Economic geology books

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Riverbank Filtration for Water Security in Desert Countries

Riverbank Filtration for Water Security in Desert Countries...

Author: Chittaranjan Ray ,  Mohamed Shamrukh
ISBN: 9789400700390
Format: Paperback
$237.47

Riverbank filtration is a low cost, yet efficient water treatment technology. Water filtration can be successfully...  Read More >>

Riverbank Filtration for Water Security in Desert Countries

Riverbank Filtration for Water Security in Desert Countries...

Author: Chittaranjan Ray ,  Mohamed Shamrukh
ISBN: 9789400700253
Format: Hardback
$498.96

Riverbank filtration is a low cost, yet efficient water treatment technology. Water filtration can be successfully...  Read More >>

Cavity Expansion Methods in Geomechanics

Cavity Expansion Methods in Geomechanics

Author: Hai-Sui Yu
ISBN: 9789048140237
Format: Paperback
$551.76

Cavity expansion theory is a simple theory that has found many applications in geotechnical engineering. To facilitate...  Read More >>

Object-Based Image Analysis and Treaty Verification: New Approaches in Remote Sensing - Applied to Nuclear Facilities in Iran

Object-Based Image Analysis and Treaty Verification:...

Author: Sven Nussbaum ,  Gunter Menz
ISBN: 9789048177776
Format: Paperback
$340.56

Today, satellite imagery analysis is an integral part of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) safeguards...  Read More >>

Ocean Energy: Tide and Tidal Power

Ocean Energy: Tide and Tidal Power

Author: R. H. Charlier ,  Charles W. Finkl
ISBN: 9783642096754
Format: Paperback
$498.96

The book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing...  Read More >>

Mining and Rock Construction Technology Desk Reference: Rock Mechanics, Drilling & Blasting

Mining and Rock Construction Technology Desk Reference:...

Author: Agne Rustan ,  Claude Cunningham
ISBN: 9780415600439
Format: Hardback
$315.00

A comprehensive and illustrated desk reference with terms, definitions, explanations, abbreviations, tradenames,...  Read More >>

Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere from Space

Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere from Space

Author: Alexander Kokhanovsky ,  Gerrit de Leeuw
ISBN: 9783642104114
Format: Hardback
$446.16

This book examines recent results and trends in optical remote sensing from satellites. It clearly demonstrates...  Read More >>

Flood Warning, Forecasting and Emergency Response

Flood Warning, Forecasting and Emergency Response

Author: Kevin Sene
ISBN: 9783642096655
Format: Paperback
$551.76

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive summary of various topics in flood warning, forecasting and emergency...  Read More >>

Sinkholes and Subsidence: Karst and Cavernous Rocks in Engineering and Construction

Sinkholes and Subsidence: Karst and Cavernous Rocks...

Author: Tony Waltham ,  Fred G. Bell
ISBN: 9783642058516
Format: Paperback
$630.96

""Sinkholes and Subsidence"" provides a twenty-first century account of how the various subsidence features in...  Read More >>

A Window on the Future of Geodesy: Proceedings of the International Association of Geodesy. IAG General Assembly, Sapporo, Japan June 30 - July 11, 2003

A Window on the Future of Geodesy: Proceedings of the...

Author: Fernando Sansò
ISBN: 9783642063190
Format: Paperback
$815.76

Every four years the International Association of Geodesy meets at the IUGG General Assembly and this has always...  Read More >>

Pyrometamorphism

Pyrometamorphism

Author: Rodney Grapes
ISBN: 9783642155871
Format: Hardback
$472.56

1000 °C) and low pressures (< 2 kb) and typically results in the formation of ""burnt"" and fused rocks termed buchites,...  Read More >>

Basic Coastal Engineering

Basic Coastal Engineering

Author: Robert M. Sorensen
ISBN: 9781441936103
Format: Paperback
$393.36

The second edition (1997) of this text was a completely rewritten version of the original text Basic Coastal Engineering...  Read More >>

Geology and Ecosystems

Geology and Ecosystems

Author: Igor S. Zektser ,  Brian Marker
ISBN: 9781441939821
Format: Paperback
$446.16

This book was prepared for publication by an International Working Group of experts under the auspices of COGEOENVIRONMENT...  Read More >>

Observing Systems for Atmospheric Composition: Satellite, Aircraft, Sensor Web and Ground-Based Observational Methods and Strategies

Observing Systems for Atmospheric Composition: Satellite,...

