(Išleidimo metai: 30-Dec-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198835929)
Learning to draw field sketches is an essential task for geologists, however it is often overlooked. This book presents simple techniques, useful tips and detailed examples to teach geologists how to draw rocks successfully. Field sketches are the be...Daugiau...
The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Nov-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198828518)
A number of extreme weather events have struck the Northern Hemisphere in recent years, from scorching heatwaves to desperately cold winters, and from floods and storms to droughts and wildfires. These events have fuelled intense discussions in scien...Daugiau...
A witty, irreverent guide to the birth, development, and state-of-the-art of one of the most important theories in Earth Science. The book explains how modern plate tectonics accounts for phenomena such as great earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic...Daugiau...
This book is based on a selection of presentations given at the very successful symposium Multiphase Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols held at the 2017 ACS Fall meeting and attended by a large number of researchers. This symposium provided an excel...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Oct-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198737520)
Since the advent of agriculture approximately 12,000 years ago, human activity has created a unique set of ecosystems. However, the recent development of world markets, rapid technological advances, and other changes to farming practices have led to...Daugiau...
Since the advent of agriculture approximately 12,000 years ago, human activity has created a unique set of ecosystems. However, the recent development of world markets, rapid technological advances, and other changes to farming practices have led to...Daugiau...
Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Jun-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN-13: 9780190601928)
Now thoroughly revised in its third edition, Structural Geology: Principles, Concepts, and Problems incorporates a balanced and broad state-of the-science presentation that combines extensive full-color illustrations with clear, lively writi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Jun-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198834632)
The British have always been obsessed by the weather. Thomas Hornsby, who founded the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1772, began weather observations at the site. They continue daily to this day, unbroken since 14 November 1813, the longest conti...Daugiau...
This book discusses in straightforward terms why climate changes, how it has changed naturally before the industrial revolution made humans important, and how it has changed since then. It compares the scale and rapidity of variations in pre-industri...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-May-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198779308)
Changing concentrations of greenhouse gasses are key to our changing climate. Biogochemical Cycles and Climate examines the interaction of the main biogeochemical cycles of the earth with the physics of climate from the perspective of the e...Daugiau...
This book describes in simple terms a new paradigm for understanding the atmosphere, that goes beyond just weather and climate. Veering from the popular expression that the climate is what you expect, the weather is what you get, this book take...Daugiau...
There has been a recent proliferation in the number of undergraduate and graduate programs in sustainability-related areas1, but the number of text books that can serve these new curricula is extremely limited. The objective of the proposed book is...Daugiau...
A modern presentation of granitic rocks, translated into English and updated from the original French edition. Mineralogical, petrological, structural, and economical aspects are developed in a succession. Chapters contain special info boxes discus...Daugiau...
When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climates vicissitudes. Anthony...Daugiau...