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Price: $82.50
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Sale: $48.98
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: H. Robert Burger::Anne F. Sheehan::Craig H. Jones
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 622.15
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Publication Date: 2006-07-06
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Reading Level: 600
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Description: Introduction to Applied Geophysics covers the fundamental principles and common methods of exploration geophysics, preparing students for field study of the shallow subsurface. Offering a chapter on each of the most common methods of exploration, the text explains in detail how each method is performed and discusses that method's geologic, engineering, and environmental applications. In addition to ample examples, illustrations, and applications throughout, each chapter concludes with a problem set.
The text is also accompanied by the Field Geophysics Software Suite, an innovative CD-ROM that allows students to experiment with refraction and reflection seismology, gravity, magnetics, electrical resistivity, and ground-penetrating radar methods of exploration.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.25
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ted Nield
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.41
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Publication Date: 2007-11-15
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. The Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion years old. This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cycle of all—one so vast that our species will probably be extinct long before the current one ends in about 250 million years. And yet this cycle, the grandest pattern in Nature, may well be the fundamental reason our species—or any complex life at all—exists. This book explores the Supercontinent Cycle from scientists' earliest inkling of the phenomenon to the geological discoveries of today—and from the most recent fusing of all of Earth's landmasses, Pangaea, on which dinosaurs evolved, to the next. Chronicling a 500-million-year cycle, Ted Nield introduces readers to some of the most exciting science of our time. He describes how, long before plate tectonics were understood, geologists first guessed at these vanishing landmasses and came to appreciate the significance of the fusing and fragmenting of supercontinents. He also uses the story of the supercontinents to consider how scientific ideas develop, and how they sometimes escape the confines of science. Nield takes the example of the recent Indian Ocean tsunami to explain how the whole endeavor of science is itself a supercontinent, whose usefulness in saving human lives, and life on Earth, depends crucially on a freedom to explore the unknown. (20071001)
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $11.49
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Walter Alvarez
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.84
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Publication Date: 1997-03-27
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Reading Level: 236
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Description: One of the great mysteries is what happened to the dinosaurs, and it has taken great detective work to give us an answer. In T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, some brilliant, not to mention determined, scientists roam the world and seek out the clues. What they conclude is that the earth withstood a colossal impact with a meteor (or perhaps a comet) 65 million years ago. The resulting cataclysm destroyed half the life on the planet. Walter Alvarez, a geologist at the University of California at Berkeley, and one of the four scientists who present this theory on the mystery, tells the story in a clear narrative that contains a wealth of scientific material. The book does require an investment of attention, but the presentation is quite readable, and the story itself is fascinating.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gabrielle Walker
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.60901
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Publication Date: 2004-02-24
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman’s quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound that it is shaking the world of earth sciences to its core.
In lyrical prose that brings each remote and alluring locale vividly to life, Walker takes us on a thrilling natural history expedition to witness firsthand the supporting evidence Hoffman has pieced together. That evidence, he argues, shows that 700 million years ago the Earth did indeed freeze over completely, becoming a giant “snowball,” in the worst climatic catastrophe in history. Even more startling is his assertion that, instead of ending life on Earth, this global deep freeze was the trigger for the Cambrian Explosion, the hitherto unexplained moment in geological time when a glorious profusion of complex life forms first emerged from the primordial ooze.
In a story full of intellectual intrigue, we follow the irascible but brilliant Hoffman and a supporting cast of intrepid geologists as they scour the planet, uncovering clue after surprising clue. We travel to a primeval lagoon at Shark Bay in western Australia, where dolphins cavort with swimmers every morning at seven and “living rocks” sprout out of the water like broccoli heads; to the desolate and forbidding ice fields of a tiny Arctic archipelago seven hundred miles north of Norway; to the surprising fossil beds that decorate Newfoundland’s foggy and windswept coastline; and on to the superheated salt pans of California’s Death Valley.
