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Solid-earth sciences and society : a critical assessment /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy of Sciences,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Executive summary : Present state of the solid-earth sciences
- Priorities
- Planning for the future
- Recommendations
- Global overview : Essay on the earth sciences
- The earth and its components
- Unifying forces in the geological sciences
- Goals of the earth sciences: research framework
- Priority themes: research areas
- Priority themes: objectives
- Research support
- Instrumentation, computational capability, and data management
- Education and employment
- International scope
- Organization of the report
- Understanding our active planet : Essay: the dynamic earth
- Origin of the earth
- Structure and dynamics of the solid earth
- Earthquakes: consequences of a dynamic mantle
- Volcanic activity: consequence of convecting mantle
- Ocean basin processes
- Continental structure and evolution
- Geochemical cycles
- Interaction between the solid earth and its fluid envelopes
- Research opportunities
- Facilities, equipment, and data bases
- The global environment and its evolution : The global environment : a geological perspective
- Change in the global environment
- Modeling the earth system.
- Research opportunities
- Resources of the solid earth : Essay: natural exploitation
- Rock-fluid interactions
- Water resources
- Mineral resources
- Energy resources
- Resource dependency
- Research opportunities
- Hazards, land use, and environmental change : Essay: a fraction of the earth's surface
- Geomorphic hazards
- Tectonic hazards
- Hazards of extraterrestrial origin
- Problems related to population concentration
- Global change
- Research opportunities
- Ensuring excellence and the national well-being : Roles, numbers, and backgrounds of solid-earth scientists
- Education in the solid-earth sciences
- Instrumentation and facilities
- Data gathering and handling
- Global collaboration
- Recommendations
- Research priorities and recommendations : Setting research priorities
- Previous recommendations and initiatives
- Goals, research areas, objectives, and research opportunities
- Priority themes and research selections
- Research implementation: facilities, equipment, and data needs
- Financial support of priority research
- Recommendations.