Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Geosphere-Biosphere Coupling Processes
Author: Deep-water Cold Seeps, Sedimentary Environments and Ecosystems of the Black and Tyrrhenian Seas and the Gulf of Cadiz
Author: A. M. AkhmetzhanovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Geosphere-Biosphere-Hydrosphere Coupling Processes, Fluid Escape Structures and Tectonics at Continental Margins and Ocean Ridges
Author: Maria Ribeiro CunhaGeosphere/Biosphere/Hydrosphere Coupling Processes, Fluid Escape Structures and Tectonics at Continental Margins and Oceanic Ridges, TTR11 Post-Cruise Meeting and International Conference, Aveiro, Portugal, 30 Jan-2 Feb 2002, Programme, Abstracts, List of Participants
Author: Margins
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309041880
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Approximately 70 percent of the world's population is concentrated in the coastal borderlands, which geologists recognize to be the present continental margins. This new book on these continental margins provides a detailed account of a meeting which brought together specialists in marine and terrestrial geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. The workshop garnered widespread support and enthusiasm for a new direction in margins research focused on interdisciplinary studies of the fundamental processes of continental margin evolution. Scientific problems and solutions were identified for both divergent and convergent margins. Results of the workshop show that many of the fundamental plate interaction processes are common to all margins, whether formed by extension, contraction, or translation. This conclusion suggests a unified approach to margins research. A margins initiative has been proposed to follow up on the workshop results by developing science programs aimed at understanding the processes that control the initiation and evolution of continental margins.
Margins
Author: National Research Council CommissionPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780585144009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Approximately 70 percent of the world's population is concentrated in the coastal borderlands, which geologists recognize to be the present continental margins. This new book on these continental margins provides a detailed account of a meeting which brought together specialists in marine and terrestrial geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. The workshop garnered widespread support and enthusiasm for a new direction in margins research focused on interdisciplinary studies of the fundamental processes of continental margin evolution. Scientific problems and solutions were identified for both divergent and convergent margins. Results of the workshop show that many of the fundamental plate interaction processes are common to all margins, whether formed by extension, contraction, or translation. This conclusion suggests a unified approach to margins research. A margins initiative has been proposed to follow up on the workshop results by developing science programs aimed at understanding the processes that control the initiation and evolution of continental margins.
Prokaryotes and Evolution
Author: Jean-Claude BertrandPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331999784X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to show the essential and indispensable role of prokaryotes in the evolution of aliving world. The evolutionary success of prokaryotes is explained together with their role in the evolution of the geosphere, the biosphere and its functioning, as well as their ability to colonize all biotopes, including the most extreme ones. We consider that all past and present living beings emerged from prokaryotes and have interacted with them. Forces and mechanisms presented in the various theories of evolution apply to prokaryotes. The major stages of their evolution and biodiversity are also described. Finally, it is emphasized that prokaryotes are living organisms that provide indisputable evidence of evolutionary processes. Many examples of ongoing evolution in prokaryotes, observable at the human scale, are provided.
The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
Author: Steven BernsteinPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504306
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The most significant shift in environmental governance over the last thirty years has been the convergence of environmental and liberal economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism"—which predicates environmental protection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. Steven Bernstein assesses the reasons for this historical shift, introduces a socio-evolutionary explanation for the selection of international norms, and considers the implications for our ability to address global environmental problems. The author maintains that the institutionalization of "sustainable development" at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) legitimized the evolution toward liberal environmentalism. Arguing that most of the literature on international environmental politics is too rationalist and problem-specific, Bernstein challenges the mainstream thinking on international cooperation by showing that it is always for some purpose or goal. His analysis of the norms that guide global environmental policy also challenges the often-presumed primacy of science in environmental governance.
Nuneau
Author: Maria AragonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978950781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Faerie Princess and her two escorts, a Faerie Prince and an Elf, have more adventures than they planned on as they try to journey to the court of the Faerie Queen. Paperback edition
Deep-Sea Sediments
Author: H. HunekePublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444530002
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
'Deep-Sea Sediments' focuses on the sedimentary processes operating within the various modern and ancient deep-sea environments. The chapters track the way of sedimentary particles from continental erosion or production in the marine realm, to transport into the deep sea, to final deposition on the sea floor.