Earth Sciences

At 14,110 feet, the weather station atop Pikes Peak, Colorado, was the highest in the world in 1873. Young men trained by the Signal Corps took tur...

How did the Sierra Nevada and adjacent lands come to be the size and shape they are today? This book covers 400 million years of physical evolution...

A remarkable scientific meditation on and spiritual exploration of one of our least appreciated natural resources—the Atlantic Ocean. Not since Rac...

A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of researc...

'Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting,' writes Doug Macdougall. 'It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper.' In "Na...

Lakes change constantly in response to their surrounding landscape, and their airshed. Mirror Lake, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire...

Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, "Watching Giants" opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that under...

A history of the early days of fossil hunting in America, replete with high adventure, ruthless competitors, and amazing scientific discoveries The...

Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity...

How is it possible that Earth's atmospheric temperature has remained perfectly suited to supporting life for billions of years? Why do oxygen level...

Download PDF of corrected version of Chapter 32A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this disti...

A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of researc...

Outlines the concept and principles of water harvesting for groundwater management for an international audience, and looks at the positives and ne...

This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution: Proconsul, a fossil ape named whimsi...

The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century. New specimens, some of them breathtakingly...

Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two - in part because it is also ...

New scientific discoveries in the Congo Basin as a result of international collaborations The Congo is the world's second largest river basin and h...

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Hag...

This exciting new volume will provide a comprehensive overview of the applications of geoinformatics technology for engineers, scientists, and stud...