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**Named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspecti…

Sea Ice: Physics and Remote Sensing addresses experiences acquired mainly in Canada by researchers in the fields of ice physics and growth history in …

Hydrodynamics of Time-Periodic Groundwater Flow introduces the emerging topic of periodic fluctuations in groundwater. While classical hydrology has o…

An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures. This book reviews the re…

Uncertainties are pervasive in natural hazards, and it is crucial to develop robust and meaningful approaches to characterize and communicate uncertai…

Microstructural Geochronology Geochronology techniques enable the study of geological evolution and environmental change over time. This volume integr…

The only book that offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date coverage of hydroacoustic ocean exploration, this work deals with the diagnostics of no…

This book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geo…

Sequence stratigraphy is a powerful tool for the prediction of depositional porosity and permeability, but does not account for the impact of diagenes…

Several scholars across the globe identified the present lack of high quality damage data as the main constraint to efficient risk mitigation. The nee…

Although we are seeing more weather and climate extremes, individual extreme events are very diverse and generalization of trends is difficult. For ex…

Understanding basin-fill evolution and the origin of stratal architectures has traditionally been based on studies of outcrops, well and seismic data,…

Adaptation is the poor cousin of the climate change challenge – the glamour of international debate is around global mitigation agreements, while the …

The Galápagos Islands are renown for their unique flora and fauna, inspiring Charles Darwin in the elaboration of his theory of evolution. Yet in his …

An invaluable reference that helps geologists recognize and differentiate the many types of natural fractures, induced fractures and artefacts found i…

Dawn­Dusk Asymmetries in Planetary Plasma Environments Dawn-dusk asymmetries are ubiquitous features of the plasma environment of many of the planets …

Based on an international symposium addressing a key issue in global development, this reference includes both the latest methodologies for and practi…

This comprehensive text focuses on the increasingly important issues of urban geochemical mapping with key coverage of the distribution and behaviour …

In a perspective of sustainable management, the balance between ecological dynamics, social and economic are now at the heart of ecological modeling a…

Deep Earth: Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core highlights recent advances and the latest views of the deep Earth from theoretical, exp…

Neotectonics involves the study of the motions and deformations of the Earth's crust that are current or recent in geologic time. The Mediterranean re…

The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes is a comprehensive volume that investigates the changes in the terrestrial water cycle …

The application of multibeam and sediment transport measurement technologies and the adoption of multi-faceted research methodologies have greatly adv…

As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social and political dimensions of climate, many non-specialists discover a need for information…

This book presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions. Erosion of biodiversity by …

With contributions from key researchers across the globe, and edited by internationally recognized leading academics, Gravel-bed Rivers: Processes and…

With clear, critical, and constructive surveys of key terms by leading researchers in the field, The Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition, rem…

The Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), focus of this special publication, is a prolific hydrocarbon region and both exploration and production activit…

The Alps, with their outstanding outcrop conditions, represent a superb natural laboratory for many geological processes, and have played a crucial ro…

The elucidation of the mechanisms and kinematics of shear zone deformation, at both local and regional scales, is the subject of a great deal of inter…

This book presents a comprehensive overview of relative fidelity preservation processing methods and their applications within the oil and gas sector.…

Water, energy and food are key resources to sustain life, and are the fundamental to national, regional and global economies. These three resources ar…

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is critical for remote sensing. It works day and night, in good weather or bad. Bistatic SAR is a new kind of SAR syste…

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the first longitudinal study of the downstream response of a major river to the establishment of a larg…

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environment…

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today. Since th…

Why do earthquakes happen? What properties control the dynamic rupture and what are the processes at play? Chapters in the present volume capture the …

GIS and Geocomputation for Water Resource Science and Engineering not only provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of geographic inf…

Subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. Understanding the dynamic…

This volume provides various examples and dimensions, chemical, biological, climatic, or related to extreme (hazards). It describes, by reciprocity, t…

The beginning of the new millennium has been particularly devastating in terms of natural disasters associated with tectonic plate boundaries, such as…

Dedicated to remote sensing images, from their acquisition to their use in various applications, this book covers the global lifecycle of images, incl…

Presents the theories and applications of determining the position of an object in space through the use of satellites As the importance of space reco…

This book provides a new look at the climatic history of the last 2.6 million years during the ice age, a time of extreme climatic fluctuations that h…

Complexity is an intrinsic property of natural systems. In the oceanic system, it is linked to many interactions with the atmosphere, geosphere and bi…