Volcanology & seismology books

1320 books were found.

Active Tectonics: Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape

Active Tectonics: Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape...

Author: Nicholas Pinter ,  Nicholas Pinter
ISBN: 9780130882301
Format: Paperback
$164.21

This text explains the study of active tectonics (earthquakes in the present and recent past). It explores the...  Read More >>

Earthquake!: A Post-biblical View

Earthquake!: A Post-biblical View

Author: Lebbeus Woods
ISBN: 9783211836439
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Presents a summary of design research exploring the implications of earthquake for architecture and urban form in...  Read More >>

Volcanic Processes: Mechanisms in Material Transport

Volcanic Processes: Mechanisms in Material Transport...

Author: Flavio Dobran
ISBN: 9780306466250
Format: Hardback
$382.80

The inner core consists mostly of iron and its temperature is about 5000 kelvin, whereas the liquid outer core is...  Read More >>

Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano

Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano

Author: Alwyn Scarth
ISBN: 9780300091236
Format: Paperback
$36.95

This book describes fifteen of the most remarkable volcanic eruptions across the centuries along with first hand...  Read More >>

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Regional Wave Propagation and Crustal Structure

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty:...

Author: H.J. Patton ,  Brian J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9783764365509
Format: Paperback
$171.47

Regional seismograms are dominated by the phases Pn, Pg, Sn, and Lg. The seismic phase Sn is a high-frequency shear-wave...  Read More >>

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Surface Waves

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty:...

Author: Anatoli L. Levshin ,  Michael Ritzwoller
ISBN: 9783764365516
Format: Paperback
$145.07

Reprint from Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Volume 158 (2001), No. 8  Read More >>

California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, and the Politics of Hazard Mitigation

California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, and the Politics...

Author: Carl-Henry Geschwind
ISBN: 9780801865961
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California...  Read More >>

Of Poles and Zeros: Fundamentals of Digital Seismology

Of Poles and Zeros: Fundamentals of Digital Seismology...

Author: F. Scherbaum
ISBN: 9780792368359
Format: Paperback
$105.60

It covers the basic theory of linear systems, the design and analysis of simple digital filters, the effect of sampling...  Read More >>

Maunten Paia: The Effects of Volcanic Eruptions on People and the Environment: the 1994 Rabaul Eruption: a Case Study

Maunten Paia: The Effects of Volcanic Eruptions on People...

Author: C. Lentfer
ISBN: 9781875855537
Format: Paperback
$20.96

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Continental Reactivation and Reworking

Continental Reactivation and Reworking

Author: J. Miller ,  M. Hand
ISBN: 9781862390805
Format: Hardback
$528.00

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Stochastic Structural Dynamics in Earthquake Engineering

Stochastic Structural Dynamics in Earthquake Engineering...

Author: G.D. Manolis ,  P.K. Koliopoulos (Technical Institute, Serres, Greece)
ISBN: 9781853128516
Format: Mixed media product
$395.89

Designed as both a textbook and a reference volume, this title applies stochastic structural dynamics to typical...  Read More >>

Volcaniclastic Sedimentation in Lacustrine Settings

Volcaniclastic Sedimentation in Lacustrine Settings...

Author: James D. L. White (University of Otago) ,  N. R. Riggs (Northern Arizona University)
ISBN: 9780632058471
Format: Paperback
$269.95

This volume presents a unique compendium of papers assessing the effects of volcanism on lakes, as recorded by the...  Read More >>

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Source Location

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty:...

Author: Frode Ringdal ,  Brian L.N. Kennett
ISBN: 9783764365349
Format: Paperback
$314.16

The papers in this volume cover many aspects of seismic event location, including the development of algorithms...  Read More >>

Ore Deposits and Mantle Plumes

Ore Deposits and Mantle Plumes

Author: Franco Pirajno
ISBN: 9780412811401
Format: Hardback
$456.95

PERTH Western Australia March 2000 Increasingly explorationists are seeking to find new ore deposits in poorly prospected...  Read More >>

Induced Earthquakes

Induced Earthquakes

Author: S.K. Guha
ISBN: 9780412498701
Format: Hardback
$352.95

Deals with various kinds of induced phenomena such as water-reservoirs, petroleum and gas extraction, volcanic eruptions,...  Read More >>

Italian Volcanoes

Italian Volcanoes

Author: Christopher J. Kilburn ,  Bill McGuire
ISBN: 9781903544044
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Richly illustrated with maps and photographs, this guide is ideal for all geologists, amateur and professional,...  Read More >>

Microscopic and Macroscopic Simulation: Towards Predictive Modelling of the Earthquake Process

Microscopic and Macroscopic Simulation: Towards Predictive...

Author: Peter Mora ,  Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura
ISBN: 9783764365035
Format: Paperback
$211.07

Numerical simulation models for the complete earthquake process represent a new thrust in earthquake science that...  Read More >>

Monte Carlo Simulation

Monte Carlo Simulation

Author: G.I. Schueller ,  P.D. Spanos
ISBN: 9789058091888
Format: Hardback
$712.67

This text contains essays which deal with topics relating to simulation, ranging from weight controlled algorithms...  Read More >>

Earthquake Engineering Frontiers in the New Millennium

Earthquake Engineering Frontiers in the New Millennium...

Author: Y.X. Hu ,  B.F. Spencer
ISBN: 9789026518522
Format: Hardback
$173.00

This volume comprises papers presented at the China-US Millennium Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, held in Beijing,...  Read More >>

Dynamic Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design

Dynamic Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design

Author: Dobuku Gakkai
ISBN: 9789054102939
Format: Hardback
$368.00

The third volume in this series, this deals with dams which generate electricity and maintain the natural resources...  Read More >>

Seismic Isolation for Earthquake-resistant Structures

Seismic Isolation for Earthquake-resistant Structures...

Author: P. Komodromos
ISBN: 9781853128035
Format: Hardback
$300.15

This volume explores seismic isolation as an alternative and performance-based design approach to minimize earthquake...  Read More >>

Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior

Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in...

Author: Roman Teisseyre (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) ,  Eugeniusz Majewski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
ISBN: 9780126851854
Format: Hardback
$388.08

What triggers earthquakes? There are a plethora of research theories examining this important societal question....  Read More >>

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