Coastal Environments and Global Change (Wiley Works)

The coastal zone is one of the most dynamic environments on our planet and is much affected by global change, especially sea-level rise. Coastal environments harbour valuable ecosystems, but they are also hugely important from a societal point of view. This book, which draws on the expertise of 21 leading international coastal scientists, represents an up-to-date account of coastal environments and past, present and future impacts of global change. The first chapter of the book outlines key principles that underpin coastal systems and their behaviour. This is followed by a discussion of key processes, including sea level change, sedimentation, storms, waves and tides, that drive coastal change. The main part of the book consists of a discussion of the main coastal environments (beaches, dunes, barriers, salt marshes, tidal flats, estuaries, coral reefs, deltas, rocky and glaciated coasts and coastal groundwater), and how these are affected by global change. The final chapter highlights strategies for coping with coastal change. Readership: final year undergraduate and postgraduate-level students on coastal courses in a wide range subjects, including geography, environmental management, geology, oceanography and coastal/civil engineering. The book will also be a valuable resource for researchers and applied scientists dealing with coastal environments. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/masselink/coastal

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

American Geophysical Union

Mankind is using a greater variety of metals in greater quantities than ever before. As a result there is increasing global concern over the long-term availability of secure and adequate supplies of the metals needed by society. Critical metals, which are those of growing economic importance that might be susceptible to future scarcity, are a particular worry. For many of these we have little information on how they are concentrated in the Earth’s crust, how to extract them from their ores, and how to use, recycle and dispose of them effectively and safely. Published with the British Geological Survey, the Critical Metals Handbook brings together a wealth of knowledge on critical metals and provides a foundation for improving the future security and sustainability of critical metal supplies. Written by international experts, it provides a unique source of authoritative information on diverse aspects of the critical metals, including geology, deposits, processing, applications, recycling, environmental issues and markets. It is aimed at a broad non-specialist audience, including professionals and academics working in the exploration and mining sectors, in mining finance and investment, and in mineral processing and manufacturing. It will also be a valuable reference for policy makers concerned with resource management, land-use planning, eco-efficiency, recycling and related fields.

Critical Metals Handbook

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Economics

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 13.  We have many reasons to believe that the history of the development of the earth's crust is fundamentally dependent on processes in the upper mantle to a depth not exceeding 1000 km. Because of this relation, the Upper Mantle Project was organized as an international program of geophysical, geochemical, and geological studies concerning the 'upper mantle and its influence on the development of the earth's crust.' Many important results have emerged during the course of the Upper Mantle Project. Probably the most significant is the delineation in some detail of the 'fine structure'—the lateral and vertical variations of properties—of the upper mantle. These results have fully convinced us that there is a fundamental relation between this fine structure, the motions of materials in the upper mantle, and activities at or near the surface of the earth such as earthquakes (and the types of earthquake motions), volcanism, the building and deformation of mountains, and the differentiation of various rock types, including concentrations that are of economic interest.

The Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle: Structure, DynaMic Processes, and Their Relation to Deep-Seated Geological Phenomena (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 15.This monograph contains 34 communications presented at the Third International Symposium on the Use of Artificial Satellites for Geodesy in 1971, and 4 invited papers on subjects that complement the others and provide continuity. All contributions represent the most recent findings in the theoretical and applied fields of satellite geodesy, including new instrumentation (satellite sensors and ground equipment) of potential use in satellite geodesy.The two preceding symposiums were held at Washington, D.C., in 1962 and at Athens, Greece, in 1965. The Proceedings of the first were published by North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, in 1963, and the Proceedings of the second by the National Technical University, Athens, in 1967. The prime mover behind both was George Veis, and his continuing dedication to this subject was in large measure responsible for scheduling this third symposium.

The Use of Artificial Satellites for Geodesy (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Astronomy & Space Science

Flow and Fracture of Rocks (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 18.I am advised that a preface, though not necessary, would at least be conventional. Since this provides the one opportunity for conventionality that the volume as a whole opens up, it would be churlish of me to decline. A preface normally includes, I am told, an indication of both the reason that underlies the volume's very existence and the individuals to whom the volume is directed. But part of the reason for the volume's existence lies, strange though it may seem, in communicating the reason for the volume's existence. Since prefaces generally go unread, I would be remiss if I attempted that communication here. Instead, I have left the attempt to the Introduction and Key, which I believe has a better chance of being read. Let us be willing to settle, for the moment, on the truly fundamental fact that the volume was prepared because I was prepared to prepare it and a publisher was prepared to publish it. As to the intended readers; they too, must wait for their identification in the Introduction and Key, unless they are willing to settle at this point on an identification as those who might be ready to read what I was prepared to prepare.

The Upper Atmosphere in Motion: A Selection of Papers With Annotation (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 19. The papers included in this volume were originally presented at the International Woollard Symposium held at the Kahala Hilton Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 8 through December 10, 1974. The symposium honored Professor George P. Woollard on the occasion of his 66th birthday. It was cosponsored by the University of Hawaii, where Professor Woollard is Director of the University of Hawaii's Institute of Geophysics, by the U.S. Geodynamics Committee, by the Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics of the International Council of Scientific Unions, and by the following Sponsoring and Organizing Committee: Philip H. Abelson; L. Thomas Aldrich; Orson L. Anderson; William E. Bonini; Edward C. Bullard; Ramon R. Cabre; S.J.R.M. Demenitskaya; Charles L. Drake; John I. Ewing; Maurice Ewing (Deceased); Richard A. Geyer; Alberto A. Giesecke; Wytze Gorter (Chancellor, University of Hawaii at Manoa); Anton L. Hales; John Brackett Hersey; Everett Dale Jackson; Gordon A. Macdonald; Henry W. Menard, Jr.; Robert P. Meyer; Julio Monges-Caldera; Jack E. Oliver; Frank Press; Russell W. Raitt; Donald A. Rice; George H. Sutton; Manik Talwani; G. B. Udintsev; Seiya Uyeda; Tjeerd H. van Andel; J. Tuzo Wilson; J. Lamar Worzel. The Organizing Committee set the theme and scope of the meeting: the symposium was to explore the edge of knowledge, in those fields of science that during the past decade have been the principal concern of Professor Woollard and his associates and students, of the Pacific Ocean basin and its margin. A Program Committee was charged with inviting papers from internationally known scientists, for the following sessions: Gravity and Geodesy Seismology Magnetism Marine Geology and Tectonics Volcanology and Petrology Tectonophysics.

The Geophysics of the Pacific Ocean Basin and Its Margin: A Volume in Honor of George P. Woollard (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 21.There is some confusion concerning what is meant by quantitative modeling. This is caused primarily by the existence of a wide variety of model users. Quantitative models may be purely empirical, that is based on data sets, semi-empirical, that is relying on physics whenever appropriate and available, but the "holes" being filled in with data as necessary, and finally purely physical models. It was apparent at the meeting that most current quantitative modeling efforts at this point in time are semi-empirical. This is partly because the physics of the magnetosphere is not yet entirely understood. At the same time, however, there is a large user community that needs models that can accurately describe magnetospheric features. The preponderance of semi-empirical models results because current data sets describing various magnetospheric features and processes are limited. There is some additional discussion of this topic in the section summaries. In particular, Cauffman in his introduction to the electric field section makes the useful distinction between "explanatory" and "representative" models. It is believed that all kinds of modeling will continue because of the various needs of the model user community.

Quantitative Modeling of Magnetospheric Processes (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 23. This volume is primarily an outgrowth of a major international program of cooperative research between earth scientists in the United States and their counterparts in Southeast Asia. Most of the research has been promoted and sponsored under the banner of Seatar, an acronym for ‘Studies of East Asian Tectonics and Resources.’ The program had its scientific inception at a workshop held in Bangkok in October 1973. Most of the U.S. Seatar research programs have been funded by the Office of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), but many closely related projects have been supported by other sections of the NSF, by the Office of Naval Research, and by others.

The Tectonic and Geologic Evolution of Southeast Asian Seas and Islands (Geophysical Monograph, No. 23)

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Coastal Environments and Global Change (Wiley Works)

Coastal Environments and Global Change (Wiley Works)

Critical Metals Handbook

The Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle: Structure, DynaMic Processes, and Their Relation to Deep-Seated Geological Phenomena (Geophysical Monograph Series)

The Use of Artificial Satellites for Geodesy (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Flow and Fracture of Rocks (Geophysical Monograph Series)

The Upper Atmosphere in Motion: A Selection of Papers With Annotation (Geophysical Monograph Series)

The Geophysics of the Pacific Ocean Basin and Its Margin: A Volume in Honor of George P. Woollard (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Quantitative Modeling of Magnetospheric Processes (Geophysical Monograph Series)

The Tectonic and Geologic Evolution of Southeast Asian Seas and Islands (Geophysical Monograph, No. 23)