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Curbing catastrophe : natural hazards and risk reduction in the modern world / / Timothy H. Dixon
Curbing catastrophe : natural hazards and risk reduction in the modern world / / Timothy H. Dixon
Autore Dixon Timothy H.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxi, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 363.34/7
Soggetto topico Natural disasters - Prevention
Disaster relief - Planning
Emergency management
Hazard mitigation
ISBN 1-108-10958-6
1-108-11026-6
1-108-10549-1
1-139-54734-8
1-108-11094-0
1-108-11162-9
1-108-11434-2
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Black and white swans, evolution, and markets; 2. What is a natural disaster? Where do they occur, and why? Are they different from human-made disasters?; 3. If we know so much about natural disasters, why are we so vulnerable?; 4. Japanese earthquakes and nuclear power plant failures; 5. Future earthquake disasters in Seattle and Istanbul; 6. Nuclear power, coal, and tuna: the concept of relative risk; 7. Past and future coastal flooding: Galveston, New Orleans, Bangladesh, and the specter of sea level rise; 8. What's all the fuss about global warming?; 9. Solutions; References and further reading; Index; Online appendices: Appendix 1. Additional background material and exercises for students; Appendix 2. Colour figures.
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Dixon Timothy H.  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017
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Drivers of landscape change in the Northwest Boreal Region / / editors, Amanda L. Sesser [et al.]
Drivers of landscape change in the Northwest Boreal Region / / editors, Amanda L. Sesser [et al.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa University of Alaska Press
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (337 pages)
Disciplina 304.209798
Soggetto topico Environmental protection - Alberta - Northwest Boreal Region
Environmental protection - Alaska
Landscape protection - Alberta - Northwest Boreal Region
Landscape protection - Alaska
ISBN 1-60223-398-5
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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Drivers of landscape change in the Northwest Boreal Region / / editors, Amanda L. Sesser [et al.]
Drivers of landscape change in the Northwest Boreal Region / / editors, Amanda L. Sesser [et al.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa University of Alaska Press
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (337 pages)
Disciplina 304.209798
Soggetto topico Environmental protection - Alberta - Northwest Boreal Region
Environmental protection - Alaska
Landscape protection - Alberta - Northwest Boreal Region
Landscape protection - Alaska
ISBN 1-60223-398-5
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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University of Alaska Press
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The Earth : its birth and growth / / Minoru Ozima, Jun Korenaga, Qing-zhu Yin [[electronic resource]]
The Earth : its birth and growth / / Minoru Ozima, Jun Korenaga, Qing-zhu Yin [[electronic resource]]
Autore Ojima Minoru
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (x, 150 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 550
ISBN 1-107-22451-9
1-139-36545-2
1-280-64727-2
1-139-37797-3
9786613633323
1-139-37511-3
0-511-98037-X
1-139-37654-3
1-139-37112-6
1-139-37940-2
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Heat from within: energy supporting the dynamic Earth; 2. At the time of Earth's birth; 3. Formation of the layered structure of Earth; 4. Time scale of Earth's evolution; 5. Plate tectonics evolution; 6. Evolution of the mantle; 7. Origin of the atmosphere and oceans; 8. Isotopes as DNA of nature; 9. Earth's magnetism; 10. Moon: a looking glass to mirror the ancient Earth; 11. The past and future of the evolving Earth; References; Index.
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Ojima Minoru  
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The Earth : its birth and growth / / Minoru Ozima, Professor emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo; Jun Korenaga, Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University; Qing-zhu Yin, Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis
The Earth : its birth and growth / / Minoru Ozima, Professor emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo; Jun Korenaga, Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University; Qing-zhu Yin, Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis
Autore Ojima Minoru
Edizione [2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (x, 150 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 550
Altri autori (Persone) KorenagaJun
YinQing-zhu
Soggetto topico Geology, Structural
ISBN 1-107-22451-9
1-139-36545-2
1-280-64727-2
1-139-37797-3
9786613633323
1-139-37511-3
0-511-98037-X
1-139-37654-3
1-139-37112-6
1-139-37940-2
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Heat from within: energy supporting the dynamic Earth; 2. At the time of Earth's birth; 3. Formation of the layered structure of Earth; 4. Time scale of Earth's evolution; 5. Plate tectonics evolution; 6. Evolution of the mantle; 7. Origin of the atmosphere and oceans; 8. Isotopes as DNA of nature; 9. Earth's magnetism; 10. Moon: a looking glass to mirror the ancient Earth; 11. The past and future of the evolving Earth; References; Index.
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Ojima Minoru  
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Future Earth : advancing civic understanding of the anthropocene / / Diana Dalbotten, Gillian Roehrig, Patrick Hamilton, editors
Future Earth : advancing civic understanding of the anthropocene / / Diana Dalbotten, Gillian Roehrig, Patrick Hamilton, editors
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Washington, District of Columbia ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : American Geophysical Union : , : Wiley, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (149 p.)
