Earth Sciences

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history ...

ASTROBIOLOGY This unique book advances the frontier discussion of a wide spectrum of astrobiological issues on scientific advances, space ethics, s...

An examination of ancient and contemporary submarine landslides and their impact Landslides are common in every subaqueous geodynamic context, from...

A peer reviewed, comprehensive encyclopedia that reflects the current state of water science and engineering from multidisciplinary global viewpoin...

Winner of the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota’s geology, set against the b...

Erkunden Sie die unendlichen Weiten der Ozeane, wie sie funktionieren und welche Kreaturen dort leben. Ashlan und Philippe Cousteau erklären Ozeane...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022 'A joyful collision of science, history and nature writing' Helen Gordon, author of Notes fro...

Explores the complex physico-chemical processes involved in active volcanism and dynamic magmatism Understanding the magmatic processes responsible...

The most comprehensive and in-depth study of the formation, practical applications, history, and natural recycling of salt, including the global an...

Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic Era. In Beast Companions: The Unsung Animals of the Dino...

Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion ...

The theory of linear poroelasticity describes the interaction between mechanical effects and adding or removing fluid from rock. It is critical to ...

This book places into modern context the information by which North American mammalian paleontologists recognize, divide, calibrate, and discuss in...

Taking us back to the birth of New England’s forests, Sheila Connor shows us these trees evolving amidst a succession of human cultures, from the a...

This book sets forth the physical, mathematical, and numerical foundations of computer models used to understand and predict the global ocean clima...

A Stanford University Press classic.

This rigorous and up-to-date synthesis of current research and thought in igneous petrology explores the complex process of the generation and cool...

Traditionally, investigations of the rheology and deformation of the lithosphere (the rigid or mechanically strong outer layer of the Earth, which ...

First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches tha...

Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware...

In this revision of the calanoid copepod family Heterorhabdidae, 7 genera and 59 species are recognized, and 25 species are described as new. Inclu...

"California Rivers and Streams" provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers a...

This is a study of the Miocene Carmel flora of California, an evergreen laurel-oak forest that grew in a mild temperate (mean annual temperature of...

An Eocene (45 Ma) flora from Thunder Mountain caldera shows that montane conifer forest species from upper slopes descended to interfinger with mix...

"In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding o...

The author describes forty-two fossil taxa recovered during a study of the San Timoteo Badlands that used magnetobiostratigraphy to develop a tempo...

A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land...

The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable b...

Each year, the concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the mixed layer at Station S in the Sargasso Sea decreases from winter to summe...

This flora of 70 species is dominated by deciduous trees, many with descendants in China. Precipitation was 890 mm, mean annual temperature 12.5!C,...