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Earth Sciences
Edited by Imran Ahmad Dar, ISBN 978-953-307-861-8, Hard cover, 648 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: February 03, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license, in subject Environmental Sciences
DOI: 10.5772/1132
The studies of Earth's history and of the physical and chemical properties of the substances that make up our planet, are of great significance to our understanding both of its past and its future. The geological and other environmental processes on Earth and the composition of the planet are of vital importance in locating and harnessing its resources. This book is primarily written for research scholars, geologists, civil engineers, mining engineers, and environmentalists. Hopefully the text will be used by students, and it will continue to be of value to them throughout their subsequent professional and research careers. This does not mean to infer that the book was written solely or mainly with the student in mind. Indeed from the point of view of the researcher in Earth and Environmental Science it could be argued that this text contains more detail than he will require in his initial studies or research.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1The Expanding International Coal Market
- Chapter 2Weathering Indices for Assessment of Weathering Effect and Classification of Weathered Rocks: A Case Study from NE Turkey
- Chapter 3The Effectiveness of Petrified Wood as a Geobiological Portal to Increase Public Understanding of Geologic Time, Fossilization, and Evolution
- Chapter 4Debris Flow Phenomena: A Short Overview?
- Chapter 5Heat-Transfer-Model Analysis of the Thermal Effect of Intrusive Sills on Organic-Rich Host Rocks in Sedimentary Basins
- Chapter 6Submarine Mass Movements: Sedimentary Characterization and Controlling Factors
- Chapter 7Self-Organization of the Khibiny Alkaline Massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia)
- Chapter 8Seismic Imaging of Microblocks and Weak Zones in the Crust Beneath the Southeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau
- Chapter 9Advances and Challenges of Reservoir Characterization: A Review of the Current State-of-the-Art
- Chapter 10Mechanisms and Effective Prevention of Damage for Formations with Low-Porosity and Low-Permeability
- Chapter 11Application of Hagedoorn’s Plus-Minus Method to Hydrology Study
- Chapter 12Responses of River Deltas to Sea-Level and Supply Forcing: Autostratigraphic View
- Chapter 13Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Continental Convergent Margins
- Chapter 14The Thermogeographic Model in Paleogeography: Application of an Abiotic Model to a Plate Tectonic World
- Chapter 15Mesothermal Lode Gold Deposit Central Belt Peninsular Malaysia
- Chapter 16Computer Aided Ore Body Modelling and Mine Valuation
- Chapter 17Mud Volcano and Its Evolution
- Chapter 18Xujiaweizi Rift Lower Cretaceous Yingcheng Group Volcanic Sequence Stratigraphic Features
- Chapter 19Laser Altimetry: What Can Be Learned About Geology and Surface Processes from Detailed Topography
- Chapter 20Remote Predictive Mapping: An Approach for the Geological Mapping of Canada’s Arctic
- Chapter 21Monitoring of Heavy Metal Concentration in Groundwater of Mamundiyar Basin, India
- Chapter 22Age Dating of Middle-Distillate Fuels Released to the Subsurface Environment
- Chapter 23Geology and Geomorphology in Landscape Ecological Analysis for Forest Conservation and Hazard and Risk Assessment, Illustrated with Mexican Case Histories
- Chapter 24Radiolarian Age Constraints of Mid-Cretaceous Black Shales in Northern Tunisia
- Chapter 25Miogypsinid Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy from the Oligocene to Miocene Sedimentary Rocks in the Tethys Region
