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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.

  • Fundamental of Ocean Dynamics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • Deltaic and Shallow Marine Deposits

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Oil Shale

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • G.V. Chilingarian + 1 more
    • English

  • Contemporary Hydrogeology

    The George Burke Maxey memorial volume
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12
    • English

  • Terminal Eocene Events

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • C. Pomerol + 1 more
    • English
    The papers in this volume provide an exhaustive inventory and description of the most complete sedimentary sequences across the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary (EOB) from all over the world, and present a synthesis of the biotic and chemico-physical events detected at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. The content of the book represents the results achieved by Project no. 174 on ``Geological Events at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary'' of the International Geological Correlation Program, sponsored by UNESCO. The project was carried out over a five year period and has provided a wealth of new and interesting information.

  • Marine Organic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 31
    • E.K. Duursma + 1 more
    • English

  • Influence of Abyssal Circulation on Sedimentary Accumulations in Space and Time

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23
    • English

  • Geomorphology of oil and gas fields in sandstone bodies

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English

  • Bitumens, asphalts, and tar sands

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • Bentonites

    Geology, mineralogy, properties and uses
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • English

  • Sedimentology and Ore Genesis

    Proceedings of a symposium, held during the Sixth International Sedimentological Congress, Delft, 1963
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Hypersaline Brines and Evaporitic Environments

    Proceedings of the Bat Sheva Seminar on Saline Lakes and Natural Brines
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28
    • English

  • International Clay Conference, 1978

    Proceedings of the VI International Clay Conference 1978 held in Oxford, 10-14 July, 1978 / organized by the Clay Minerals Group, Mineralogical Society, London, under the auspices of Association internationale pour lÆe¦tude des argiles
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 27
    • English

  • Submersibles and Their Use in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • R.A. Geyer
    • English

  • Carbonate Rocks

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9A
    • English

  • Ecohydrodynamics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32
    • J.C.J. Nihoul
    • English

  • Multiobjective Optimization in Water Resources Systems

    The surrogate worth trade-off method
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Pipeline Design for Water Engineers

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

  • Sedimentary structures, their character and physical basis Volume 2

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 30B
    • English

  • Archaean Geochemistry

    Proceedings of the Symposium on Archaean Geochemistry: the Origin and Evolution of Archaean Continental Crust, held in Hyderabad, India, November 15-19, 1977
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Modelling of Marine Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • J.C.J. Nihoul
    • English

  • The Late Neogene

    Biostratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoclimatology of the last 15 million years in marine and continental sequences
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Computer Systems and Water Resources

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • The Chemistry of Clay Minerals

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Physiological Limnology

    An Approach to the Physiology of Lake Ecosystems
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • A.J. Boucot
    • English

  • Hydrology and Water Resources in Tropical Africa

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • J. Balek
    • English

  • The Identification of Detrital Feldspars

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

  • Sedimentary features of flysch and greywackes

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • The Movement of Beach Sand

    An Analysis Using Fluorescent Grains
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • English

  • Stratigraphic Micropaleontology of Atlantic Basin and Borderlands

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

  • Precambrian of the Northern Hemisphere

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

    Physical and Numerical Aspects
    • 2nd Edition
    • Volume 101
    • Benoit Cushman-Roisin + 1 more
    • English
    Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics provides an introductory-level exploration of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), the principles governing air and water flows on large terrestrial scales. Physical principles are illustrated with the aid of the simplest existing models, and the computer methods are shown in juxtaposition with the equations to which they apply. It explores contemporary topics of climate dynamics and equatorial dynamics, including the Greenhouse Effect, global warming, and the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

  • The techniques of sedimentary mineralogy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English

  • Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology

    • 1st Edition
    • Igor Florinsky
    • English
    Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology provides soil scientists and geologists with an integrated view of the principles and methods of digital terrain analysis. Its attention to first principles and focus on error analysis makes it a useful resource for scientists to uncover the method applications particular to their needs. Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology covers a wide range of applications in the context of multi-scale problems of soil science and geology.

  • Evidence-Based Climate Science

    Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming
    • 1st Edition
    • Don Easterbrook
    • English
    Global warming and human-induced climate change are perhaps the most important scientific issues of our time. These issues continue to be debated in the scientific community and in the media without true consensus about the role of greenhouse gas emissions as a contributing factor. Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data opposing CO2 emissions as the primary source of global warming objectively gathers and analyzes scientific data concerning patterns of past climate changes, influences of changes in ocean temperatures, the effect of solar variation on global climate, and the effect of CO2 on global climate to clearly and objectively present counter-global-warmi... evidence not embraced by proponents of CO2.

  • Physical and Chemical Oceanography, and Physical Resources

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24B
    • English

  • Hydrocarbons

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 27A
    • English

  • Groundwater Hydraulics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • V. Hálek + 1 more
    • English

  • Pleistocene Vertebrate Faunas of Hungary

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • D. Jánossy
    • English
    The last two decades have seen a spectacular renewal of interest in the study of Pleistocene vertebrates. This is especially true in the case of fine stratigraphy based on microvertebrates. Hungary's natural endowments as well as the development of science in the country, have made continuous research in this area possible since the last century.The literature amassed during the last fifty years is so scattered and difficult to retrieve that there has been a great need for a comprehensive treatise in this field. Recent decades have seen work in a series of important new localities, with new systematic-stratigra... results. This Hungarian work is outstanding in Europe for its quantity and completeness. It is clear that a handbook would have to be both comprehensive and analytical. This volume aims to be just that, in so far as it describes all animal assemblages of the Hungarian Pleistocene deposits, with complete faunistic lists and with detailed explanation of the stratigraphical arrangements. The value of this book is enhanced by a series of chronological tables for various localities, several sketches, pictures of localities, as well as indexes of localities and species.