Through the contours of these rich and varied landscapes Walker teaches us to read the traces of geological time with expert eyes, and we marvel at the stunning feats of resilience and renewal our remarkable planet is capable of. Snowball Earth is science writing at its most gripping and enlightening.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Price: $80.00
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Sale: $48.96
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frank D. Stacey::Paul M. Davis
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 550
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Publication Date: 2008-09-22
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Reading Level: 552
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Description: The fourth edition of Physics of the Earth maintains the original philosophy of this classic graduate textbook on fundamental solid earth geophysics, while being completely revised, updated, and restructured into a more modular format to make individual topics even more accessible. Building on the success of previous editions, which have served generations of students and researchers for nearly forty years, this new edition will be an invaluable resource for graduate students looking for the necessary physical and mathematical foundations to embark on their own research careers in geophysics. Several completely new chapters have been added and a series of appendices, presenting fundamental data and advanced mathematical concepts, and an extensive reference list, are provided as tools to aid readers wishing to pursue topics beyond the level of the book. Over 140 student exercises of varying levels of difficulty are also included, and full solutions are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521873628.
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Price: $189.00
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Sale: $132.30
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Xavier Lurton
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 620.25
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Publication Date: 2002-12-16
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Reading Level: 347
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Description: Presented in a clear and concise way as an introductory text and practical handbook, the book provides the basic physical phenomena governing underwater acoustical waves, propagation, reflection, target backscattering and noise. It covers the general features of sonar systems, transducers and arrays, signal processing and performance evaluation. It provides an overview of today's applications, presenting the working principles of the various systems.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $27.76
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Milsom
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 622.15
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Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: Since publication of the 2nd edition, there have been considerable advances in instrumentation, and far-reaching developments in applications for small-scale geophysical surveys. Much more can now be done in the field by way of processing and data display, and even interpretation. Covering applications in mineral exploration, engineering/environmental studies, hydrogeology and archaeology, this book puts emphasis on practical applications and the common problems and pitfalls. Simple interpretation methods are discussed with particular emphasis on preliminary interpretations as important elements in field quality control. Field Geophysics Third Edition has been revised and updated for the modern world but keeps its popular handy pocket size for use in the field. This edition includes: - New sections on the use of hand-held GPS receivers, capacitatively-coupled resistivity methods and Controlled Source Audiomagnetotellurics (CSAMT)
- Specific guidance in the use of common field instruments, including possible problems and how to avoid them
- Expanded treatments of transient electromagnetics, and the advantages and pitfalls of the use of dataloggers and automatic reading in the field
Field Geophysics Third Edition provides practical information and assistance to anyone engaged in small-scale geophysical surveys on the ground. Geophysics students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, employees in geophysical and engineering consultancies, geophysicists and geologists in government surveys and mining companies, field archaeologists and hydrogeologists will all find this book useful.
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Price: $87.40
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Sale: $68.23
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Zachary Sharp
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.9
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Publication Date: 2006-01-30
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: This is the first dedicated book to cover the basics of a wide range of stable isotope applications in a manner appropriate for someone entering the field. At the same time, it offers sufficient detail – and numerous references and examples – to direct research for further inquiry. Discusses diverse topics such as hydrology, carbon in plants, meteorites, carbonates, metamorphic rocks, etc. Explores the theory and principles of isotope fractionation. Offers unique, up-to-date discussion of meteorite (extraterrestrial) isotope data. Presents the subject in an interesting historical context, with the classic papers noted. A useful reference for students taking the course and professionals entering the field of Geochemistry.
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Price: $140.00
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Sale: $99.42
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lee-Lueng Fu::Anny Cazenave
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.460028
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Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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Reading Level: 463
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Description: The new level of precision and global coverage provided by satellite altimetry is rapidly advancing studies of ocean circulation. It allows for new insights into marine geodesy, ice sheet movements, plate tectonics, and for the first time provides high-resolution bathymetry for previously unmapped regions of our watery planet and crucial information on the large-scale ocean features on intra-season to interannual time scales. Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences has integrated the expertise of the leading international researchers to demonstrate the techniques, missions, and accuracy of satellite altimetry, including altimeter measurements, orbit determination, and ocean circulation models.
Satellite altimetry is helping to advance studies of ocean circulation, tides, sea level, surface waves and allowing new insights into marine geodesy.
Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences provides high resolution bathymetry for previously unmapped regions of our watery planet.
Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences is for a very broad spectrum of academics, graduate students, and researchers in geophysics, oceanography, and the space and earth sciences. International agencies that fund satellite-based research will also appreciate the handy reference on the applications of satellite altimetry.
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Price: $132.00
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Sale: $90.00
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William Menke
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 1989-09-11
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Reading Level: 289
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Description: Please use extracts from reviews of first edition
Key Features
* Updated and thoroughly revised edition
* additional material on geophysical/acoustic tomography
* Detailed discussion of application of inverse theory to tectonic, gravitational and geomagnetic studies
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