Volcanology & Seismology

Volcanoes are unquestionably one of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring features of the physical world. Our paradoxical fascination with them st...

This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith be...

In addition to the printed, hardcover version, AVO also is available in PDF format on a USB drive. To aid the reader in accessing key developmental...

Evolution of a Continental Margin Transform Plate Boundary: The San Clemente Fault System Offshore Southern California provides a major advance in ...

'If Michael Palin had been a volcanologist, this is the book he would have written' LITERARY REVIEW'Gripping' THE ECONOMIST 'Wonderful' PETER FRANK...

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a h...

Discover Gt Aide (Global), the freeware that makes learning and exploring Earth science as easy as playing a game through this book. The freeware i...

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

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today. Since...

This book focuses on the characterization of fault damage zones and subsurface structure systems quantitatively for the first time. It provides a c...

This book strives to fill in the following gaps. First, there is no comprehensive descriptive treatment of deposits emplaced by lahars, debris aval...

Over the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere have increased, mainly due to population growth and anthropogenic ac...

This book represents a significant contribution to the area of earthquake data processing and to the development of region-specific magnitude corre...

The world's leading student text on physical volcanology offers an unmatched introduction to the field In the newly revised second edition of Funda...

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology co...

Vyacheslav M. Zobins Introduction to Volcanic Seismology has steadily grown over time, offering a deeper look at the latest developments in volcani...

The impact of natural disasters has become an important and ever-growing preoccupation for modern societies. Volcanic eruptions are particularly fe...

The first effective seismographs were built between 1879 and 1890. In 1885, E. S. Holden, an astronomer and then president of the University of Cal...

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atl...

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atl...

The study of the seismic cycle has many applications, from the study of faulting to the estimation of seismic hazards. It must be considered at dif...

Christopher Scholz, an internationally recognized expert in the geological fields of seismology and tectonics, here offers a captivating memoir of ...

Christopher Scholz, an internationally recognized expert in the geological fields of seismology and tectonics, here offers a captivating memoir of ...

Science Is Never Settled Thousands of scientists are convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that recent global warming is being caused by emissio...

Earthquake and Volcano Deformation is the first textbook to present the mechanical models of earthquake and volcanic processes, emphasizing earth-s...

Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and Nor...

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of seismic design and performance of steel structures, as pr...

Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the regions beauty and one of its most ...

Building upon the award-winning second edition, this comprehensive textbook provides a fundamental understanding of the formative processes of igne...

The magnitude Ms 8.0 (Mw 7.9) Wenchuan earthquake occurred on 12 May 2008 in the Longmen Shan region of Chinathe topographical boundary between the...

Discover the mind-boggling science of the coming apocalypse! 'Curiously pleasurable this will help you get your everyday problems into perspective...