All ebooks in the collection "Frontiers in Earth Sciences" - Springer

Paleoclimatology

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This two-volume book provides a comprehensive, detailed understanding of paleoclimatology beginning by describing the “proxy data” from which quantitative climate parameters are reconstructed and finally by developing a comprehensive Earth system model able to simulate...

Geology and Tectonics of Northwestern South America

Fabio Cediel , Robert Peter Shaw

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geological evolution of the Northern Andes and contiguous shield areas, with a focus upon Colombia. Updated geological interpretations are supported by modern lithogeochemical, seismic, gravity and magnetic data and...

The EPICA-DML Deep Ice Core

Sérgio Henrique Faria , Sepp Kipfstuhl , Anja Lambrecht

The line-scan images collected in this book represent the most accurate optical record of Antarctic ice cores ever presented, providing an invaluable resource for glaciologists and climate modellers, as well as a fascinating compilation of ice core images for Antarctica...

Lithosphere Dynamics and Sedimentary Basins of the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Areas

Mansour A. M. Al Garni , Ammar A. Amin , Sami Khomsi , François Roure

This book focuses on the links between deep earth (mantle) and shallow processes in areas of active tectonics in the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Areas. It also provides key information for energy resources in these areas. The book is a compilation of...

Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation

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 Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire Earth system. One...

Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation

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Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes. Punctuating that evolution were several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire...

Lithosphere Dynamics and Sedimentary Basins: The Arabian Plate and Analogues

Khalid Al Hosani , Richard Ellison , Stephen Lokier , Francois Roure

This book will constitute the proceedings of the ILP Workshop held in Abu Dhabi in December 2009. It will include a reprint of the 11 papers published in the December 2010 issue of the AJGS, together with 11 other original papers.

Arc-Continent Collision

Dennis Brown , Paul D. Ryan

Arc-continent collision has been one of the important tectonic processes in the formation of mountain belts throughout geological time, and it continues to be so today along tectonically active plate boundaries such as those in the SW Pacific or the Caribbean....

Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins

Olivier Lacombe , Jérôme Lavé , Francois M. Roure , Jaume Verges

The Andes

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Convergent plate margins and subduction zones are first order features shaping the Earth.Convergent continental margins combine the majority of processes that affect the internal architecture thermal and geochemical character of continental lith- phere. In addition, the...