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Published:
July 12, 2011
Author(s):
Y. Anjaneyulu; Valli Manickam
This Second Edition of Environmental Impact Assessment Methodologies covers basic concepts and important methodologies. It details the prediction and assessment of impacts on soil and groundwater management, surface water management, biological environment, air environment, the impact of noise 
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Published:
June 23, 2011
Editor(s):
Jürgen Runge; James Shikwati
This book looks at the distribution, occurrences, potential and prospects for good governance, transparency and sustainable development of geological resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. By bringing together numerous different point of views, it is carried out in a holistic, interdisciplinary and 
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Published:
January 12, 2011
Author(s):
Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo; Mercedes Ferrer
A thorough knowledge of geology is essential in the design and construction of infrastructures for transport, buildings and mining operations; while an understanding of geology is also crucial for those working in urban, territorial and environmental planning and in the prevention and mitigation of 
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November 01, 2010
Editor(s):
Jürgen Runge
This 30st jubilee volume (2010) of "Palaeoecology of Africa" looks back and reflects the "state of the art" of what is actually known on former African climates and ecosystems in the format of review articles authored by specialists in the field. New research articles on climate and ecosystem 
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Published:
October 01, 2010
Editor(s):
Peter Birkle; Ignacio Salvador Torres Alvarado
In the late 18th century, Neptunists and Plutonists had controversial opinions about the formation of the Earth and its lithological units. The former believed that rocks formed from the crystallization of minerals in the early Earth’s oceans, the latter believed that rocks were formed in fire. 
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Published:
September 28, 2010
Author(s):
Felix P. Lesnov
This book gives an overview of the world’s literature on analytical data and theoretical concepts of the regularities of rare earth elements (REE) in ultramafic and mafic rocks of different chemical and mineral compositions – mantle restites (including those composing mantle xenoliths in 
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Published:
August 06, 2010
Author(s):
Chun'An Tang; John A. Hudson
When dealing with rock in civil engineering, mining engineering and other engineering, the process by which the rock fails under load should be understood, so that safe structures can be built on and in the rock. However, there are many ways for loading rock and rock can have a variety of 
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Published:
August 03, 2010
Editor(s):
A.L. Williams; G.M. Pinches; C.Y. Chin; T.J. McMorran; C.I. Massey
Geologically Active contains over 500 papers from 44 countries worldwide, which were presented at the 11th Congress of the IAEG, and includes the state-of-the-art on practise in engineering geology. Engineering geology now extends into a host of linked fields: disaster risk management and climate 
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April 14, 2010
Editor(s):
S. K. Jain; A. A. Khan; M. K. Rai
Geomicrobiology is a combination of geology and microbiology, and includes the study of interaction of microorganisms with their environment, such as in sedimentary rocks. This is a new and rapidly-developing field that has led in the past decade to a radically-revised view of the diversity and 
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Published:
December 16, 2009
Editor(s):
Petri Pellikka; W. Gareth Rees
Glaciers and ice sheets have been melting significantly during recent decades, posing environmental threats at local, regional and global scales. Changes in glaciers are one of the clearest indicators of alterations in regional climate, since they are governed by changes in accumulation (from 
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