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1) Cool caves
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DK Publishing
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[2023]
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Caves - dark, echoing chambers waiting to be explored! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the coolest caves all over the world - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Cool Caves is a beautifully designed reader all about caves - the biggest, the most beautiful and even one that plays melodies! The engaging text has been...
2) Sparkly gems
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DK
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[2023]
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Find out about the sparkly gems in a beautiful crown. Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about beautiful gems, how they are made and used - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Sparkly Gems is a beautifully designed reader all about gems, and how some are naturally beautiful and others are grown in labs - but they all make...
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The "Encyclopedia of Scientific and Technic.al Terms", the first of its kind in India, aims at being of service to Science, Engineering and Biological students. This set includes 14 volumes and covers commonly encountered terms in Science, Biology, Mathematics, Computer, Earth sciences and Engineering Sciences. An effort has been made- to bring together in the various volumes not only commonly used terms but also the more specialised and less frequently...
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"One of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year for 2004" "One of Discover Magazine's Top Science Books of the Year for 2004" Simon Lamb is Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University and a Fellow of St. Cross College. He is coauthor of Earth Story: The Forces That Have Shaped Our Planet, recently revised in paperback by Princeton University Press.
How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth?...
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A medio camino entre la escala del Universo y la de las partículas atómicas, la estructura y composición de la Tierra responde a reacciones entre los elementos químicos, que dan origen a los más variados compuestos. Dentro de la geósfera los procesos han ocurrido bajo condiciones de presión y temperatura extremas, que han asociado los elementos por su afinidad geoquímica y, como consecuencia, los han separado en capas concéntricas (núcleo,...
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Esta obra presenta una síntesis actualizada y ampliamente ilustrada del estado de conocimiento geológico de nuestro país. Cada uno de los artículos estuvo a cargo de diferentes investigadores, todos ellos profesores de la Escuela Centroamericana de Geología de la Universidad de Costa Rica, por lo que su contenido tiene enfoques muy variados y abarca todas las diferentes ramas de la Geología. Este libro no está dirigido solamente a los estudiantes...
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Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling attention to some of downstate New York's most spectacular and historic rocks: balanced rocks, perched rocks, rock shelters, talus caves, glacial potholes, split rocks, rock profiles, historic rocks, and massive, larger-than-life boulders.
Many large glacial erratics have a history going back thousands of years to when they were moved to their present location by...
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Agriculture is primarily the uppermost important sector in Sudan, contributing significantly to the country's national economy. However, in spite of the country's vast cultivated area, productivity remains very low. The declining agricultural production is indicative of the need for adopting sustainable agricultural development approaches to the achieve country's food security. The attainment of sustainable agricultural production will require the...
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Geology by Frank H. T. Rhodes, an informative Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press, covers the five billion years of history that have given the earth its present form, including:
The earth's relation to the rest of the universe
The rocks and minerals of which it is made
The effects of glaciers, gravity, volcanoes, and other forces
Illustrated in full color, this guide is valuable for everyone interested in our planet, the ultimate basis of our...
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En esta obra de divulgación científica converge la ciencia y el arte en la interpretación paleoambiental del miembro superior calcáreo de la Formación Tibasosa. El texto se complementa con ilustraciones científicas sobre conceptos básicos de geología y paleontología que apoyan la comprensión de los análisis bioestratigráficos, los procesos tectosedimentarios y los análisis taxonómicos de la paleofauna marina. Se aplican técnicas de...
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El desarrollo de un libro sobre el carbón, y su utilización es una tarea compleja, pues implica abordarlo como un producto de la naturaleza que posee características variables, diversas propiedades y multiples usos, el cual ha sido objeto de gran cantidad de estudios e investigaciones. Así, el hecho de que sea un combustible fósil lleva a recapitular las condiciones ambientales y geológicas que lo formaron en el remoto pasado, de manera tal...
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La presente obra aborda uno de los procesos más intrigantes de la geología: el metamorfismo; el cual ha sido ampliamente difundido a través de la historia geológica de la Tierra y gran actor en su constitución. Testimonio de esto es el hecho de que las rocas metamórficas constituyen el 27,4 % del volumen de la corteza.
El papel protagónico del metamorfismo en la estructura de la Tierra se manifiesta igualmente en su capacidad para formar y...
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Son muy pocas las experiencias de estudios orientados a la evaluación integral del riesgo frente a amenazas naturales. Hasta el momento no existe una técnica que permita predecir con exactitud la ocurrencia de una erupción volcánica. Algunos de los fenómenos que presentan los volcanes tales como la actividad sísmica, la deformación del suelo, las emanaciones de gas o la actividad fumarólica, así como la composición química del agua y sus...
15) Los fragmentos de roca. Origen e influencia en la infiltración y propiedades hidráulicas de los s
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Este libro tiene por objetivo mostrarle al lector aspectos básicos sobre los fragmentos de roca en el suelo y denotar cómo estos afectan la infiltración y las propiedades hidráulicas de los suelos. Los suelos con fragmentos de roca (fr) están estrechamente ligados a la génesis de las geoformas, de los cuales hacen parte. Los fr ejercen una compleja influencia sobre los procesos hidrológicos del suelo (infiltración, evapotranspiración, generación...
16) Tectonic Geology
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Principles of Tectonics, Plate Margins and causes for plate movements and mid-oceanic ridges are included. Evolution of the Himalaya and northward drift of India are some important aspects. The tectonic architecture, various structural zones and models of metamorphism are described. The Himalaya is seismically active and is prone to Earthquakes. Minor structures, major structures, petrotectonics and structural petrology are significant aspect of this...
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Get the Summary of Simon Winchester & Soun Vannithone's The Map That Changed the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Map That Changed the World" chronicles the life and work of William Smith, an English geologist who created the first detailed geological map of England. Born in 1769 in Churchill, Oxfordshire, Smith grew up during a time of significant scientific and industrial change. Despite his modest...
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The book is devoted to the technical terminology of Structural and Tectonic Geology. The book elucidates the definitions of the fundamental terms with suitable illustrations citing Indian examples wherever possible. It is, hoped that the book would be useful to the students and teachers of Geology at various levels.
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This scholarly introductory treatment explores the fundamentals of modern geostatistics, viewing them as the product of the advancement of the epistemic status of stochastic data analysis. The book's main focus is the Bayesian maximum entropy approach for studying spatiotemporal distributions of natural variables, an approach that offers readers a deeper understanding of the role of geostatistics in improved mathematical models of scientific mapping....
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Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn't exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas' shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north...
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