Author: Guido Visconti ,  Pietro Di Carlo
ISBN: 9781441921475
Format: Paperback
$419.76

One challenge in atmospheric chemistry is understanding the intercontinental transport and transformation of gases...  Read More >>

The Fisheries Co-management Experience: Accomplishments, Challenges and Prospects

The Fisheries Co-management Experience: Accomplishments,...

Author: Douglas Clyde Wilson ,  Jesper Raakjaer Nielsen
ISBN: 9789048163441
Format: Paperback
$578.16

For two decades the idea of governments and fishers working together to manage fisheries has been advocated, questioned,...  Read More >>

Remediation of Abandoned Surface Coal Mining Sites: A NATO-Project

Remediation of Abandoned Surface Coal Mining Sites:...

Author: Alena Mudroch ,  Ulrich Stottmeister
ISBN: 9783642076411
Format: Paperback
$393.36

This report was prepared to provide guidance to those who are responsible for the prevention of environmental effects...  Read More >>

Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Civil Engineering Disaster Mitigation Activities - Implementing Millennium Development Goals

Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Civil Engineering Disaster...

Author: A. Tugrul Tankut
ISBN: 9789048184958
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Earthquakes and tsunamis cannot be prevented, but measures can be taken to minimize their damage. In this book,...  Read More >>

Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research Frontiers and Future Challenges

Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research...

Author: Daniel Sui
ISBN: 9789048178483
Format: Paperback
$604.56

It is good to see that a great deal of new thought and research continues to flow from that initial research agenda,...  Read More >>

Shear Localization in Granular Bodies with Micro-Polar Hypoplasticity

Shear Localization in Granular Bodies with Micro-Polar...

Author: J. Tejchman
ISBN: 9783642089480
Format: Paperback
$419.76

This book includes a numerical investigation of shear localization in granular materials within micro-polar hypoplasticity,...  Read More >>

The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Revisited

The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Revisited

Author: Luiz Mendes-Victor ,  Carlos Sousa Oliveira
ISBN: 9789048179329
Format: Paperback
$578.16

The 1755 earthquake and tsunami were influential not only in Portugal but in all European and North African countries...  Read More >>

Mining Equipment Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety

Mining Equipment Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety...

Author: Balbir S. Dhillon
ISBN: 9781849967709
Format: Paperback
$393.36

The mining industry makes use of various types of complex and sophisticated equipment, for which reliability, maintainability...  Read More >>

Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector

Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector

Author: Asit K. Biswas ,  Cecilia Tortajada
ISBN: 9783642072079
Format: Paperback
$366.96

The evaluation indicated that except for the UN Water Conference, held in Argentina in 1977, the impacts of the...  Read More >>

Satellite Radar Interferometry: Subsidence Monitoring Techniques

Satellite Radar Interferometry: Subsidence Monitoring...

Author: V. B. H. (Gini) Ketelaar
ISBN: 9789048181254
Format: Paperback
$366.96

This book investigates the applicability of satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) for deformation monitoring. The...  Read More >>

Research Trends in Geographic Information Science

Research Trends in Geographic Information Science

Author: Gerhard Navratil
ISBN: 9783642099977
Format: Paperback
$366.96

In June/July 2008 the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology organized...  Read More >>

Trends in Continuum Mechanics of Porous Media

Trends in Continuum Mechanics of Porous Media

Author: Reint de Boer
ISBN: 9789048168064
Format: Paperback
$393.36

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