Disciplina 304.2
Collana Geophysical Monograph Series
Soggetto topico Geological time
Global environmental change
Communication in science
ISBN 1-118-85419-5
1-118-85428-4
1-118-85426-8
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Future Earth--Advancing Civic Understanding of the Anthropocene Acknowledgements Preface Patrick Hamilton Chapter 1. Welcome to the Anthropocene Patrick Hamilton Chapter 2. The Anthropocene and the Framework for K-12 Science Education Fred N. Finley Chapter 3. Teacher Professional Development in the Anthropocene Devarati Bhattacharya, Gillian Roehrig, Anne Kern, and Mindy Howard Chapter 4. Climate Literacy and Scientific Reasoning Shiyu Liu, Keisha Varma, and Gillian Roehrig Chapter 5. Evaluation and Assessment of Civic Understanding of Planet Earth Julie C. Libarkin Chapter 6. Community-Driven Research in the Anthropocene Rajul Pandya Chapter 7. Geoscience Alliance: Building Capacity to Use Science for Sovereignty in Native Communities Nievita Bueno Watts, Wendy Smythe, Emily Geraghty Ward, Diana Dalbotten, Vanessa Green, Merv Tano, and Antony Berthelote Chapter 8. New Voices: The Role of Undergraduate Geoscience Research in Supporting Alternative Perspectives on the Anthropocene Diana Dalbotten, Rebecca Haaker-Santos, and Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer Chapter 9. Shaping the Public Dialogue on Climate Change William Spitzer Chapter 10. Opportunities for Communicating Ocean Acidification to Visitors at Informal Science Education Institutions Douglas Meyer and Bill Mott Chapter 11. City-wide Collaborations for Urban Climate Education Steven Snyder, Rita Mukherjee Hoffstadt, Lauren B. Allen, Kevin Crowley, Daniel Bader, and Radley Horton Chapter 12. On Bridging the Journalism/Science Divide Bud Ward .
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Future Earth : advancing civic understanding of the anthropocene / / Diana Dalbotten, Gillian Roehrig, Patrick Hamilton, editors
Future Earth : advancing civic understanding of the anthropocene / / Diana Dalbotten, Gillian Roehrig, Patrick Hamilton, editors
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Washington, District of Columbia ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : American Geophysical Union : , : Wiley, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (149 p.)
Disciplina 304.2
Collana Geophysical Monograph Series
Soggetto topico Geological time
Global environmental change
Communication in science
ISBN 1-118-85419-5
1-118-85428-4
1-118-85426-8
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Future Earth--Advancing Civic Understanding of the Anthropocene Acknowledgements Preface Patrick Hamilton Chapter 1. Welcome to the Anthropocene Patrick Hamilton Chapter 2. The Anthropocene and the Framework for K-12 Science Education Fred N. Finley Chapter 3. Teacher Professional Development in the Anthropocene Devarati Bhattacharya, Gillian Roehrig, Anne Kern, and Mindy Howard Chapter 4. Climate Literacy and Scientific Reasoning Shiyu Liu, Keisha Varma, and Gillian Roehrig Chapter 5. Evaluation and Assessment of Civic Understanding of Planet Earth Julie C. Libarkin Chapter 6. Community-Driven Research in the Anthropocene Rajul Pandya Chapter 7. Geoscience Alliance: Building Capacity to Use Science for Sovereignty in Native Communities Nievita Bueno Watts, Wendy Smythe, Emily Geraghty Ward, Diana Dalbotten, Vanessa Green, Merv Tano, and Antony Berthelote Chapter 8. New Voices: The Role of Undergraduate Geoscience Research in Supporting Alternative Perspectives on the Anthropocene Diana Dalbotten, Rebecca Haaker-Santos, and Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer Chapter 9. Shaping the Public Dialogue on Climate Change William Spitzer Chapter 10. Opportunities for Communicating Ocean Acidification to Visitors at Informal Science Education Institutions Douglas Meyer and Bill Mott Chapter 11. City-wide Collaborations for Urban Climate Education Steven Snyder, Rita Mukherjee Hoffstadt, Lauren B. Allen, Kevin Crowley, Daniel Bader, and Radley Horton Chapter 12. On Bridging the Journalism/Science Divide Bud Ward .
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The Galápagos : a natural laboratory for the Earth sciences / / Karen S. Harpp [and three others], editors
The Galápagos : a natural laboratory for the Earth sciences / / Karen S. Harpp [and three others], editors
Pubbl/distr/stampa Washington, District of Columbia ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : American Geophysical Union : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (445 p.)
