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  • Alfabetização cartográfica
    Alexandrino da Costa Oliveira
    Os saberes da Geografia são de extrema importância na formação de cidadãos, para a participação de forma crítica e colaborativa e também para a construção de uma sociedade mais justa e igualitária.A cartografia é um componente curricular a ser trabalhado pelos professores que atuam com ensino de geografia nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental, bem como para os alunos, pois ...
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    28,03 €

  • The Permafrost Environment
    Stuart A. Harris
    Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment is a comprehensive review of the nature of the permafrost environment and its utilization. It looks at environmental processes and their effects and examines the management problems which result. ...
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    59,47 €

  • Field Guide Book of Geology of Kutch (Kachchh) Basin, Gujarat, India
    Gaurav D. Chauhan / Kotha Mahender / Sanjib K. Biswas
    This book represents a detailed introduction to the geology, structure, and stratigraphy of Kutch Basin, known for its rich fossilized megafauna and the wide range of condensed sections exposing Bathonian to Pleistocene. With its vast assortment of geological features, geomorphology, and geoheritage, the Kutch Basin shows geology, stratigraphy, and paleontology almost as a text...
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    123,69 €

  • The Many Facets of Israel’s Hydrogeology
    This book presents a collection of essays that address various facets of the hydrogeology of Israel. Despite its small geographic size, Israel exhibits a variety of climates and is located between two regional fluctuating base levels. The respective chapters discuss the variety of hydrogeological configurations and hydrological processes produced by these geographical circumsta...
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    173,93 €

  • Remote Sensing for Hydrocarbon Exploration
    Andreas Laake
    This book provides insights into the benefits of using remote sensing data from a geoscientist’s perspective, by integrating the data with the understanding of Earth’s surface and subsurface. In 3 sections, the book takes a detailed look at what data explorationists use when they explore for hydrocarbon resources, assess different terrain types for planning and hazards and extr...
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    196,78 €

  • Global Geographical Heritage, Geoparks and Geotourism
    This book explores the geographical, geomorphological, ecological, touristic and socioeconomic aspects of natural heritage, argues for the dynamic conservation of that heritage and explains its key characteristics, promotion, conservation and management to achieve sustainable development goals. Emerging concepts such as geodiversity, geographical heritage sites, geomonuments, g...
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    223,03 €

  • Big Karst Chambers
    Eric Gilli
    This book documents and describes 32 natural caves from France and around the globe that have a width larger than 50 m, including data on the largest underground chamber in the world: Sarawak Chamber.  Artificial caves are not able to be constructed at these volumes and most of these naturally forming chambers had never been surveyed before with little geological data available...
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    216,66 €

  • Interfacial Chemistry of Rocks and Soils
    József Kónya / Noémi M. Nagy
    Examines the different processes at solid and liquid interfaces of soil and rock, emphasizing the importance of chemical species on these interactions. By understanding the effects of adsorption and other interfacial processes on the quality of rocks and soils, the reader can drive these processes towards a beneficial or neutral result. ...
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    243,08 €

  • Brazilian Deep-Sea Biodiversity
    This book presents the biodiversity of the Brazilian deep-sea and its many unique geological and biological features, as well as a review of its ecology, conservation, and future research needs. The deep-sea Brazilian margin has an incredible geological heterogeneity with numerous characteristic seafloor features, and latitudinal changes in marine productivity, oceanographic co...
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    136,24 €

  • Frequency Analyses of Natural Extreme Events
    Jose A. Raynal Villaseñor
    This book is of paramount importance in the fields of engineering and applied sciences, given that through the values obtained by these procedures, many structures, like spillways of dams and highway culverts, are designed and constructed. The main aim of this book is to provide procedures for implementing many probability distribution functions, all of them based on using a st...
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    196,85 €

  • Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2
    Evangelos Vlachos
    This 2-volume set provides a state-of-the-art study of the fossil record and taxonomy of the main vertebrate groups from Greece. Greece stands between 3 continents and its vertebrate fossil record is of great importance for paleontological and evolutionary studies in Europe, Asia and Africa. Fossils from classic, world-famous localities (e.g., Pikermi, Samos) form an essential ...
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    173,33 €

  • Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggs and Eggshells of Peninsular India
    Ashu Khosla / Spencer G. Lucas
    This book documents analyses of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of the Lameta Formation at Jabalpur, Districts Dhar and Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh; Districts Kheda and Panchmahal (Gujarat); and the Pisdura, Dongargaon and Pavna sectors in the Chandrapur Districts of Maharashtra, which are exposed in India along an east-west and central axis. In this work, special emphasi...
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    136,30 €

  • Rock Properties and Reservoir Engineering
    Amr Mohamed Badawy / Tarek Al Arbi Omar Ganat
    This book comprehensively identifies most reservoir rock properties using a very simple approach. It aids junior and senior reservoir and geology engineers to understand the main fundamentals of rock properties. The book provides examples and solutions that can help the readers to quickly understand the topic. This book covers reservoir rock properties and their relationship to...
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    110,05 €

  • Introduction to Cryospheric Science
    This book introduces systematically the cryospheric science, covering the formation, development, evolution, and research methods of each component of the cryosphere, the interaction between the cryosphere and the other spheres of the climate system and the anthroposphere, and the hot topics of social and economic sustainable development and geopolitics. The authors are world-r...
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    159,99 €

