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The Isle of Wight is a geological gem with its 110km (68 mile) long
coastline displaying a range of rocks dating from Lower Cretaceous
to Oligocene age. Many of the sands and clays yield fossil bivalves
and gastropods, and its famous dinosaur footprints attract much
attention from geologists and tourists alike. Yet the scenic beauty
of the island is the product of its differing strata, former earth
movements and the erosive power of the sea and the rivers. The
monoclinal fold that crosses the island forms the chalk downland
ridge that ends in the splendid cliffs of Culver in the east and
The Needles in the west. By contrast, the softer rocks produce low,
slumped cliffs often cut by steep-sided chines or alternatively, on
the north coast, branching estuaries and salt marsh creeks. With
over 120 colour illustrations this book discusses the geological
processes that created the island's distinctive landscape; it
provides a field guide to the identification of rocks and fossils
and includes details of nineteen itineraries to discover the
geological examples and fossils discussed.
The Rouge River is a mostly urbanized watershed of about 500 square
miles populated by nearly 1.4 million people. While not
geographically large, the river has played an outsized role in the
history of southeast Michigan, most famously housing Ford's massive
Rouge Factory, designed by architect Albert Kahn and later
memorialized in Diego Rivera's renowned "Detroit Industry" murals.
In recent decades, the story of the Rouge River has also been one
of grassroots environmental activism. After pollution from the Ford
complex and neighboring factories literally caused the river to
catch on fire in 1969, community groups launched a Herculean effort
to restore and protect the watershed. Today the Rouge stands as one
of the most successful examples of urban river revival in the
country. Rouge River Revived describes the river's history from
pre-European times into the 21st century. Chapters cover topics
such as Native American life on the Rouge; indigenous flora and
fauna over time; the river's role in the founding of local cities;
its key involvement in Detroit's urban development and intensive
industrialization; and the dramatic clean-up arising from citizen
concern and activism. This book is not only a history of the
environment of the Rouge River, but also of the complex and
evolving relationship between humans and natural spaces.
Antarctic Climate Evolution, Second Edition, enhances our
understanding of the history of the world's largest ice sheet, and
how it responded to and influenced climate change during the
Cenozoic. It includes terrestrial and marine geology,
sedimentology, glacier geophysics and ship-borne geophysics,
coupled with results from numerical ice sheet and climate modeling.
The book's content largely mirrors the structure of the Past
Antarctic Ice Sheets (PAIS) program (www.scar.org/science/pais),
formed to investigate past changes in Antarctica by supporting
multidisciplinary global research. This new edition reflects recent
advances and is updated with several new chapters, including those
covering marine and terrestrial life changes, ice shelves, advances
in numerical modeling, and increasing coverage of rates of change.
The approach of the PAIS program has led to substantial improvement
in our knowledge base of past Antarctic change and our
understanding of the factors that have guided its evolution.
Ocean Science Data: Collection, Management, Networking, and
Services presents the evolution of ocean science, information,
theories, and data services for oceanographers looking for a better
understanding of big data. The book is divided into chapters
organized under the following main issues: marine science, history
and data archaeology, data services in ocean science,
society-driven data, and coproduction and education. Throughout the
book, particular emphasis is put on data products quality and big
data management strategy; embracing tools enabling data discovery,
data preparation, self-service data accessibility, collaborative
semantic metadata management, data standardization, and stream
processing engines. Ocean Science Data provides an opportunity to
start a new roadmap for data management issues, to be used for
future collaboration among disciplines. This will include a focus
on organizational objectives such as improved performance,
competitive advantage, innovation, the sharing of lessons learned,
integration, and continuous improvement of data management
organization. This book is written for ocean scientists at
postgraduate level and above as well as marine scientists and
climate change scientists.
