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Stratigraphy of Geo- and Biodynamic Processes

• 1st Edition
• Volume 8
• September 23, 2023
• Michael Montenari
• English
• Hardback 978-0-323-99242-8

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Stratigraphy and Timescales, Volume Eight in the Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy series, covers research in stratigraphic disciplines, including recent developments in the geosciences. This fully commissioned publication aims to foster and convey progress in stratigraphy with its inclusion of a variety of topics, including The fusulinids of a carbonate platform in Middle Permian Maokou Formation (Guadalupian) in eastern Sichuan Basin, China, Provenance of the Neogene sedimentary rocks of Sabah: the Kudat Formation, circular basins and the Crocker Unconformity revisited, The Neogene West Baram Delta, Ages and provenance of sedimentary rocks from Northwest Sulawesi and East Kalimantan: the Neogene Mahakam Delta, and much more.

Air Pollution Calculations

• 2nd Edition
• September 17, 2023
• Daniel A. Vallero
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-13987-1

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• eBook 978-0-443-13988-8

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Air Pollution Calculations: Quantifying Pollutant Formation, Transport, Transformation, Fate and Risks, Second Edition enhances the systems science aspects of air pollution, including transformation reactions in soil, water, sediment and biota that contribute to air pollution. This second edition will be an update based on research and actions taken since 2019 that affect air pollution calculations, including new control technologies, emissions measurement, and air quality modeling. Recent court cases, regulatory decisions, and advances in technology are discussed and, where necessary, calculations have been revised to reflect these updates. Sections discuss pollutant characterization, pollutant transformation, and environmental partitioning. Air partitioning, physical transport of air pollutants, air pollution biogeochemistry, and thermal reactions are also thoroughly explored. The author then carefully examines air pollution risk calculations, control technologies and dispersion models. The text wraps with discussions of economics and project management, reliability and failure, and air pollution decision-making.

Geohazards

• 1st Edition
• Volume 64
• August 24, 2023
• Cedric Schmelzbach
• English
• Hardback 978-0-323-99250-3

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Advances in Geophysics, Volume 64 in this ongoing serial, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors and covering topics such as Distributed acoustic sensing, Infrasound array monitoring of mass movements in Alpine regions, and The Hollin Hill Laboratory.

Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

• 2nd Edition
• August 17, 2023
• Paolo Paron
• Paolo Paron + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-819101-9

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Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 2e, provides an integrated look at the major disasters that have had, and continue to have, major implications for many of the world’s people, such as floods and droughts. This new edition takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some scientific issues that are socially relevant and can directly affect human lives and assets. This new edition showcases both academic and applied research conducted in developed and developing countries, allowing readers to see the most updated flood and drought modeling research and their applications in the real world, including for humanitarian emergency purposes. Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 2e, also contains new insights about how climate change affects hazardous processes. For the first time, information on the many diverse topics relevant to professionals is aggregated into one volume. It is a valuable reference to researchers, graduates, scientists, physical geographers, urban planners, landscape architects, and other people who work on the build environments of the world.

Geospatial Analysis Applied to Mineral Exploration

• 1st Edition
• August 10, 2023
• Amin Beiranvand Pour + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-95608-6

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Geospatial Analysis Applied to Mineral Exploration: Remote Sensing, GIS, Geochemical, and Geophysical Applications to Mineral Resources presents state-of-the-art approaches on recent remote sensing and GIS-based mineral prospectivity modeling for Earth scientists, researchers, mineral exploration communities and mining companies. This book will help readers solve high complexity issues in remote sensing data processing, geochemical data analysis, geophysical data analysis, and appropriate applications of GIS techniques for data fusion designed for mineral exploration purposes. It contains updated knowledge of remote sensing imagery, geochemistry, geophysics and geospatial techniques that can assist in delineating the signatures and patterns linked to deep-seated, covered, blind or buried mineral deposits.

