Author: Dorothy Farris Lapidus
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007147686
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Previous ed.: New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1987; London: Collins, 1990.
Collins Dictionary Geology
Author: Dorothy Farris Lapidus
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007147686
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Previous ed.: New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1987; London: Collins, 1990.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007147686
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Previous ed.: New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1987; London: Collins, 1990.
Caves and Cave Life
Author: Philip Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biospeleology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biospeleology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Song of the Earth
Author: Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197502466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A portrayal of our planet that offers easy-to-grasp discussions of scientific concepts and detailed examinations of Earth's tectonic, biological, and paleontological forces. From the esoteric science of minerals to the interactions between humans and their environment, our planet provides answers to every question we could ask about its history and what lies ahead. The book is illustrated with maps, diagrams, and pictures, explaining everything from how a roiling, molten planet cooled to how the first cyanobacteria began to oxygenate the atmosphere to how the atmosphere has changed over time. Ervin-Blankenheim also provides narratives about pioneering geologists and their groundbreaking discoveries. In viewing the planet as the integrated ecosystem it is, Ervin-Blankenheim showcases how land, water, life, and the atmosphere maintain an elegant yet delicate balance-one that, based on the author's evidence of current trends in the context of past planetary cataclysm, appears to be under imminent threat.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197502466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A portrayal of our planet that offers easy-to-grasp discussions of scientific concepts and detailed examinations of Earth's tectonic, biological, and paleontological forces. From the esoteric science of minerals to the interactions between humans and their environment, our planet provides answers to every question we could ask about its history and what lies ahead. The book is illustrated with maps, diagrams, and pictures, explaining everything from how a roiling, molten planet cooled to how the first cyanobacteria began to oxygenate the atmosphere to how the atmosphere has changed over time. Ervin-Blankenheim also provides narratives about pioneering geologists and their groundbreaking discoveries. In viewing the planet as the integrated ecosystem it is, Ervin-Blankenheim showcases how land, water, life, and the atmosphere maintain an elegant yet delicate balance-one that, based on the author's evidence of current trends in the context of past planetary cataclysm, appears to be under imminent threat.
The Dictionary of Physical Geography
Author: David S. G. Thomas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118687434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
The third edition of this comprehensive encyclopedic dictionary covers the whole field of physical geography and provides an essential reference for all students and lecturers in this field.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118687434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
The third edition of this comprehensive encyclopedic dictionary covers the whole field of physical geography and provides an essential reference for all students and lecturers in this field.
Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands
Author: Martin Ottenheimer
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810828193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Islands of stark contrasts and complex syncretisms, the comoros hold a major key to the history of the western Indian Ocean area. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history, economics, cultures, languages, geography, geology, or politics of the western Indian Ocean.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810828193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Islands of stark contrasts and complex syncretisms, the comoros hold a major key to the history of the western Indian Ocean area. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history, economics, cultures, languages, geography, geology, or politics of the western Indian Ocean.
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Author: Ailsa Allaby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192800794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This is the most authoritative and wide-ranging dictionary of earth sciences available in a single volume. Compiled with the help of a team of specialist contributors, it has been substantially revised and updated for this new edition. It is essential reference for all students of the subject, especially those on interdisciplinary courses. Over 6,000 entries New material on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy Substantial updating in mineralogy and geophysics Exceptionally broad coverage also includes climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology New section of appendices includes wind strength scales; material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units; and geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192800794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This is the most authoritative and wide-ranging dictionary of earth sciences available in a single volume. Compiled with the help of a team of specialist contributors, it has been substantially revised and updated for this new edition. It is essential reference for all students of the subject, especially those on interdisciplinary courses. Over 6,000 entries New material on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy Substantial updating in mineralogy and geophysics Exceptionally broad coverage also includes climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology New section of appendices includes wind strength scales; material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units; and geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales
Collins Dictionary of Geology
Author: Dorothy Farris Lapidus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collins Dictionary
Author: Valerie Illingworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The second edition of the popular and authoritative Collins Dictionary of Astronomy, fully revised for 2000. This new edition has been extensively revised by a team of astronomers to take into account all recent discoveries, from a new planet in the solar system to the latest theories on the origin of the universe.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The second edition of the popular and authoritative Collins Dictionary of Astronomy, fully revised for 2000. This new edition has been extensively revised by a team of astronomers to take into account all recent discoveries, from a new planet in the solar system to the latest theories on the origin of the universe.
Collins Dictionary of Archaeology
Author: Paul G. Bahn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
In the preface to this new dictionary of archaeology, Dr. Paul Bahn describes his approach to compiling this work as " ... an attempt to drag the concept of the archaeological dictionary kicking and screaming into the 1990s." And he has done so without losing any of the traditional power of a good dictionary. Endeavoring to pay particular attention to theoretical and technical terms not usually included in similar dictionaries, Dr. Bahn was aided by a contributors' panel of 16 regional experts. The resulting dictionary of nearly 3,000 entries offers definitions of the archaeological world's most recent terms and theories and covers techniques, sites, and time-honored nomenclature as well. Biographical entries on archaeologists of the past further enhance the scope of the dictionary, giving the reader a sense of the historical development of the discipline. Readers will also benefit from the abundant cross-references that interconnect related entries and from the line drawings that accompany many of the entries. Forty-seven pages of maps and a list of titles for further reading arranged by topic complete this new research tool and field guide that will capably serve the broad spectrum of the archaeologically interested public.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
In the preface to this new dictionary of archaeology, Dr. Paul Bahn describes his approach to compiling this work as " ... an attempt to drag the concept of the archaeological dictionary kicking and screaming into the 1990s." And he has done so without losing any of the traditional power of a good dictionary. Endeavoring to pay particular attention to theoretical and technical terms not usually included in similar dictionaries, Dr. Bahn was aided by a contributors' panel of 16 regional experts. The resulting dictionary of nearly 3,000 entries offers definitions of the archaeological world's most recent terms and theories and covers techniques, sites, and time-honored nomenclature as well. Biographical entries on archaeologists of the past further enhance the scope of the dictionary, giving the reader a sense of the historical development of the discipline. Readers will also benefit from the abundant cross-references that interconnect related entries and from the line drawings that accompany many of the entries. Forty-seven pages of maps and a list of titles for further reading arranged by topic complete this new research tool and field guide that will capably serve the broad spectrum of the archaeologically interested public.
The Vital Question
Author: Nick Lane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781250372
Category : Cells
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781250372
Category : Cells
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.