  • Soil Erosion

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • D. Zachar
    • English

  • Seepage Hydraulics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • G. Kovács
    • English

  • Morphometry of Drainage Basins

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • I. Zavoianu
    • English
    The book describes the drainage basin as a system unit resulting from the interaction between runoff and topography - a lengthy process of evolution that occurs according to well-defined laws. It aims not to quantify the agents which created the present forms, but to analyse the forms themselves in order to establish the laws according to which they develop, and to define a series of inter-relationships between morphometrical parameters and river discharge.

  • Thermal Methods of Petroleum Production

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25
    • N.K. Baibakov + 2 more
    • English
    Until now, information on Russian enhanced oil recovery (EOR) research work and field experience has not been available in English. This work, originally published in Russian, describes in a systematic manner recent Russian laboratory and field research, as well as industrial experience of applying thermal EOR methods in different Russian oil fields - some with high viscosity crudes and others with low viscosity. It is written by two leading Russian specialists, and contains 116 diagrams (curves, graphs, designs), and 36 tables (research data).The book will be valuable to petroleum companies throughout the world, oil field servicing companies, petroleum engineering consultants, and libraries of technical institutes and universities.

  • Earth's Magnetosphere

    Formed by the Low-Latitude Boundary Layer
    • 1st Edition
    • Walter Heikkila
    • English
    The author argues that, after five decades of debate about the interactive of solar wind with the magnetosphere, it is time to get back to basics. Starting with Newton's law, this book also examines Maxwell's equations and subsidiary equations such as continuity, constitutive relations and the Lorentz transformation; Helmholtz' theorem, and Poynting's theorem, among other methods for understanding this interaction.

  • Extractive Metallurgy of Copper

    • 5th Edition
    • Mark E. Schlesinger + 2 more
    • English
    This multi-author new edition revises and updates the classic reference by William G. Davenport et al (winner of, among other awards, the 2003 AIME Mineral Industry Educator of the Year Award "for inspiring students in the pursuit of clarity"), providing fully updated coverage of the copper production process, encompassing topics as diverse as environmental technology for wind and solar energy transmission, treatment of waste by-products, and recycling of electronic scrap for potential alternative technology implementation. The authors examine industrially grounded treatments of process fundamentals and the beneficiation of raw materials, smelting and converting, hydrometallurgical processes, and refining technology for a mine-to-market perspective - from primary and secondary raw materials extraction to shipping of rod or billet to customers. The modern coverage of the work includes bath smelting processes such as Ausmelt and Isasmelt, which have become state-of-the-art in sulfide concentrate smelting and converting.

  • Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research

    A New Outlook on these Nanomaterials
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English
    The aim of this comprehenvise book is to present the most important results achieved in the research of the clay minerals palygorskite and sepiolite. Palygorskite and sepiolite have found to be useful in a huge variety of industrial and medical applications. As a result, research on these clays has been intensified during the last two decades, and important advances in their characterization have been made. The book contains contributions from distinguished scientists in the field.

  • Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology

    A Closer Look
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • J. Ehlers + 2 more
    • English
    The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms and the extent of the respective ice sheets. The locations of key sites are included. The information is presented in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a Geographical Information System (GIS) such as ArcView or ArcGIS. The accompanying text supplies the information on how the data were obtained (geomorphology, geological mapping, air photograph evaluation, satellite imagery), how the features were dated (14C, TL, relative stratigraphy) and how reliable they are supposed to be. All references to the underlying basic publications are included. Where controversial interpretations are possible e.g. in Siberia or Tibet, this is pointed out. As a result, the information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide will be much improved and supplied in a uniform digital format.The information on the glacial limits is compiled in digital form by the coordinators of the project, and is available for download at: http://booksite.else...

  • Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 100
    • Daniel S. Wilks
    • English
    Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Third Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines. In this new edition, what was a single chapter on multivariate statistics has been expanded to a full six chapters on this important topic. Other chapters have also been revised and cover exploratory data analysis, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, statistical weather forecasting, forecast verification, and time series analysis. There is now an expanded treatment of resampling tests and key analysis techniques, an updated discussion on ensemble forecasting, and a detailed chapter on forecast verification. In addition, the book includes new sections on maximum likelihood and on statistical simulation and contains current references to original research. Students will benefit from pedagogical features including worked examples, end-of-chapter exercises with separate solutions, and numerous illustrations and equations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the atmospheric sciences, including meteorology, climatology, and other geophysical disciplines.

  • Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids

    • 1st Edition
    • Johannes Fink
    • English
    Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids is a comprehensive manual that provides end users with information about oil field chemicals, such as drilling muds, corrosion and scale inhibitors, gelling agents and bacterial control. This book is an extension and update of Oil Field Chemicals published in 2003, and it presents a compilation of materials from literature and patents, arranged according to applications and the way a typical job is practiced. The text is composed of 23 chapters that cover oil field chemicals arranged according to their use. Each chapter follows a uniform template, starting with a brief overview of the chemical followed by reviews, monomers, polymerization, and fabrication. The different aspects of application, including safety and environmental impacts, for each chemical are also discussed throughout the chapters. The text also includes handy indices for trade names, acronyms and chemicals. Petroleum, production, drilling, completion, and operations engineers and managers will find this book invaluable for project management and production. Non-experts and students in petroleum engineering will also find this reference useful.

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