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Advances in earth science : from earthquakes to global warming /

Advances in Earth Science outlines the latest developments and new research directions currently being made world-wide in the earth sciences. It contains invited and refereed articles by leading younger researchers on their cutting-edge research, but aimed at a general scientific audience. This exci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sammonds, P. R. (Peter R.), Thompson, J. M. T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2007.
Colección:Royal Society series on advances in science ; v. 2.
Philosophical transactions. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: price of climate change / David S. Reay
  • Carbon in the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere in the early anthropocene / Yadvinder Malhi
  • Dust in the earth system : the biogeochemical linking of land, air, and sea / Andy Ridgwell / Karen E. Kohfeld
  • late permian mass extinction event and recovery : biological catastrophe in a greenhouse world / Richard J. Twitchett
  • Space-plasma imaging
  • past, present, and future / Cathryn N. Mitchell
  • Fault structure, stress, friction and rupture dynamics of earthquakes / Eiichi Fukayama
  • Some remarks on the time scales of magmatic processes occurring beneath island arc volcanoes / Simon P. Turner
  • break-up of continents and the generation of ocean basins / T.A. Minshull
  • Properties and evolution of the earth's core and geodynamo / F. Nimmo / D. Alfe
  • Giant catastrophic landslides / Christopher R.J. Kilburn
  • Remote monitoring of the earthquake cycle using satellite radar interferometry / Tim J. Wright
  • Human influence on the global geochemical cycle of lead / Dominik J. Weiss / Malin E. Kylander / Matthew K. Reuer
  • Natural and artificial platinum and palladium occurrences world-wide / Hazel M. Prichard.