Computers in Earth and Environmental Sciences: Artificial
Intelligence and Advanced Technologies in Hazards and Risk
Management addresses the need for a comprehensive book that focuses
on multi-hazard assessments, natural and manmade hazards, and risk
management using new methods and technologies that employ GIS,
artificial intelligence, spatial modeling, machine learning tools
and meta-heuristic techniques. The book is clearly organized into
four parts that cover natural hazards, environmental hazards,
advanced tools and technologies in risk management, and future
challenges in computer applications to hazards and risk management.
Researchers and professionals in Earth and Environmental Science
who require the latest technologies and advances in hazards, remote
sensing, geosciences, spatial modeling and machine learning will
find this book to be an invaluable source of information on the
latest tools and technologies available.
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations were five meteorological and
scientific monitoring stations constructed at Resolute, Eureka,
Mould Bay, Isachsen, and Alert with the cooperation of the Canadian
Department of Transport's meteorological branch and the United
States Weather Bureau. From 1947 to the early 1970s as few as four
Canadians and four Americans worked and lived at each of the four
satellite stations, observing and collecting scientific data.This
is the first systematic account of the Joint Arctic Weather
Stations, a project that profoundly shaped state activates and
scientific inquiry in the Arctic Archipelago. Drawing on extensive
archival evidence, unpublished personal memoirs, and interviews
with former employees, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations analyzes
the diplomatic, scientific, social, military, and environmental
dimensions of the program alongside each station as a nexus of
state planning and personal agency. Contrary to previous
scholarship, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations reveals that
Canadian officials sought-and achieved-a firm policy that afforded
effective control of Canada's Arctic while enjoying the advantages
of American contribution to the joint meteorological program. It
explores the changing ways science was conducted over time and how
the details of everyday life at remote stations, from the climate
to leisure activities to debates over alcohol, hunting, and
leadership, shaped the program's effectiveness. An exploration of
the full duration of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations from
high-level planning and diplomacy to personal interactions in the
stations makes this book an essential exploration of collaborative
polar science in the North American Arctic.
Precipitation: Earth Surface Responses and Processes provides
readers with a general and indispensable overview of processing
rainfall processes through radar techniques, numerical models,
geostatistical tools, photogrammetric methods, plots, indexes of
connectivity or rainfall simulations. The handbook follows a clear
and consistent format, and is structured as follows: Introduction
(State-of-the-Art); Part 1. Rainfall and climate/atmosphere; Part
2. Models and applications; Part 3. Rainfall as a key actor playing
the main role affecting different ecosystems. Part 3: Rainfall
affecting the earth surface from different scales and landforms;
Part 4: Rainfall and stormwater quality management in urban and
rural areas. Precipitation is a key factor needed for understanding
landscape evolution and ecosystem services. Knowing the main
precipitation composition, mechanisms and processes allows for
efficient land management plans and ecosystem restoration
activities. However, precipitation shows different responses under
specific environments depending on the climate (from the arid to
the polar areas), parent material, scale (from the raindrops to
catchment scale), intensity, landscape morphologies (soil sealing,
rills, gullies or rivers) or human activities (agriculture or urban
areas). Precipitation: Earth Surface Responses and Processes bring
this information together and provides indispensable material in a
holistic manner for students, scientists and lecturers from
different environmental disciplines such as climatology,
meteorology, geomorphology, hydrology, soil science, geography,
engineering, or ecology.
Formation and Structure of Planets, Volume 62 in the Advances in
Geophysics series, highlights new chapters on a variety of topics
in the field, including The evolution of multi-method imaging of
structures and processes in environmental geophysics, An
introduction to variational inference in Geophysical inverse
problems, Moment tensor inversion, and more.