  • Landscape in History, and Other Essays
    Archibald Geikie
    The book 'Landscape in History, and Other Essays', has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of ...
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    17,08 €

  • Air, Water, Earth, Fire
    Angelo Peccerillo
    The book describes the structure, composition and evolution of the Earth, the main geological processes occurring on it, and how some crucial environmental matters that are amply debated in the media (e.g. pollution, greenhouse effect) can be fully understood by placing them in the holistic context of the system Earth as a whole. It provides basic information on a series of key...
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    48,07 €

  • Landscapes and Landforms of Norway
    Achim A. Beylich
    This book discusses the striking geomorphological landscapes of mainland Norway. As part of the Springer book series on World Geomorphological Landscapes, it outlines the nature and diversity of Norway’s geomorphological landscapes and examines the geological background and the drivers of landscape evolution. It also features numerous case studies describing the most striking s...
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    158,53 €

  • The Soils of Nevada
    John B. Fisher / Paul W. Blackburn / William E. Dollarhide
    This book discusses Nevada in the context of the history of soil investigations; soil-forming factors; general soil regions; soil geomorphology; taxonomic structure of the soils; taxonomic soil regions; soil-forming processes; benchmark, endemic, rare, and endangered soils; and use of soils.With an average mean annual precipitation of 175 mm (7 in), Nevada is the driest state i...
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    183,73 €

  • Unsaturated Soil Mechanics with Probability and Statistics
    Kazunari Sako / Ryosuke Kitamura
    The book is focused on the mechanical behaviour of dry, partially saturated and full saturated sandy soil. It explores the inter-particle forces at the point of contact of soil particles and the resultant inter-particle stresses, instead of the total stress and effective stress which are studied in mainstream soil mechanics. ...
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    80,25 €

  • The Origin of Snakes
    Michael Wayne Caldwell
    This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenetics.  ...
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    95,74 €

  • The Lithosphere Beneath the Indian Shield
    Ashoka G. Dessai
    This book explores the geotectonic evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Indian Shield, which comprises a collage of cratons variously bounded by mobile belts and palaeo-rifts. The lithosphere beneath these is fairly thin compared to other cratons worldwide, petrologically varied and shows considerable variation in thickness with depth both intra-craton and among cratons. Mo...
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    136,23 €

  • The Mixing of Magmas
    Diego Perugini
    This book provides a common theoretical and practical basis to the multifaceted nature of magma mixing. This process represents a fundamental phenomenon both in the evolution of igneous rocks and in triggering explosive volcanic eruptions. The topic is attacked surgically merging field evidence, numerical models, and experiments in order to draw the most complete picture about ...
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    203,47 €

  • Spatial Relationships Between Two Georeferenced Variables
    Felipe Osorio / Moreno Bevilacqua / Ronny Vallejos
    This book offers essential, systematic information on the assessment of the spatial association between two processes from a statistical standpoint. Divided into eight chapters, the book begins with preliminary concepts, mainly concerning spatial statistics. The following seven chapters focus on the methodologies needed to assess the correlation between two or more processes; f...
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    135,99 €

  • Design of Hydroelectric Power Plants - Step by Step
    Geraldo Magela Pereira
    This book is a simple manual containing the practical step-by-step for designing hydroelectric plants, including legislation, with a general view of the project. ...
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    271,32 €

  • Modelling the Evolution of Natural Fracture Networks
    Michael John Welch / Mikael Lüthje / Simon John Oldfield
    This book presents and describes an innovative method to simulate the growth of natural fractural networks in different geological environments, based on their geological history and fundamental geomechanical principles.The book develops techniques to simulate the growth and interaction of large populations of layer-bound fracture directly, based on linear elastic fracture mech...
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    173,01 €

  • Textures, Structures and Processes of Volcanic Successions
    Beatriz L.L. Coira / Clara Eugenia Cisterna
    This book provides a complete study of the Central Andean volcanism and its most distinctive features, from the lower Paleozoic to the Cenozoic times in the framework of its processes, eruptive mechanisms and geodynamic conditions.It helps readers understand the nature of the volcanic geology and the volcaniclastic related deposits linked to the evolution of the Andean continen...
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    160,49 €

  • Principles of Karst Hydrogeology
    Antonio Pulido-Bosch
    This book reviews the hydrogeology of karst systems, starting with the classifications from the applied point of view, and then the hydraulic parameters (porosity, permeability, and transmissivity). It also addresses the karstification process, its resulting forms, and their hydrogeological significance. Besides, the author  describes possible models of karstic aquifers and the...
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    81,24 €

  • Models in Geomorphology
    Michael J. Woldenberg
    This book, first published in 1985, arises from the 14th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium. The chapters here illustrate the use of models in various areas of research in geomorphology. ...
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    60,06 €

  • Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology
    The tropics provide the key to understanding much biological and Earth science. This book, first published in 1985, brings together the variety of evidence about environmental changes, over a variety of timescales, and sets it against the current knowledge of the nature of geomorphic processes in the tropics. ...
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    60,36 €

  • Economic and Applied Geology
    W.G. Shackleton
    This book, first published in 1986, is an excellent introduction to the main topics of economic and applied geology for undergraduate students of geology, geophysics, mining geology and civil engineering. ...
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    59,65 €