Earth Sciences

Oil and gas still power the bulk of our world, from automobiles and the power plants that supply electricity to our homes and businesses, to jet fu...

"Under the Sea-Wind" presents a naturalist's picture of ocean life. This book is her breathtaking canvas of the fierce, competitive struggle for li...

A comprehensive review of the sources and impacts of different types of marine noise Measuring devices such as ocean bottom seismometers and hydrop...

Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilization. How can they be preserved under changing climatic condi...

The scientific expedition of H.M.S. Challenger in the 1870s marks the starting point of physical oceanography. This ship traveled the seas of the g...

From Stone to Star chronicles one of the great scientific adventures of our time. Written by the eminent geochemist Claude Allègre, it offers a fas...

In The Granite Landscape Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of...

Demystifies the academic career path with practical advice With the number of people being awarded PhDs growing far more rapidly than the supply of...

A Stanford University Press classic.

A technique for visualizing Earth's subsurface at high resolution Hidden out of sight in Earth’s subsurface are a range of geophysical structures, ...

Learn how the deep history of nature became a dominant paradigm of historical thinking, through a study of landscapes of India.Winner of the BSHS P...

A Stanford University Press classic.

All life is chemical. That fact underpins the developing field of ecological stoichiometry, the study of the balance of chemical elements in ecolog...

The Practice of Reproducible Research presents concrete examples of how researchers in the data-intensive sciences are working to improve the repro...

Since 1900, the science of geology has grown in a spectacular fashion. Not only have field studies been undertaken throughout vast areas of the ear...

Christopher McGowan sets out to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles. He makes fascinating compariso...

In the geological record, there are five major mass extinctions—the "Big Five." The most famous happened at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when ...

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...