West Somerset is an area of great geological diversity, straddling
the Tees-Exe Line between highland and lowland Britain. The story
of the last 400 million years of Earth history can be gleaned from
its rocks: the opening and closing of oceans, the collision of
continents and a journey across the Equator. The area may also
provide the key to settle the controversy about the origin of
South-West England, whose ancient geology is so different from the
rest of the country. This unique and diverse geology is also the
reason why it is one of the most beautiful and varied stretches of
landscape in England. With nearly 170 illustrations, including
maps, charts, diagrams and colour photographs, this book describes
and explains the evidence for the geological history of the area,
from the Palaeozoic, through the Mesozoic to the Pleistocene and
Holocene. Regional guides, which discuss the factors that led to
the landscape we see today and offer places of interest to visit,
cover: the Northern Brendon Hills and Minehead; the Southern
Brendon Hills; Wellington and the Blackdown Hills; Wiveliscombe and
the Vale of Stogumber; the Quantock Hills; West Somerset coast and
the Cannington and Bridgwater Lowlands.
Bioleaching of chalcopyrite is always a challenge and research
hotspot. The low copper extraction and dissolution kinetics
restricted the industrial application of chalcopyrite bioleaching.
To solve this problem, the dissolution process and passivation
mechanism of chalcopyrite in bioleaching should be first studied,
then the rate-limiting steps should be analysed explicitly, and
finally the intensifying method can be put forward. Many scholars
have made efforts to investigate the dissolution mechanism of
chalcopyrite in bioleaching. However, there is no congruence of
opinion as yet. Biohydrometallurgy of Chalcopyrite summarizes and
discusses the reported research findings. In addition, this book
publishes the related results found by the authors' research. Then,
the dissolution mechanism of chalcopyrite in bioleaching is
interpreted. Finally, the process intensification techniques of
chalcopyrite bioleaching are provided and discussed. Hence, this
book provides useful reference and guidance in both laboratory
research and industrial production.
Analysis of Chemical Residues in Agriculture presents a focused,
yet comprehensive guide on how to identify, evaluate and analyze
the wide range of chemicals that impact our food production system.
The book presents a variety of analytical technologies and methods
in order to help professionals, researchers, and graduate and
undergraduate students understand chemical residues in agriculture
and apply them to applications for the detection and quantification
of chemical residues - both organic and inorganic - in several
agricultural matrices, including crops, fruits, meat, food, feed,
soil and water. Agriculture remains one of the most strategic
sectors for the global economy and well-being. However, it is seen
as a source of environmental and health concerns mainly due to the
high amount of pesticides and fertilizers used in production
systems around the world; moreover, a thorough understanding of the
topic is necessary when we consider livestock production systems
also apply large amounts of veterinary drugs to treat illness and
promote increases in productivity.
A comprehensive account of ore-forming processes, revised and
updated The revised second edition of Introduction to Ore-Forming
Processes offers a guide to the multiplicity of geological
processes that result in the formation of mineral deposits. The
second edition has been updated to reflect the most recent
developments in the study of metallogeny and earth system science.
This second edition contains new information about global tectonic
processes and crustal evolution that continues to influence the
practice of economic geology and maintains the supply of natural
resources in a responsible and sustainable way. The replenishment
of depleted natural resources is becoming more difficult and
environmentally challenging. There is also a change in the demand
for mineral commodities and the concern around the non-sustainable
supply of 'critical metals' is now an important consideration for
planners of the future. The book puts the focus on the responsible
custodianship of natural resources and the continuing need for all
earth scientists to understand metallogeny and the resource cycle.
This new edition: Provides an updated guide to the processes
involved in the formation of mineral deposits Offers an overview of
magmatic, hydrothermal and sedimentary ore-forming processes Covers
the entire range of mineral deposit types, including the fossil
fuels and supergene ores Relates metallogeny to global tectonics by
examining the distribution of mineral deposits in space and time
Contains examples of world famous ore deposits that help to provide
context and relevance to the process-oriented descriptions of ore
genesis Written for students and professionals alike, Introduction
to Ore-Forming Processes offers a revised second edition that puts
the focus on the fact that mineral deposits are simply one of the
many natural wonders of geological process and evolution.
Observe how weather can drastically change how a single street
looks with this science reader. With images that are easy to
identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader
simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve
their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your
Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional
learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index.
Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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