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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Geology of the European Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Author: Geology of the European Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Author: Geology of the European Countries
Author: Comité national français de géologiePublisher:
ISBN: 9782040120436
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Geology of the North Atlantic Borderlands
Author: James William KerrPublisher: Calgary, Alta., Canada : Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Surge Tectonics: A New Hypothesis of Global Geodynamics
Author: Arthur A. MeyerhoffPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400917384
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
TECTONlCS AND PHYSICS Geology, although rooted in the laws of physics, rarely has been taught in a manner designed to stress the relations between the laws and theorems of physics and the postulates of geology. The same is true of geophysics, whose specialties (seismology, gravimetIy, magnetics, magnetotellurics) deal only with the laws that govern them, and not with those that govern geology's postulates. The branch of geology and geophysics called tectonophysics is not a formalized discipline or subdiscipline, and, therefore, has no formal laws or theorems of its own. Although many recent books claim to be textbooks in tectonophysics, they are not; they are books designed to explain one hypothesis, just as the present book is designed to explain one hypothesis. The textbook that comes closest to being a textbook of tectonophysics is Peter 1. Wyllie's (1971) book, The Dynamic Earth. Teachers, students, and practitioners of geology since the very beginning of earth science teaching have avoided the development of a rigorous (but not rigid) scientific approach to tectonics, largely because we earth scientists have not fully understood the origin of the features with which we are dealing. This fact is not at all surprising when one considers that the database for hypotheses and theories of tectonics, particularly before 1960, has been limited to a small part of the exposed land area on the Earth's surface.
Granite Landforms
Author: C.R. TwidalePublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444597646
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Granite Landforms provides a systematic, coherent, and comprehensive account and analysis of granite landforms. It examines granite forms and their genesis; the morphology of granite exposures; the nature of the materials from which granitic rocks have evolved; and the weathering processes near the Earth’s surface. It also describes major landforms and assemblages, as well as the minor features that have evolved on the major hosts. Organized into four parts encompassing 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of granite, including their characteristics, occurrences, and composition. It then discusses the factors that influence the weathering of granitic rocks and considers boulders and inselbergs, the all-slopes topography in granite, granite plains and rock basins, granite forms associated with steep slopes, and scarp foot depressions. The reader is also introduced to the piedmont angle, grooves or flutings, caves and tafoni, split rocks, cracked blocks and plates, and the role of climate in the development of landforms on granitic outcrops. Geologists, geomorphologists, geology students, and anyone interested in geology will find this book extremely useful.
Petroleum Geology of the Southeastern North Sea and the Adjacent Onshore Areas
Author: J.P.H. KaasschieterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400955324
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Geotourism
Author: David NewsomePublisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1906884927
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Geotourism: the tourism of geology and landscape is a compilation of first class international research which provides insight into the many facets of this emerging subject, and comprehensively explores the nexus between landscape, geological phenomena and tourism.
The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary
Author: John A. Van CouveringPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521617022
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book documents the agreed geological reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, and its worldwide correlation.
Iceland's Networked Society
Author: Tara CarterPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004293345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Linked by the politics of global trade networks, Viking Age Europe was a well-connected world. Within this fertile social environment, Iceland ironically has been casted as a marginal society too remote to participate in global affairs, and destined to live in the shadow of its more successful neighbours. Drawing on new archaeological evidence, Tara Carter challenges this view, arguing that by building strong social networks the first citizens of Iceland balanced thinking globally while acting locally, creating the first cosmopolitan society in the North Atlantic. Iceland’s Networked Society asks us to reconsider how societies like Iceland can, even when positioned at the margins of competing empires, remain active in a global political economy and achieve social complexity on its own terms.