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  • Tsunamis and Earthquakes in Coastal Environments

    Significance and Restoration

    Edited by H. Tanaka, M. Spiske, V. Santiago-Fandino ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This monograph is a compilation of a number of research studies presented in fourteen chapters dealing with the impact and restoration of coastal environments that have been affected by earthquakes and tsunamis. The focus is mainly on rivers, estuaries, coastal lagoons, beaches, and related ecosystems. In addition to direct impact and response due to flooding and subsequent abrasion, this ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Volcanoes in Human History

    The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

    by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. HelensWhen the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as one hundred thousand people perished from the blast and ensuing famine. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    by Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    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 desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

    by Roger F. Robison ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history. Included are the people and places involved over the course of over 90 years of interconnected mining and sale of radium and uranium, finally ending in 1991 with ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans

    Edited by DanLing Tang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans is a comprehensive account of the basic concepts, theories, methods and applications used in ocean satellite remote sensing. The book provides a synthesis of various new ideas and theories and discusses a series of key research topics in oceanic manifestation of global changes as viewed from space. A variety of research methods used in the analysis and ... Read more

    $280.49 CAD

  • Landslide Science and Practice

    Volume 6: Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation

    Edited by Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti, Kyoji Sassa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the sixth: 1. Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning, 2. Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring, 3. Spatial ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Marine Fog: Challenges and Advancements in Observations, Modeling, and Forecasting

    Edited by Darko Koračin, Clive E. Dorman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume presents the history of marine fog research and applications, and discusses the physical processes leading to fog's formation, evolution, and dissipation. A special emphasis is on the challenges and advancements of fog observation and modeling as well as on efforts toward operational fog forecasting and linkages and feedbacks between marine fog and the environment. ... Read more

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  • Reef-Platform Coral Boulders

    Evidence for High-Energy Marine Inundation Events on Tropical Coastlines

    by James P Terry, A Y Annie Lau, Samuel Etienne ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The primary goal here is to present a treatise on the significance and value of coarse clastic carbonate sediments (i.e. large coral boulders) on tropical coastlines for understanding both modern and pre-historical (Holocene) high-magnitude marine inundation events. There has been a rapid groundswell of interest in large carbonate blocks on tropical coasts over the last decade, yet it is not ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences

    7th International Symposium

    Edited by Geoffroy Lamarche, Joshu Mountjoy, Suzanne Bull, Tom Hubble, Sebastian Krastel, Emily Lane, Aaron Micallef, Lorena Moscardelli, Christof Mueller, Ingo Pecher, Susanne Woelz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal implications. The volume captures the most recent and exciting scientific progress made in this research field.As the world’s climate and energy needs change, the conditions under which slope instability occurs and needs to be considered, are also changing. The science and ... Read more

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  • Origin and Formation of Coastal Boulder Deposits at Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, Western Ireland

    by Wibke Erdmann, Dieter Kelletat, Anja Scheffers, Simon K. Haslett ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents geomorphological and sedimentological aspects of Holocene boulder ridges along the coastline of western Ireland (the Aran Islands and Galway Bay). Given these boulders’ size, extent and altitude, they are among the most spectacular deposits moved by marine forces worldwide and have challenged researchers to solve their enigmatic history. In particular, the question of how their ... Read more

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  • Modeling with Digital Ocean and Digital Coast

    Edited by Xin Zhang, Lei Wang, Xiaoyi Jiang, Changming Zhu ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions. As a new research domain of Digital Earth, it covers the latest scientific and technical advances, from the acquisition and integration of observational data, ocean spatio-temporal analysis and coastal flood ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD