地质学

The interior of our planet is one of the last ‘terra incognita’. Its chemical composition and onion-like structure of solid rocks and rare minerals make it a fascinating object. It is primarily its d …

Soils are a vital resource in agricultural production. This book aims to provide an overview of several topics concerning agricultural soil management. Without claiming to be exhaustive, it neverthel …

The silicate mantle and its dynamics have controlled the Earth’s internal cooling for over four billion years. Today, these dynamics are rather slow, but this was not always the case: shortly after t …

The Heart Mountain Detachment Fault (HMDF) is an immense geologic structure in northwest Wyoming that, as defined prior to this study, extends from just inside the northeast entrance of Yellowstone N …

Guiding the reader on five popular driving tours and five key hiking trails, this nontechnical guidebook indicates not-to-be-missed points of interest and describes the geological evolution associate …

Tennessee’s geologic history has evolved in myriad ways since its initial formation more than a billion years ago, settling into its current place on the North American supercontinent between 300 and …

How fossilized reefs hold clues to the survival of corals in the Anthropocene With rising global temperatures, pollution, overfishing, ocean acidification, and other problems caused by humans, there’ …

Explores the effects of wildfires on land, water, vegetation, wildlife, and humans Across the world, wildfires are increasing in frequency, extent, and severity, driven by changes in land use and cli …

Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics Borehole geophysics involves measuring, imaging, and monitoring subsurface structures and activities by putting instruments into wellbores. Distrib …