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Earth and Environmental Sciences

Edited by: Imran Ahmad Dar and Mithas Ahmad Dar

ISBN 978-953-307-468-9, Hard cover, 630 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: December 2011
Subject: Environmental Sciences

We are increasingly faced with environmental problems and required to make important decisions. In many cases an understanding of one or more geologic processes is essential to finding the appropriate solution. Earth and Environmental Sciences are by their very nature a dynamic field in which new issues continue to arise and old ones often evolve. The principal aim of this book is to present the reader with a broad overview of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Hopefully, this recent research will provide the reader with a useful foundation for discussing and evaluating specific environmental issues, as well as for developing ideas for problem solving. The book has been divided into nine sections; Geology, Geochemistry, Seismology, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Mineralogy, Soil, Remote Sensing and Environmental Sciences.

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Table of Contents

1. Geophysics and Wine in New Zealand
   Stephen P. Imre and Jeffrey L. Mauk
   104 views, 52 downloads
   
2. Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage in Mexico: A First Approximation
   Oscar Jiménez, Moisés Dávila, Vicente Arévalo, Erik Medina and Reyna Castro
   200 views, 66 downloads
   
3. Late Proterozoic – Paleozoic Geology of the Golan Heights and Its Relation to the Surrounding Arabian Platform
   Miki Meiler, Moshe Reshef and Haim Shulman
   132 views, 61 downloads
   
4. Geology for Tomorrow's Society: Some Nordic Perspectives
   Morten Smelror
   117 views, 35 downloads
   
5. Geology and Geotectonic Setting of the Basement Complex Rocks in South Western Nigeria: Implications on Provenance and Evolution
   Akindele O. Oyinloye
   141 views, 180 downloads
   
6. The Organic-Rich and Siliceous Bahloul Formation: Environmental Evolution Using Facies Analysis and Sr/Ca & Mn Chemostratigraphy, Bargou Area, Tunisia
   Mohamed Soua, Hela Fakhfakh-Ben Jemia, Dalila Zaghbib-Turki, Jalel Smaoui, Mohsen Layeb, Moncef Saidi and Mohamed Moncef Turki
   128 views, 55 downloads
   
7. Petrography, Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Late-Stage Granites: An Example from the Glen Eden Area, New South Wales, Australia
   A. K. Somarin
   79 views, 36 downloads
   
8. Seismic Illumination Analysis with One-Way Wave Propagators Coupled with Reflection/Transmission Coefficients in 3D Complex Media
   Weijia Sun, Li-Yun Fu, Wei Wei and Binzhong Zhou
   90 views, 42 downloads
   
9. Seismic Ground Motion Amplifications Estimated by Means of Spectral Ratio Techniques: Examples for Different Geological and Morphological Settings
   M. Massa, S. Lovati, S. Marzorati and P. Augliera
   114 views, 62 downloads
   
10. Slope Dependent Morphometric Analysis as a Tool Contributing to Reconstruction of Volcano Evolution
    Veronika Kopačková, Vladislav Rapprich, Jiří Šebesta and Kateřina Zelenkova
    174 views, 103 downloads
    
11. Beneficiation of Talc Ore
    Mahmoud M. Ahmed, Galal A. Ibrahim and Mohamed M.A. Hassan
    113 views, 80 downloads
    
12. Water Resources Assessment for Karst Aquifer Conditioned River Basins: Conceptual Balance Model Results and Comparison with Experimental Environmental Tracers Evidences
    Antonia Longobardi, Albina Cuomo, Domenico Guida and Paolo Villani
    120 views, 44 downloads
    
13. Fundamental Approach in Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport Modelling Using the Finite Difference Method
    M.U. Igboekwe and C. Amos-Uhegbu
    125 views, 69 downloads
    
14. Deposits from the Glacial Age at Lake Baikal
    N.I. Akulov and M.N. Rubtsova
    95 views, 49 downloads
    
15. Application of Illite- and Kaolinite-Rich Clays in the Synthesis of Zeolites for Wastewater Treatment
    Carlos Alberto Ríos Reyes and Luz Yolanda Vargas Fiallo
    154 views, 77 downloads
    
16. Natural Radioactive Isotopes in Water in Relation with Geology and Hydrological Investigations in the Territory of Luxembourg
    Zornitza Tosheva, Harald Hofmann and Antoine Kies
    106 views, 47 downloads
    
17. Carbonate-Hosted Base Metal Deposits
    Fred Kamona
    122 views, 87 downloads
    
18. Simulation of Tunnel Surrounding Rock Mass in Porous Medium with Hydraulic Conductivity Tensor
    Lin-Chong Huang and Cui-Ying Zhou
    123 views, 58 downloads
    
19. Soil Contamination by Trace Metals: Geochemical Behaviour as an Element of Risk Assessment
    Monika Zovko and Marija Romic
    124 views, 94 downloads
    
20. Evaluation of Soil Hydraulic Parameters in Soils and Land Use Change
    Fereshte Haghighi, Mirmasoud Kheirkhah and Bahram Saghafian
    121 views, 79 downloads
    
21. Integration of Satellite Imagery, Geology and Geophysical Data
    Andreas Laake
    133 views, 108 downloads
    
22. Climate History and Early Peopling of Siberia
    Jiří Chlachula
    156 views, 60 downloads
    
23. Multivariate Analysis Techniques in Environmental Science
    Mohammad Ali Zare Chahouki
    168 views, 129 downloads
    
24. Accumulation of Bio Debris and Its Relation with the Underwater Environment in the Estuary of Itanhaém River, São Paulo State
    Fresia Ricardi Branco, Sueli Yoshinaga Pereira, Fabio Cardinale Branco and Paulo R. Brum Pereira
    104 views, 34 downloads
    
25. The Permo-Triassic Tetrapod Faunal Diversity in the Italian Southern Alps
    Marco Avanzini, Massimo Bernardi and Umberto Nicosia
    155 views, 70 downloads
    
26. Genomics of Bacteria from an Ancient Marine Origin: Clues to Survival in an Oligotrophic Environment
    Luis David Alcaraz, Varinia López-Ramírez, Alejandra Moreno-Letelier, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Valeria Souza and Gabriela Olmedo-Alvarez
    281 views, 55 downloads