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

South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs

José L. Carballido , Alejandro Otero , Diego Pol

Sauropodomorpha Huene 1932 is one of the most successful groups of dinosaurs, including the most abundant and diverse herbivorous forms with a worldwide record, extending from the late Triassic to the late Cretaceous. Sauropodomorphs comprise a diverse assemblage of...

Intensified Land and Water Use

Margarita María Alconada-Magliano

This book combines multidisciplinary studies on the environmental consequences of intensified use of land and water, and the fusion of land to provide food for a growing population. Studies on water, vegetation, and soil are addressed from an environmental management...

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

Analía M. Forasiepi , Agustín G. Martinelli , Guillermo W. Rougier

This book summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals’ evolution, their close ancestors and their immediate descendants. Mammals evolved in a systematically diverse world,...

Advances in Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in Argentina

Andrés Bilmes , Pablo Bouza , Jorge Rabassa

This book presents selected research highlights from the Seventh Argentine Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies Congress, hosted at Puerto Madryn, Northern Patagonia, Argentina by the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies (AACYG). The...

Ichnology of the Lowlands of South America

José Herminio Laza

Ichnology is the science of marks, tracks, trails, traces structures and other sources of evidence of biological activity, beyond the living beings themselves, when studied both in continents and oceans. In spite of its scientific value and interdisciplinary...

Textures, Structures and Processes of Volcanic Successions

Clara Eugenia Cisterna , Beatriz L.L. Coira

This book provides a complete study of the Central Andean volcanism and its most distinctive features, from the lower Paleozoic to the Cenozoic times in the framework of its processes, eruptive mechanisms and geodynamic conditions.It helps readers understand the nature...

Opening and Closure of the Neuquén Basin in the Southern Andes

Andrés Folguera , Diego Kietzmann

This book provides an overview of newly gathered material focusing on the opening and closure of The Neuquén Basin. The Neuquén Basin contains the most important hydrocarbon reservoirs in Argentina and therefore is characterized by a profound knowledge of the...

Seeds of Restoration Success

Kayri Havens , Sara F. Oldfield , Peggy Olwell , Nancy Shaw

This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.S., the key plant species that help define them, the pressures faced by natural ecosystems and the imperative for conservation and restoration. It addresses the policies that...

Advances in Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in Argentina

Mirian M. Collantes , Adriana Niz , Laura Perucca , Jorge Rabassa

These proceedings contain selected papers from the Special Symposium, organised by the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in October 2017. This Symposium was held within the frame of the 20th Argentine Geological Congress in Tucumán,...

Studies of the Biogeochemistry of Typical Estuaries and Bays in China

Zhiliang Shen

This book presents study findings involving the Changjiang River estuary and Jiaozhou Bay, China, etc. It takes a large catchment as a combined ecosystem to study nutrients biogeochemistry and environmental aspects of the Changjiang River. Some of the findings have...

Innovative Approaches and Applications for Sustainable Rural Development

Athanasios Ragkos , Michail Salampasis , Alexandros Theodoridis

This book presents selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2017) which examine sustainable rural development in the context of environmental, economic, and the...

Advances in South American Micropaleontology

Emiliana Bernasconi , Graciela Andrea Concheyro , Gabriela Catalina Cusminsky

This book offers many examples of calcareous microfossils and describes a new microfaunistic record in Argentina. These selected papers of the 11th Argentine Paleontological Congress include micropaleontological studies on material of different geological ages from...

‘Moving towards Risk' - A Melancholic Story of Punjab Satluj Floodplain

Harsimrat Kaur

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception. As a landscape this floodplain entity evolves and sets a niche to distinctive natural and cultural aspects. The historical reconstruction of the landscape transformation depicts the...

The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes

Collectif

This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics;...

Carbon Cycle in the Changing Arid Land of China

Xiujun Wang , Jiaping Wang , Zhitong Yu , Juan Zhang

This book integrates the analyses of organic carbon and carbonate accumulation in soil and lake sediment in a typical arid region of China that has experienced significant climate and land-use changes.It demonstrates that carbonate accumulation greatly exceeds organic...

Advances in Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in Argentina

Jorge Rabassa

This proceedings volume presents selected research highlights from the Sixth Argentine Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies Congress, hosted at CADIC, Ushuaia, on April 8–12, 2015 by the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies (AACYG). The congress...

Pre-carboniferous Evolution of the San Rafael Block, Argentina

Carlos Alberto Cingolani

Late Cenozoic of Península Valdés, Patagonia, Argentina

Andrés Bilmes , Pablo Bouza

This book presents extensive and new information on the Cenozoic marine and continental systems of one of the most important World Heritage sites of Southern South America: The Península Valdés. Using an interdisciplinary approach, that includes geological, biological...

Gondwana Industrial Clays

María Susana Conconi , Martín Eduardo Morosi , Patricia Eugenia Zalba

This book is a study of the sedimentary and residual deposits of the Tandilia System, also known as the Sierras Septentrionales of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Offering an overview of the geology, stratigraphy, petrology, mineralogy and industrial applications of these...

Marine Isotope Stage 3 in Southern South America, 60 KA B.P.-30 KA B.P.

Cecilia Deschamps , Germán Mariano Gasparini , Jorge Rabassa , Eduardo Pedro Tonni

This book presents isotope data reflecting changes in temperature derived from core samples in South America. Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) is examined in detail with respect to Stage 3. With over 20 chapters, this detailed treatise discusses high climatic variability,...