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Advances in earth science : from earthquakes to global warming / editors, P.R. Sammonds, J.M.T. Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Royal Society series on advances in science ; v. 2.
- Royal Society series on advances in science ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Earth sciences.
- Global environmental change.
- Geodynamics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Publishing, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Advances in Earth Science outlines the latest developments and new research directions currently being made world-wide in the earth sciences. It contains invited and refereed articles by leading younger researchers on their cutting-edge research, but aimed at a general scientific audience. This exciting volume explains how powerful methodologies such as satellite remote sensing and supercomputing simulations are now profoundly changing research in the earth sciences; how the earth system is increasingly being viewed in a holistic way, linking the atmosphere, ocean and solid earth; and how the
- Contents:
- Preface Chris Hawkesworth, FRS; Profiles of the Editors and Authors; CONTENTS; Introduction Peter Sammonds; Section 1: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; Section 2: DYNAMICS OF THE EARTH; Section 3: APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE; Afterword Bill McGuire; Index
- Notes:
- " ... articles originating from invited papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, [series A]."-- P. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611120641
- 9781281120649
- 1281120642
- 9781860948718
- 1860948715
- OCLC:
- 299750865
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