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Chemostratigraphy: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications is the
first collection of contributed articles that introduces young
geoscientists to the discipline while providing seasoned
practitioners with a standard reference that showcases the topic's
most recent research and application developments. This
multi-contributed reference on one of the youngest and most dynamic
branches of the geosciences includes articles from some of the
world's leading researchers. This book is a one-stop source of
chemostratigraphy theory and application, helping geoscientists
navigate through the wealth of new research that has emerged in
recent years.
This book offers a unique collection of inter- and
multidisciplinary studies on river systems. Rivers have been the
prime source of sustenance since the advent of civilization and
river systems often form the basis for agriculture, transport,
water, and land for domestic, commercial, and industrial
activities, fostering economic prosperity. A river basin is a basic
geographical and climatological unit within which the vagaries of
natural processes act and manifest themselves at different
spatio-temporal scales. Even if compared side-by-side, no two river
basins respond to natural processes in the same way and thus, it
has long been recognized that each river basin is unique. Hence,
any developmental activity or conservation effort has to be
designed and implemented to match each unique river basin. With the
burgeoning population and increasing dependency on natural
resources, understanding and maintaining river systems has become
increasingly important. This book provides a varied reference work
on and unprecedented guidelines for conducting and implementing
research on river basins, and for managing their ecological
development.
On a Sustainable Future of the Earth's Natural Resources is divided
into three sections, with individual chapters contributed by
experts on diff erent facets of the earth sciences, natural
resources management and related issues. The first section focuses
on the status of Earth's resources; land, water, biota and
atmosphere. Reviews on the rate of exploitation and the need to
conserve these resources for future sustenance are also covered in
this section. Th e following section includes chapters elucidating
environmental, ecological, climatological and anthropological
pressures on sustained nourishment with the Earth's resources. The
last section describes management practices, issues and
perspectives on sociological, legal, administrative, ICT and
strategic efforts that need to be implemented in order to sustain
our natural resources. This book covers a broad spectrum of the
Earth's resources and sustenance, offering a comprehensive
perspective on their past, present and future.
This book offers a unique collection of inter- and
multidisciplinary studies on river systems. Rivers have been the
prime source of sustenance since the advent of civilization and
river systems often form the basis for agriculture, transport,
water, and land for domestic, commercial, and industrial
activities, fostering economic prosperity. A river basin is a basic
geographical and climatological unit within which the vagaries of
natural processes act and manifest themselves at different
spatio-temporal scales. Even if compared side-by-side, no two river
basins respond to natural processes in the same way and thus, it
has long been recognized that each river basin is unique. Hence,
any developmental activity or conservation effort has to be
designed and implemented to match each unique river basin. With the
burgeoning population and increasing dependency on natural
resources, understanding and maintaining river systems has become
increasingly important. This book provides a varied reference work
on and unprecedented guidelines for conducting and implementing
research on river basins, and for managing their ecological
development.
On a Sustainable Future of the Earth s Natural Resources is
divided into three sections, with individual chapters contributed
by experts on diff erent facets of the earth sciences, natural
resources management and related issues. The first section focuses
on the status of Earth s resources; land, water, biota and
atmosphere. Reviews on the rate of exploitation and the need to
conserve these resources for future sustenance are also covered in
this section. Th e following section includes chapters elucidating
environmental, ecological, climatological and anthropological
pressures on sustained nourishment with the Earth s resources. The
last section describes management practices, issues and
perspectives on sociological, legal, administrative, ICT and
strategic efforts that need to be implemented in order to sustain
our natural resources. This book covers a broad spectrum of the
Earth s resources and sustenance, offering a comprehensive
perspective on their past, present and future.
Coastal Zone Management: Global Perspectives, Regional Processes,
Local Issues brings together a vast range of interdisciplinary data
on coastal zones in a concise, yet exhaustive format that will be
useful to students, researchers, and teachers. The book contains
several focused sections, all of which include individual chapters
written by subject experts with considerable experience in their
fields of research. Each chapter presents the latest research and
status of its focus, with a concluding endnote on future trends.
Topics covered in the book include the sea level and climate
changes, evolution of coastlines, land-use dynamics and coastal
hazards mitigation and management. The global coast has faced the
force of both climate hange and natural disasters, which continue
to result in the loss of human life and degradation of quality of
the coastal environment. Coastal Zone Management: Global
Perspectives, Regional Processes, Local Issues provides the latest
developments and key strategies to tackle this in a single
comprehensive volume. It is an essential reference for scientists
and researchers well-read on coastal zones, as well as those new to
the subject.
Eustatic High-Frequency Sea Level Cycles and Habitat Heterogeneity:
Basinal-Regional-Global Implications presents the current
understanding and future directions of the research on Cretaceous
sea level cycles in a single source. This reference work is for
beginners, graduates, and postgraduates who are interested in the
subject and intend to venture into serious research. This hybrid
text/reference is for beginners, academics, and professionals who
intend to document sea level dynamics on long and short time scales
and resultant habitat and paleobiodiversity changes.
Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development
and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a
reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are
interested in this subject and intend venture into serious
research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and
highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a
wide audience of geologists and climatologists.
Cretaceous Sea Level Rise delves into the question of whether the
observed short-term sea-level changes are regional (tectonic) or
global (eustatic) and determines their possible relation to climate
cycles; to assess the role of feedback mechanisms, i.e. thermal
expansion/contraction of seawater, subsidence due to loading by
water, changing vegetation of the Earth System and to investigate
the relation of sea-level highs and lows to ocean anoxia and
oxidation events, represented by black shales and oceanic red beds,
and to evaluate the evidence for ephemeral glacial episodes or
other climate events. Though research has been, and is being,
conducted in these fields since the introduction of sea level
cycles and sequence development concepts in the 1970"s, the
available information is scattered. Cretaceous Sea Level Rise
presents the current understanding and future directions of the
research on Cretaceous sea level cycles in a single source, forming
a reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates who are
interested in this subject.
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