Analogue and numerical modelling of sedimentary systems [[electronic resource] ] : from understanding to prediction / / edited by Poppe de Boer ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910146119303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, : International Association of Sedimentologists, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-00787-4; 9786612007873; 1-4443-0313-9; 1-4443-0314-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Collana: Special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists ; ; number 40
• Altri autori (Persone): BoerPoppe Lubberts de <1949->
• Disciplina: 552.5; 552/.5
• Soggetti: Geology - Italy - Dolomite Alps; Geology, Stratigraphic - Mesozoic; Carbonate rocks - Italy - Dolomite Alps; Sedimentary basins - Italy - Dolomite Alps; Sedimentary structures - Italy - Dolomite Alps - Mathematical models; Sequence stratigraphy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Predicting discharge and sediment flux of the Po River, Italy sincethe Last Glacial MaximumALBERT J. KETTNER and JAMES P.M. SYVITSKIImpact of discharge, sediment flux and sea-level change onstratigraphic architecture of river-delta-shelf systemsGEORGE POSTMA and AART PETER VAN DEN BERG VAN SAPAROEA; Grain-size sorting of river-shelf-slope sediments duringglacial-interglacial cycles: modelling grain-size distributionand interconnectedness of coarse-grained bodiesXANDER D.MEIJER; Modelling the preservation of sedimentary deposits on passivecontinental margins during glacial-interglacial cyclesXANDER D.MEIJER, GEORGE POSTMA, PETER A.BURROUGH and POPPE L.DE ; BOERModelling source-rock distribution and quality variations:the organic facies modelling approachUTE MANN and JANINE ZWEIGEL1; Spatial data templates: combining simple models ofphysical processes with stochastic noise to yield stable,archetypal landformsPETER A.BURROUGH 1; Models that talk backJOHN C.TIPPER; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Understanding basin-fill evolution and the origin of stratal architectures has traditionally been based on studies of outcrops, well and seismic data, studies of and inferences on qualitative geological processes, and to a lesser extent based on quantitative observations of modern and ancient sedimentary environments. Insight gained on the basis of these studies can increasingly be tested and extended through the application of numerical and analogue forward models. Present-day stratigraphic forward modelling follows two principle lines: 1) the deterministic process-based approach, ideally w

Infinity beckoned : adventuring through the inner solar system, 1969-1989 / / Jay Gallentine ; foreword by Bobak Ferdowsi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815469503321
• Autore: Gallentine Jay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-8032-8515-9; 0-8032-8517-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 p.)
• Collana: Outward Odyssey, A People's History of Spaceflight
• Classificazione: HIS037070
• Disciplina: 629.43/54
• Soggetti: Space probes - History - 20th century; Artificial satellites - History - 20th century; Inner planets - Exploration - History - 20th century; Astronautics; Astronautics - History - 20th century; Moon Exploration History 20th century; Outer space Exploration History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Beach Brainstorm; 2. What If; 3. Dead at Birth; 4. Failure to Communicate; 5. Halt the Work, Destroy All Materials; 6. There and Back Again; 7. Sitting Cosmonauts; 8. Cauldron of Contradictions; 9. Buy- In; 10. "Prepared Area"; 11. Laying Eggs (Somehow); 12. How Low Can You Go?; 13. Three Mistakes; 14. Devil from Redondo; 15. The Boy to Be Beaten; 16. How to Buy a Computer That Does Not Exist; 17. Downsurfing; 18. Gulliver's Travels; 19. Too Much Too Soon; 20. Scientific Charity; 21. Last Man Home22. Bonneville, Notch Rock, Double Squirt, Sudden Death; 23. Postmortem; 24. Sons of a Bitch; 25. The Sum of All Nations; 26. Hang Time; 27. The Rules of Resigning; 28. Wonders Never Cease; Sources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia's director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated. Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos"--; "Account of unmanned lunar and planetary exploration from the early 1970s to the early 1990s"--