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Rocks, Gems, and Minerals by Garret Romaine
epub |eng | 2020-03-21 | Author:Garret Romaine

Chrysocolla Striking blue chrysocolla resembles turquoise. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE RICE NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ROCKS AND MINERALS (Cu,Al)2H2Si2O5(OH)4·nH2O Family: Silicate Mohs: 2½–3½ Specific gravity: 1.9–2.4 Key test(s): Soft Likely locale(s): ...
( Category: Fossils June 28,2020 )
Mountains in the Greenhouse by Donald McKenzie
epub |eng | | Author:Donald McKenzie

You can understand why these fine-scale subtleties matter for practical considerations like firefighting or protecting habitat for sensitive species. For firefighting, understanding how topography and wind interact during a fire ...
( Category: Geology June 28,2020 )
The First Cell by Ulrich C. Schreiber & Christian Mayer
epub |eng | | Author:Ulrich C. Schreiber & Christian Mayer

2. Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Raff M, Roberts K, Walter P (2002) Molecular biology of the cell. Garland Science, New York 3. Szostak JW (2012) The eightfold path ...
( Category: Cell Biology June 27,2020 )
World-Class Mineral Deposits of Northeastern Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia by Bronislav Gongalsky & Nadezhda Krivolutskaya
epub |eng | | Author:Bronislav Gongalsky & Nadezhda Krivolutskaya

( Category: Geology June 27,2020 )
Geology of the Nepal Himalaya by Megh Raj Dhital
epub |eng | | Author:Megh Raj Dhital

17.4 The Dhulikhel–Panchkhal Area The Lesser Himalayan sequence of the Dhulikhel–Panchkhal area (Fig. 17.5) is represented by the Benighat Slates. Light green-gray to yellow-gray phyllites and slates, feeble and laminated ...
( Category: Geology June 19,2020 )
Piltdown Forgery by Weiner J. S.; Stringer Chris;
epub |eng | 2008-06-14 | Author:Weiner, J. S.; Stringer, Chris;

11 Entanglement Remove you skull from out the scattered heaps: Is that a Temple where a God may dwell? Why ev’n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell! Look ...
( Category: Fossils June 17,2020 )
Finding the Voice of the River by Gary J. Brierley
epub |eng | | Author:Gary J. Brierley

Box 3.6 Enhancing the Self-Healing Capacity of River Systems by Working with Recovery and Applying Space to Move Programmes Working with recovery presents an important basis to enhance river health ...
( Category: Geology June 3,2020 )
Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Rocky Mountains by Garret Romaine
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Garret Romaine

Fulgurite This fulgurite from Boulder County, Colorado, formed when lightning fused quartz-rich sands. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE IMAGE ARCHIVES, DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE Quartz, SiO2 Family: Quartz Mohs: ...
( Category: Geology May 9,2020 )
Petroleum Geoscience by Knut Bjørlykke
epub |eng | | Author:Knut Bjørlykke

11.6 Summary In subsiding sedimentary basins, mechanical compaction caused by the increase of effective vertical stresses is the dominating compaction process and has the greatest influence on the sediment’s porosity ...
( Category: Sedimentary April 24,2020 )
Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange by Octave Levenspiel
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Octave Levenspiel

(8.4) For the special case of viscous flow of a sphere, occurring when Re t < 1, Stokes developed the following theoretical expression for the drag force: (8.5) Replacing in ...
( Category: Thermodynamics April 24,2020 )
The Sea Floor by Eugen Seibold & Wolfgang Berger
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Eugen Seibold & Wolfgang Berger

Today, we prefer the more general term carbonate ooze over “Globigerina ooze” considering that much of the plankton-derived material over most of the seafloor consists not of shells of foraminifers ...
( Category: Sedimentary April 24,2020 )
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice by Gillen D’arcy Wood
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Gillen D’arcy Wood [Wood, Gillen D’arcy]

Interlude: The Antarctic Convergence Jim Kennett, a central figure in the early history of paleoceanography, was the same age as Joseph Hooker when he first saw Antarctica. And, like Hooker, ...
( Category: Geology April 18,2020 )
Sediment Compaction and Applications in Petroleum Geoscience by Troyee Dasgupta & Soumyajit Mukherjee
epub |eng | | Author:Troyee Dasgupta & Soumyajit Mukherjee

The common pressure generating mechanism seen in the U.S Gulf Coast wells is due to compaction disequilibrium but the log signatures in some wells of the Gulf of Mexico depicted ...
( Category: Sedimentary April 16,2020 )
Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia by Rosemarie Klemm & Dietrich Klemm
epub |eng | | Author:Rosemarie Klemm & Dietrich Klemm

A diagonally running retention wall crossing the N-S oriented wadi is just barely made out in the stereoscopic aerial image, though hardly in the field. The wall served to collect ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 16,2020 )
Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms by Patricia M. Glibert Elisa Berdalet Michele A. Burford Grant C. Pitcher & Mingjiang Zhou
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia M. Glibert, Elisa Berdalet, Michele A. Burford, Grant C. Pitcher & Mingjiang Zhou

Acknowledgments This is a contribution of the GEOHAB Core Research Project on HABs in Upwelling Systems. References Álvarez-Salgado XA, Figueiras FG, Fernández-Reiriz MJ et al (2011) Control of lipophilic shellfish ...
( Category: Marine Biology April 13,2020 )

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