Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence
    New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence
    Editor Uri Schattner
    ISBN 978-953-307-594-5
    352 pages, August, 2011
    Downloads: 1695
    Ocean closure involves a variety of converging tectonic processes that reshape shrinking basins, their adjacent margins and the entire earth underneath. Following continental breakup, margin formation and sediment accumulation, tectonics normally rel ...
  • Chemistry, Emission Control, Radioactive Pollution and Indoor Air Quality
    Chemistry, Emission Control, Radioactive Pollution and Indoor Air Quality
    Editor Nicolas Mazzeo
    ISBN 978-953-307-316-3
    680 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 1938
    The atmosphere may be our most precious resource. Accordingly, the balance between its use and protection is a high priority for our civilization. While many of us would consider air pollution to be an issue that the modern world has resolved to a gr ...
  • New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - General Problems, Sedimentary Basins and Island Arcs
    New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - General Problems, Sedimentary Basins and Island Arcs
    Editor Evgenii V. Sharkov
    ISBN 978-953-307-595-2
    350 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 1761
    This book is devoted to different aspects of tectonic research. Syntheses of recent and earlier works, combined with new results and interpretations, are presented in this book for diverse tectonic settings. Most of the chapters include up-to-date ma ...
  • Air Quality Monitoring, Assessment and Management
    Air Quality Monitoring, Assessment and Management
    Editor Nicolás A. Mazzeo
    ISBN 978-953-307-317-0
    378 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 1433
    Human beings need to breathe oxygen diluted in certain quantity of inert gas for living. In the atmosphere, there is a gas mixture of, mainly, oxygen and nitrogen, in appropriate proportions. However, the air also contains other gases, vapours and ae ...
  • Air Quality-Models and Applications
    Air Quality-Models and Applications
    Editor Nicolas Mazzeo
    ISBN 978-953-307-307-1
    364 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 1881
    Air pollution has been a major transboundary problem and a matter of global concern for decades. High concentrations of different air pollutants are particularly harmful to large cities residents, where numerous anthropogenic activities strongly infl ...
  • Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts
    Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts
    Editor Anthony Lupo
    ISBN 978-953-307-238-8
    616 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 1449
    This book represents recent research on tropical cyclones and their impact, and a wide range of topics are covered. An updated global climatology is presented, including the global occurrence of tropical cyclones and the terrestrial factors that may ...
  • Developments in Hydraulic Conductivity Research
    Developments in Hydraulic Conductivity Research
    Editor Oagile Dikinya
    ISBN 978-953-307-470-2
    270 pages, February, 2011
    Downloads: 2945
    This book provides the state of the art of the investigation and the in-depth analysis of hydraulic conductivity from the theoretical to semi-empirical models perspective as well as policy development associated with management of land resources eman ...
  • Tectonics
    Tectonics
    Editor Damien Closson
    ISBN 978-953-307-545-7
    358 pages, February, 2011
    Downloads: 8176
    The term tectonics refers to the study dealing with the forces and displacements that have operated to create structures within the lithosphere. The deformations affecting the Earth's crust are result of the release and the redistribution of energy f ...