Disciplina 508.866/5
Collana Geophysical Monograph Series
Soggetto topico Geology - Galapagos Islands
Biodiversity - Galapagos Islands
Biogeography - Galapagos Islands
ISBN 1-118-85268-0
1-118-85253-2
1-118-85256-7
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents for Galapagos Monograph Foreword: Peter Grant and Randal Keynes Introductio Contrasting Volcanism in Hawai'i and Galapagos Galapagos and Easter: A Tale of Two Hotspot Eruption Rates for Fernandina Volcano: A New Chronology at the Galapagos Hotspot Center Galapagos Magma Chambers The Geology and Geochemistry of Isla Floreana, Galapagos: A Different Type of Late-Stage Ocean Island Volcanism Plate Tectonics, Evolution, and the Survival of Species: A Modern Day Hotspot A Paleogeographic Model of the Galapagos Islands and Biogeographical and Evolutionary Implications Hydrogeology of the Galapagos Archipelago: An Integrated and Comparative Approach Between Islands Controls on the Hydrological and Topographic Evolution of Shield Volcanoes and Volcanic Ocean Islands Climate and the Global Reach of the Galapagos Archipelago: State of the Knowledge Assessment of the Chile 2010 and Japan 2011 Tsunami Events in the Galapagos Islands Patterns in Galapagos Magmatism Arising from the Upper Mantle Dynamics of Plume-Ridge Interaction Variations in Crustal Thickness, Plate Rigidity, and Volcanic Processes throughout the Northern Galapagos Volcanic Province Plume-Ridge Interaction in the Galapagos: Perspectives from Wolf, Darwin, and Genovesa Islands A Preliminary Survey of the Northeast Seamounts, Galapagos Platform Effect of Variations in Magma Supply on the Crustal Structure of Mid-Ocean Ridges: Insights from the Western Galapagos Spreading Center Helium Isotope Variations and Mantle Plume-Spreading Ridge Interactions Along the Galapagos Spreading Center .
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The Galápagos : a natural laboratory for the Earth sciences / / Karen S. Harpp [and three others], editors
The Galápagos : a natural laboratory for the Earth sciences / / Karen S. Harpp [and three others], editors
Pubbl/distr/stampa Washington, District of Columbia ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : American Geophysical Union : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (445 p.)
Disciplina 508.866/5
Collana Geophysical Monograph Series
Soggetto topico Geology - Galapagos Islands
Biodiversity - Galapagos Islands
Biogeography - Galapagos Islands
ISBN 1-118-85268-0
1-118-85253-2
1-118-85256-7
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents for Galapagos Monograph Foreword: Peter Grant and Randal Keynes Introductio Contrasting Volcanism in Hawai'i and Galapagos Galapagos and Easter: A Tale of Two Hotspot Eruption Rates for Fernandina Volcano: A New Chronology at the Galapagos Hotspot Center Galapagos Magma Chambers The Geology and Geochemistry of Isla Floreana, Galapagos: A Different Type of Late-Stage Ocean Island Volcanism Plate Tectonics, Evolution, and the Survival of Species: A Modern Day Hotspot A Paleogeographic Model of the Galapagos Islands and Biogeographical and Evolutionary Implications Hydrogeology of the Galapagos Archipelago: An Integrated and Comparative Approach Between Islands Controls on the Hydrological and Topographic Evolution of Shield Volcanoes and Volcanic Ocean Islands Climate and the Global Reach of the Galapagos Archipelago: State of the Knowledge Assessment of the Chile 2010 and Japan 2011 Tsunami Events in the Galapagos Islands Patterns in Galapagos Magmatism Arising from the Upper Mantle Dynamics of Plume-Ridge Interaction Variations in Crustal Thickness, Plate Rigidity, and Volcanic Processes throughout the Northern Galapagos Volcanic Province Plume-Ridge Interaction in the Galapagos: Perspectives from Wolf, Darwin, and Genovesa Islands A Preliminary Survey of the Northeast Seamounts, Galapagos Platform Effect of Variations in Magma Supply on the Crustal Structure of Mid-Ocean Ridges: Insights from the Western Galapagos Spreading Center Helium Isotope Variations and Mantle Plume-Spreading Ridge Interactions Along the Galapagos Spreading Center .
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Linking diagenesis to sequence stratigraphy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sadoon Morad, J. Marcelo Ketzer, Luis F. De Ros
Linking diagenesis to sequence stratigraphy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sadoon Morad, J. Marcelo Ketzer, Luis F. De Ros
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hoboken, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (532 p.)
