The Late Triassic World

Lawrence H. Tanner

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period. Rather than presenting a collection of narrowly focused research papers, the volume consists of a series of peer-reviewed...

Geology of Afar (East Africa)

Jacques Varet

This book summarizes the geological knowledge accumulated on Afar in the last 60 years, demonstrating that it is, and will remain, a real “hot spot” for geological and geophysical research. It provides insights into the Earth processes along diverging plate...

A Play for Oil

Tim Daley

You hold in your hands the most original guide to understanding the oil and gas world – from exploration and production to the related economics and geopolitics. Tim Daley has spent years travelling the world and living as an expatriate in a quest to secure resources...

OpenGeoSys Tutorial

Johannes Boog , Wenkui He , Eunseon Jang , Thomas Kalbacher

This tutorial provides the application of the coupling interface OGS#IPhreeqc (open-source scientific software) to model reactive mass transport processes in environmental subsurface systems. It contains general information regarding reactive transport modeling and...

Geological Line Selection for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Engineering

Wenwu Chen , Jincheng Li , Zhengping Liu

This book describes the second phase of the Qinghai–Tibetan railway construction project and is the first technological book discussing the geological routing of the Qinghai–Tibetan railway project on the “roof of the world.” Based on practical experience of railway...

Rock Grouting at Dam Sites

Friedrich-Karl Ewert , Ulrich Hungsberg

This book focuses on the permeability of the foundation of dams, how to determine their state and how to tighten permeable rock to achieve safe foundations for large dams. It includes theoretical fundamentals as well as lessons learned in their application in practical...

Hypogene Karst Regions and Caves of the World

Collectif

This book illustrates the diversity of hypogene speleogenetic processes and void-conduit patterns depending on variations of the geological environments by presenting regional and cave-specific case studies. The cases include both well-known and newly recognized...

Vegetation History and Cultural Landscapes

Alexander Fehér

This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.). The...

Landscapes and Landforms of the Lesser Antilles

Casey D. Allen

This book focuses on the highly touristed, but surprisingly under-researched Lesser Antilles region. After offering a brief overview of the region’s geologic and tectonic history, as well as its basic climatology, subsequent chapters then discuss each island’s (or...

Coastal Wetlands: Alteration and Remediation

Charles W. Finkl , Christopher Makowski

This book delves into human-induced and natural impacts on coastal wetlands, intended or otherwise, through a series of vignettes that elucidate the environmental insults and efforts at amelioration and remediation. The alteration, and subsequent restoration, of wetland...

Earthquake-Induced Landslides

Yingbin Zhang

This book sheds new light on improved methods for the study of the initiation and run-out of earthquake-induced landslides. It includes an initiation study method that considers tension-shear failure mechanism; an improved, rigorous, dynamic sliding-block method based...

Mammoth Cave

David C. Culver , Horton H. Hobbs Iii , Rickard A Olson , Elizabeth G Winkler

This book reveals the science and beauty of Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave, which has played an important role in the natural sciences. It offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of the cave, combining insights from leading experts in fields...

Geoscientists at Crime Scenes

Pier Matteo Barone , Rosa Maria Di Maggio

This book presents the forensic geoscience in general and, in particular, in Italy and their application to peculiar crimes.  Italy is internationally relevant due to the presence of different kinds of “geo-crimes” (in the first place, environmental mafia), and is...

Dictionary of Mathematical Geosciences

Richard J. Howarth

This dictionary includes a number of mathematical, statistical and computing terms and their definitions to assist geoscientists and provide guidance on the methods and terminology encountered in the literature. Each technical term used in the explanations can be found...

The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle

Agust Gudmundsson

This is the first book describing the glorious geology of Iceland’s Golden Circle and four additional excursions:(1) the beautiful valleys and mountains of the fjord of Hvalfjördur, (2) the unique landscape and geothermal fields of the Hengill Volcano, (3) the...

Oil and Gas Exploration in Cuba

Jorge Luis Cobiella Reguera , Manuel Enrique Pardo Echarte

A summary of the results achieved in the geological-structural mapping, by potential fields and airborne gamma spectrometry data, of the units of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the western regions (Havana-Matanzas), central (Cienfuegos, Villa Clara-Sancti Spiritus)...

Pre-carboniferous Evolution of the San Rafael Block, Argentina

Carlos Alberto Cingolani

Integrated Reservoir Studies for CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery and Sequestration

Shib Sankar Ganguli

This book addresses the feasibility of CO2-EOR and sequestration in a mature Indian oil field, pursuing for the first time a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the results from reservoir modeling and flow simulation, rock physics modeling, geomechanics, and...

Geological Storage of CO2 in Deep Saline Formations

Jacob Bear , Jacob Bensabat , Jacob Bear , Auli Niemi

This book offers readers a comprehensive overview, and an in-depth understanding, of suitable methods for quantifying and characterizing saline aquifers for the geological storage of CO2. It begins with a general overview of the methodology and the processes that take...

The Ancient Nasca World

Rosa Lasaponara , Nicola Masini , Giuseppe Orefici

This book presents outstanding chapter contributions on the Nasca culture in a variety of artistic expressions such as architecture, geoglyphs, ceramics, music, and textiles.The approach, based on the integration of science with archaeology and anthropology, sheds new...