Geology & The Lithosphere

This book includes new results of theoretical and experimental studies of various scales of the processes occurring on the earth including the lith...

Lanzarote is stunning, one of the best places in the world to engage first hand with volcanoes. Its landscapes are unique and beautiful, volcanoes ...

From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population p...

Science is increasingly driven by data, and spatial data underpin the science directions laid out in the 2007 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science...

This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education fo...

Satellite remote sensing is the primary tool for measuring global changes in the land, ocean, biosphere, and atmosphere. Over the past three decade...

Modern geoscience research informs many important decisions and projects, such as geological disaster preparation, natural resource extraction, and...

During geologic spans of time, Earth's shifting tectonic plates, atmosphere, freezing water, thawing ice, flowing rivers, and evolving life have sh...

Fractured rock is the host or foundation for innumerable engineered structures related to energy, water, waste, and transportation. Characterizing,...

 This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs ...

This book is devoted to the most important and urgent problems arising during the operation of underground gas storage facilities (UGS) and associa...

This book introduces the latest developments in long-span cable-supported composite cable-stayed bridges, suspension bridges, and mid- and through-...