Disciplina 551.7
552.03
552/.03
Altri autori (Persone) MoradSadoon
KetzerMarcelo
De RosLuiz Fernando
Collana International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
Special publication ... of the International Association of Sedimentologists
Soggetto topico Diagenesis
Reservoir sedimentation
Sequence stratigraphy
ISBN 1-118-48534-3
1-299-15846-3
1-118-48536-X
1-118-48537-8
Classificazione SCI019000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. S. MORAD, J.M. KETZER and L.F. DE ROS Linking diagenesis to sequence stratigraphy: an integrated tool for understanding and predicting reservoir quality distribution 2. ALESSANDRO AMOROSI The occurrence of glaucony in the stratigraphic record: distribution patterns and sequence-stratigraphic significance 3. GOVERT J.A. BUIJS and ROBERT H. GOLDSTEIN Sequence architecture and palaeoclimate controls on diagenesis related to subaerial exposure of icehouse cyclic Pennsylvanian and Permian carbonates 4. BRIAN P. COFFEY Sequence stratigraphic influence on regional diagenesis of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic passive margin, Eocene, N.C., USA 5. LUIZ FERNANDO DE ROS and CLAITON M. S. SCHERER Stratigraphic controls on the distribution of diagenetic processes, quality and heterogeneity of fluvial-aeolian reservoirs from the Recôncavo Basin, Brazil 6. A. SMEESTER, P MUCHEZ, R. SWENNEN and E. KEPPENS Diagenesis at exposure surfaces in a transgressive systems tract in a third order sequence (Lower Carboniferous, Belgium) 7. HARALD DILL Diagenetic and epigenetic mineralization in Central Europe related to surfaces and depositional systems of sequence stratigraphic relevance 8. PHILIP G. MACHENT, KEVIN G. TAYLOR, JOE H.S. MACQUAKER and JIM D. MARSHALL Distribution and petrography of concretionary carbonate in a falling-stage delta-front sandstone succession: Upper Cretaceous Panther Tongue Member, Book Cliffs, Utah 9. R. MARFIL, H. MANSURBEG, D. GARCIA, M.A. CAJA, E. REMACHA, S. MORAD, A. AMOROSI and J-P. NYSTUEN Dolomite-rich Condensed Sections in Overbank Deposits of Turbidite Channels: the Eocene Hecho Group, south-central Pyrenees, Spain 10. J.M. MCKINLEY, A.H. RUFFELL and R.H WORDEN An integrated stratigraphic, petrophysical, geochemical and geostatistical approach to the understanding of burial diagenesis: Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, South Yorkshire, UK 11. L. BRUCE RAILSBACK, KAREN M. LAYOU, NOEL A. HEIM, STEVEN M. HOLLAND, M.L. TROGDON, M.B. JARRETT, GABRIEL M. IZSAK, DANIEL E. BULGER, ERIC J. WYSONG, KENTON J. TRUBEE, J.M. FISER, JULIA E. COX and DOUGLAS E. CROWE Geochemical evidence for meteoric diagenesis and cryptic surfaces of subaerial exposure in Upper Ordovician peritidal carbonates from the Nashville Dome, central Tennessee, U.S.A. 12. KHALID AL-RAMADAN, SADOON MORAD and PIRET PLINK-BJÖRKLUND Distribution of Diagenetic Alterations in Relationship to Depositional Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy of Wave- and Tide-Dominated Siliciclastic Shoreline Complex: Upper Cretaceous Chimney Rock Sandstones, Wyoming and Utah, USA 13. KHALID AL-RAMADAN, SADOON MORAD, A. KENT NORTON and MICHAEL HULVER Linking Diagenesis and Porosity Preservation vs. Destruction to Sequence Stratigraphy of Gas Condensate Reservoir Sandstones, the Jauf Formation (Lower to Middle Devonian), Eastern Saudi Arabia 14. C. WALZ, G. CHI and P.K. PEDERSEN Petrographic, stable isotope and fluid inclusion characteristics of the Viking sandstones: implications for sequence stratigraphy, Bayhurst area, SW Saskatchewan, Canada 15. H. MANSURBEG, S. MORAD, P. PLINK-BJÖRKLUND, M.A.K. El-GHALI, M.A. CAJA and R. MARFIL Diagenetic alterations related to falling stage and lowstand systems tracts of shelf, slope and basin floor sandstones (Eocene Central Basin, Spitsbergen) 16. MATTHEW E. RITTER and ROBERT H. GOLDSTEIN A study of diagenetic controls on porosity preservation in lowstand oolitic and crinoidal carbonates, Mississippian, Kansas and Missouri, USA 17. A.E. CSOMA and R. H. GOLDSTEIN Diagenetic Salinity Cycles: A link between carbonate diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy 18. VINCENT CARON, CAMPBELL S. NELSON and PETER J. J. KAMP Linkages between tapho-diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy in cool-water limestones from a Pliocene forearc seaway, New Zealand 19. A.J. BARNETT, V. P. WRIGHT and S.F. CROWLEY Recognition and significance of paludal dolomites: Late Mississippian, Kentucky, USA Index.
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