Machine Learning in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

• 1st Edition
• June 27, 2023
• Hossein Bonakdari + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-15284-9

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Machine Learning in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences: Theoretical and Practical Applications is a practical guide on implementing different variety of extreme learning machine algorithms to Earth and environmental data. The book provides guided examples using real-world data for numerous novel and mathematically detailed machine learning techniques that can be applied in Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences, including detailed MATLAB coding coupled with line-by-line descriptions of the advantages and limitations of each method. The book also presents common postprocessing techniques required for correct data interpretation. This book provides students, academics, and researchers with detailed understanding of how machine learning algorithms can be applied to solve real case problems, how to prepare data, and how to interpret the results.

Precambrian Geotectonics in the Himalaya

• 1st Edition
• June 22, 2023
• B.K. Chakrabarti
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-91730-8

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• eBook 978-0-323-98344-0

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Precambrian Geotectonics in the Himalaya provides a deep overview on general geology and tectonics of all the Precambrian domains of the Himalayan terrain. Authored by an expert with over five decades of involvement with the Precambrian of the Himalaya and many years of laboratory, field, and publication experience, the book studies the “Window” zones in detail to provide a scope for understanding Precambrian deformation effects. The book fills a gap in literature on Himalayan geology, specifically covering the Precambrian geotectonic picture of the terrain. Considering Precambrian regional events are not clearly recognised or visualised in many sectors due to overlapping crystallines, this book details a Precambrian geotectonic framework of the terrain on which the Himalayan event evolved.Precambrian Geotectonics in the Himalaya is a necessary reference for Earth scientists, exploration and hazard management scientists, professors (and students) who carry out research what requires a comprehensive picture of the Precambrian Himalaya and in totality with the adjacent peninsula.

Satellite Interferometry Data Interpretation and Exploitation

• 1st Edition
• June 15, 2023
• Michele Crosetto + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-13397-8

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Satellite Interferometry Data Interpretation and Exploitation: Case Studies from the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) focuses on the interpretation and exploitation of data obtained from InSAR, thus enabling millimeter-scale deformation measurements from space. The most emblematic InSAR service, the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS), opens a wide range of new applications. However, for effective use of raw data, interpretation techniques and methods are required. This book presents interpretation protocols that can be applied to any InSAR data, as well as the most relevant technical aspects and boundaries of measurement points. Detailed case studies are reviewed to demonstrate points. This book will be a valuable resource for remote sensing specialists, as well as non-specialists in geotechnics, geology and other geosciences who are looking to apply InSAR data techniques in their research.

Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception

• 1st Edition
• June 9, 2023
• Emiliano Bruner
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-99193-3

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Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective on the evolution of the visuospatial ability in the human genus. It presents current topics in cognitive sciences and prehistoric archaeology, to provide a bridge between evolutionary anthropology and neurobiology. This book explores how body perception and spatial sensing may have evolved in humans, as to enhance a “prosthetic capacity” able to integrate the brain, body, and technological elements into a single functional system. It includes chapters on touch and haptics, peripersonal space, parietal lobe evolution, somatosensory integration, neuroarchaeology, visual behavior, attention, and psychometrics. Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception represents an essential resource for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and neuroscientists who are interested in the role of body perception and spatial ability in human cognition.

Small Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering with Applications to Geomaterials

• 1st Edition
• June 2, 2023
• Yixin Zhao + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-95297-2

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Small Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering with Applications to Geomaterials provides techniques for the analysis of geomaterials, which is of great significance for humans because geomaterials are related to earthquake, resource development, underground spaces, carbon dioxide storage, and more. The book introduces the fundamental theory of small angle X-ray and neutron scattering and covers pore accessibility characterization for natural rocks from four aspects, including quantitative evaluation of pore structure heterogeneity and anisotropy, quantification of pore modification in coals due to pulverization, estimation and modeling of coal pore accessibility, and nanoscale coal deformation and alteration of porosity and pore orientation under uniaxial compression. Finally, interactions between pore structures and fluid behaviors in geomaterials are introduced, along with the connections between small-angle scattering and other techniques (NMR cytophotometry, Transmission Electron Microscopy and synchrotron radiation SAXS and nano-CT) described.