslide Scars of Natural Slopes Covered by Volcanic Ash and Pumice Fall.- Overhaul the Anchored Slopes in Taiwan.- A study by field measurement and numerical simulation about rainfall seepage mechanism in case of torrential rainfall.- Numerical simulation for the earthquake-induced deformation of a residential-land slope reinforced with landslide prevention piles.- Centrifuge model test on slope reinforcement by Rock bolt with Facing Plate.- Numerical Simulation of Post-entrainment Debris Flow at Alluvial Fan Using FLO-2D Model.- Photomicrograph Investigation of Rock Thin Sections taken from Landslides Scree by the Eastern Honshu Earthquake, 2008.- An Extension to Weiler–Atherton Clipping Algorithm for the Face-to-face Contact in Three-dimensional Discrete Element Method.- Application of Three-dimensional Discontinuous Deformation Analysis to Simulate Characteristics of Planar Translational Slope Failure.- Hazard mapping for earthquake induced geo-disaster chain.- Monitoring Techniques for Sediment Disaster in Mountant Area.- Seismic Performance of Piles from EQWEAP and Monte Carlo Simulation Analyses.- The overflow model experiment using the waterway for examining the countermeasure effect against the Tsunami-induced tide embankment scouring.- Analysis of a coastal structure damaged due to compound effect of earthquake and tsunami.- An Example of the Restoration Method of Levees Damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake.- Remediation of a Failed Slope Located at Fault Fracture Zone.- Case Study of Using the Low-Pressure Grouting Method to Uplift a Tilted Building.- A Study on the Bio-treatment Technique of Ground Improvement with Urease Micro-organisms which Live in Japan.- Behavior of Breakwater Foundation Reinforced with Steel Sheet Piles under Seismic Loading.- Shaking table model tests on mitigation of liquefaction-induced distortion of shallow foundation.- Study on the effect of union basement on decreasing destruction during liquefaction.- Analysis of the lateral force on stabilizing piles in c-φ soil.- Application of Close-Range Photogrammetry for Post-Failure Reconnaissance of a Retaining Wall.- Seismic response of a newly-developed geocell reinforced soil retaining wall backfilled with gravel by shaking table model test.- Ultimate Lateral Resistance of Piles in Soils based on Active Pile Length.- Effect of backfill reinforcement on retaining wall under dynamic loading.- Numerical study on the seismic response of waterfront retaining wall reinforced with cushion.- Factors Controlling the Behavior of Piled Foundations due to Cyclic Lateral Loading.- Centrifugal model loading tests on reinforced soil retaining wall with ground water permeation.- Horizontal pressure on a non-yielding wall due to flexible and rigid strip loading.- Matric Suction and Shear Modulus of Unsaturated Compacted Lateritic Soil Subjected to Drying and Wetting.- A constant-head well permeameter measurement of saturated hydraulic conductivity in the vadose zone and the capabilities of carbon dioxide injection.- Remediation of Volcanic Ash Soil in Related to Soil Erodibility against the Heavy Rainfall.- Structural Patterns Effects on the Tensile Properties of Hexagonal Wire Meshes (12 cm x 15 cm).
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Biplob World Pvt The Adventures of Biplob the Bumblebee Volume 4
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Springer Particle-Laden Flow: From Geophysical to Kolmogorov Scales
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Springer Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters: Vulnerability, Preparedness and Mitigation
Book SynopsisThe major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and environmental security. Owing to enhanced natural/anthropogenic disasters worldwide, these challenges become much more complicated and daunting especially for developing countries. Therefore, it is important to highlight the risk of different disasters as well as the modern tools and techniques for minimizing disaster incidence and losses. Disaster management being highly multidisciplinary in nature, a comprehensive book dealing with different aspects of disaster management, and encompassing important disasters faced by humankind is presently not available. This book is an attempt to fulfill this gap. It provides clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about different facets of disaster management along with salient case studies. The book highlights the current status of disaster management focusing on developing nations, discusses vital issues such as climate change and sustainable development, modern approaches and tools/techniques, and the challenges of and future R&D needs for sustainable disaster management. Table of Contents1. Natural and anthropogenic disasters: An overview 2. Earthquakes in India: Hazards, Genesis and Mitigation Measures 3. Impact of 2004 Tsunami on Housing, Sanitation and Water Supply as Wastes Management: The Cases of the Ampara District in Sri Lanka 4. Impact of December 2004 Tsunami on India Coasts and Mitigation Measures 5. Tsunami Impacts and Rehabilitation of Groundwater Supply: Lessons Learned from Eastern Sri Lanka 6. Tsunami Early Warning System: An Indian Ocean Perspective 7. Flood Hazards in India and Management Strategies 8. Modeling for Flood Control and Management 9. Real-time Flood Forecasting by a Hydrometric Data-Based Technique 10. Drought Hazards and Mitigation Measures 11. Indicators for Assessing Drought Hazard in Arid Regions of India 12. Tropical Cyclones: Trends, Forecasting and Mitigation 13. Temperature Extremes over India and their Relationships with El Nino-Southern Oscillation 14. Monitoring Physiographic Rainfall Variation for Sustainable Management of Water Bodies in India 15. Emerging Tools and Techniques for Mine Safety and Disaster Management 16. Management of Forest Fire Disaster: Perspectives from Swaziland 17. Climate Change and Water Resources in India: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies 18. Global Climate Change vis-a-vis Crop Productivity 19. Adapting Smallholder Dairy Production System to Climate Change 20. Climate Change-Proof Disaster Risk Reduction: Prospects and Challenges 21. Potential of Geospatial Technologies for Mitigating Land and Water Related Disasters 22. Decision Support System: Concept and Potential for Integrated Water Resources Management 23. Sustainable Forest Management: Key to Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation 24. Participatory Information Management for Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction 25. Cyclone Emergency Preparedness in DAE Coastal Installations, India 26. Sustainable Management of Disasters: Challenges and Prospects Index
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Springer Verlag, Singapore ICIPEG 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences
Book SynopsisThis book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 2016 (ICIPEG 2016), held under the banner of World Engineering, Science & Technology Congress (ESTCON 2016) at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from August 15 to 17, 2016. It presents peer-reviewed research articles on exploration, while also exploring a new area: shale research. In this time of low oil prices, it highlights findings to maintain the exchange of knowledge between researchers, serving as a vital bridge-builder between engineers, geoscientists, academics, and industry.Table of ContentsHistory Matching Using Proxy Modeling and Multi-Objective Optimizations.- New Insight in Sand and Petrophysical Properties Prediction Using Attenuation Attributes.- Optimizing Injection Perforated Layers of Lateral Continuous Shale during Secondary Recovery; A Simulation Approach.- Sensitivity Analysis of Sandstone Rock Elastic Properties to Effective Pressure Using a New Rock Physics Workflow and Its Application for Time-Lapse Seismic Data Analysis.- Comparison of Liquid CO2 Injection with a Common Tertiary Recovery Method Using Non-Isothermal Simulations.- A Simulation Study of Foam Generation across Vertical Heterogeneity.- Pressure Transient Behavior of Injection/Falloff Tests Simulation Study Of The Effect Of Smart Water On Relative Permeability During WAG-CO2 Injection For Light Oil Reservoir.- Investigation on Performance of Cationic Polymeric Inhibitors for Mitigating Silicate Scales during ASP Flooding.
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