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Books in Earth and planetary sciences

Elsevier's Earth and Planetary Sciences collection brings together pioneering research on the complexities of our planet and beyond. Covering topics from Earth's structural dynamics and ecosystems to planetary exploration, these titles support advancements in geoscience, environmental science, and space studies, offering essential insights for researchers, professionals, and students.

  • Paraffin Products

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14
    • January 1, 1983
    • G. Mózes
    • English

  • Physical Oceanography of Coastal and Shelf Seas

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • January 1, 1983
    • B. Johns
    • English
    This book provides a thorough treatment of both theoretical and observational aspects of the interaction between the sea-floor and the near-sea-floor dynamics; the effect this has on the distribution of internal and seabed stress; and the relevance of the associated dynamics to sedimentation processes. The theoretical work described involved both analytical and numerical modelling studies of a wide range of near-shore and shelf processes. These provide a valuable store of information on the interaction between the sea-floor and the dynamics of the overlying water. The book also includes an account of tidal analysis techniques and how these are being applied in the analysis of tidal current measurements. The observational studies relate to measurements of near-sea-floor turbulence and sand-transport in the littoral zone.

  • Groundwater in Civil Engineering

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • January 1, 1983
    • L. Rétháti
    • English
    Based on the fundamentals of geotechnics and hydrology, this book includes chapters on hydraulics, hydrogeology, pedology, hydrochemistry, meteorology and mathematical statistics. The first part deals with theoretical and methodological problems and mathematical methods; and the second presents methods of obtaining solutions to practical problems.

  • Anchoring in Rock and Soil

    • 2nd Edition
    • Volume 33
    • January 1, 1983
    • L. Hobst + 1 more
    • English

  • Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • January 1, 1983
    • L.P. Dake
    • English
    "This book is fast becoming the standard text in its field", wrote a reviewer in the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology soon after the first appearance of Dake's book. This prediction quickly came true: it has become the standard text and has been reprinted many times. The author's aim - to provide students and teachers with a coherent account of the basic physics of reservoir engineering - has been most successfully achieved. No prior knowledge of reservoir engineering is necessary. The material is dealt with in a concise, unified and applied manner, and only the simplest and most straightforward mathematical techniques are used. This low-priced paperback edition will continue to be an invaluable teaching aid for years to come.

  • Diamonds and Diamond Grading

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1983
    • G. Lenzen
    • English

  • Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 30
    • November 28, 1982
    • Adrian Gill
    • English
    A systematic, unifying approach to the dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere is given in this book, with emphasis on the larger-scale motions (from a few kilometers to global scale). The foundations of the subject (the equations of state and dynamical equations) are covered in some detail, so that students with training in mathematics should find it a self-contained text. Knowledge of fluid mechanics is helpful but not essential. Simple mathematical models are used to demonstrate the fundamental dynamical principles with plentiful illustrations from field and laboratory.

  • Advances in Heat Transfer

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • June 24, 1982
    • English

  • The Earth's Climate, Past and Future

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • June 24, 1982
    • Budyko
    • English

  • Fundamentals of Fractured Reservoir Engineering

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12
    • April 1, 1982
    • T.D. van Golf-Racht
    • English
    In the modem language of reservoir engineering by reservoir description is understood the totality of basic local information concerning the reservoir rock and fluids which by various procedures are extrapolated over the entire reservoir. Fracture detection, evaluation and processing is another essential step in the process of fractured reservoir description. In chapter 2, all parameters related to fracture density and fracture intensity, together with various procedures of data processing are discussed in detail. After a number of field examples, developed in Chap. 3, the main objective remains the quantitative evaluation of physical properties. This is done in Chap. 4, where the evaluation of fractures porosity and permeability, their correlation and the equivalent ideal geometrical models versus those parameters are discussed in great detail. Special rock properties such as capillary pressure and relative permeability are reexamined in the light of a double-porosity reservoir rock. In order to complete the results obtained by direct measurements on rock samples, Chap. 5 examines fracturing through indirect measurements from various logging results. The entire material contained in these five chapters defines the basic physical parameters and indicates procedures for their evaluation which may be used further in the description of fractured reservoirs.

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