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Landscape Evolution of Continental-Scale River Systems
A Case Study of North America's Pre-Pleistocene Bell River Basin
Häftad, 2024
1534 kr
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Landscape Evolution of Continental-Scale River Systems: A Case Study of North America's Pre-Pleistocene Bell River Basin provides a detailed case study and complete analysis of this continental-scale North American paleo-river system. The book uses detrital zircon provenance data to link incision …
Catchment Dynamics and River Processes
Inbunden, 2005
2060 kr
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Maria Sala introduced experimental and field-based studies on soil and fluvial processes in Spain during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Research on this broad topic has grown remarkably worldwide since then. This title shows some of these advances and documents the latest research, although with a …
Peatlands
Evolution and Records of Environmental and Climate Changes
Av I.P. Martini, A. Martinez Cortizas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
3131 kr
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In the past two decades there has been considerable work on global climatic change and its effect on the ecosphere, as well as on local and global environmental changes triggered by human activities. From the tropics to the Arctic, peatlands have developed under various geological conditions, and …
Mountains: Witnesses of Global Changes
Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: SHARE-Asia Project
Av Renato Baudo, Gianni Tartari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1675 kr
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From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet. Only through distribution of meteoclimatic and atmospheric composition monitoring points in mountain regions, coupled with modelling simulations, will we be able …
Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America
Special Volumes of Geomorphology
Av Edgardo Latrubesse, Edgardo M. Latrubesse
Inbunden, 2009
1432 kr
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The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as …
The Changing Alpine Treeline
The Example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA
Av David R. Butler, George P. Malanson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2047 kr
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The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. Alpine tundra is an island biome and its ecotone with forest is subject to change, and like oceanic islands, …
Geomorphological Mapping
Methods and Applications
Av Mike J. Smith, James S. Griffiths m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1919 kr
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Geomorphological Mapping: a professional handbook of techniques and applications is a new book targeted at academics and practitioners who use, or wish to utilise, geomorphological mapping within their work. Synthesising for the first time an historical perspective to geomorphological mapping, …
The Western Alps, from Rift to Passive Margin to Orogenic Belt
An Integrated Geoscience Overview
Av Pierre-Charles de Graciansky, David G. Roberts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1380 kr
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The Western Alps, from Rift to Passive Margin to Orogenic Belt addresses�the evolution of the Alpine fold belt�for the first time in the�English language. It builds on classical Alpine geological studies made since the start of the 19th century by combining that research with modern results …
Kenya: A Natural Outlook
Geo-Environmental Resources and Hazards
Inbunden, 2013
1560 kr
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Kenya is a thriving country in East Africa: its economy is largely based on the natural environment that frames the tourism sector, mainly through safaris and holidays on the coast. The natural environment also underpins the second largest industry: agriculture. Kenya's social, technological, and …
Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau
Inbunden, 2014
1526 kr
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Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau is a comprehensive and well-illustrated multi-disciplinary research work that analyzes the human and physical aspects of the active faults and large-magnitude earthquakes since ancient times on the Iranian Plateau. The long-term …
Principles and Dynamics of the Critical Zone
Av John Giardino, Chris Houser
Inbunden, 2015
1560 kr
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Principles and Dynamics of the Critical Zone is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and an essential tool for researchers developing cutting-edge proposals. It provides a process-based description of the Critical Zone, a place that The National Research Council (2001) …
Geomorphological Fieldwork
Inbunden, 2014
1560 kr
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Geomorphological Fieldwork addresses a topic that always remains popular within the geosciences and environmental science. More specifically, the volume conveys a growing legacy of field-based learning for young geomorphologists that can be used as a student book for field-based university courses …
Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update
Av Charles G. Oviatt, John F. Shroder
Inbunden, 2016
1560 kr
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Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update showcases new information and interpretations about this important lake in the North American Great Basin, presenting a relatively complete summary of the evolving scientific ideas about the Pleistocene lake. A comprehensive book on Lake Bonneville has not been …
Mountain Ice and Water
Investigations of the Hydrologic Cycle in Alpine Environments
Av John F. Shroder, Gregory B Greenwood
Inbunden, 2016
1560 kr
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Mountain Ice and Water: Investigations of the Hydrologic Cycle in Alpine Environments is a new volume of papers reviewed and edited by John Shroder, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and Greg Greenwood, Director of the Mountain Research …
Neotectonism in the Indian Subcontinent
Landscape Evolution
Av K.S. Valdiya, Jaishri Sanwal
Häftad, 2017
1791 kr
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An erudite work on tectonic resurgence in Late Quaternary time of the Indian subcontinent embracing India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh, Neotectonism in the Indian Subcontinent dwells on the causes and consequences of tectonic events that fashioned the landscape of a land characterized …
Remote Sensing of Geomorphology
Av Paolo Tarolli, Simon M. Mudd
Häftad, 2020
1739 kr
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Remote Sensing of Geomorphology, Volume 23, discusses the new range of remote-sensing techniques (lidar, structure from motion photogrammetry, advanced satellite platforms) that has led to a dramatic increase in terrain information, and as such provided new opportunities for a better understanding …
