Geology
epub |eng | | Author:Jacques Varet

To the east of this Gablaytu volcano, other small volcanic units are observed in the Saha plain. The main outcrop constitutes the Ayrobbada subaqueous basaltic lava field, which is surrounded ...
( Category: Geology June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:L. Stephen Lau

Table 6.4. Applicable Drinking Water Standards, Possible Health Effects, and Potential Sources of Groundwater Contamination Common Name Applicable Drinking Water Standardsa (in μg/l) Possible Noncarcinogenic Effects (Based on Ingestion Effects ...
( Category: Hydrology June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Yang, Xin-She

That is to say that the integral over any curve between two points is independent of the path (see Fig. 6.8), as we have demonstrated in the previous example. This ...
( Category: Geology June 28,2020 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bronislav Gongalsky & Nadezhda Krivolutskaya

( Category: Geology June 27,2020 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )