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By: Cindy Lee Van Dover
ISBN: 9780691049298
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The theory of plate tectonics predicted the existence of hydrothermal vents, but they were not discovered until 1977. Since then the sites have attracted teams of scientists seeking to understand how life can thrive in what would seem to be intolerable or extreme conditions of temperature and fluid chemistry. This is an account of this research.
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By: Patrick Nunn
ISBN: 9781399421058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dianne Dumanoski
ISBN: 9780307396099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Joseph O'Donoghue
ISBN: 9798350922189
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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Dive into the captivating world of The Geology of Greece, the second volume in The Legend of Atlantis and the Science of Geology series. Uncover the ancient catastrophe's impact on Greece and the Aegean Sea, challenging established academic theories with a thought-provoking exploration of geological evidence and the laws of physics.
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By: David Archer
ISBN: 9780691144146
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents an introduction to the global carbon cycle. This book tells about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. It looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each.
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By: Tapio Schneider
ISBN: 9780691242392
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Keith Parsons
ISBN: 9781576079225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A historical review of the most important scientific controversies that have shaped our knowledge of dinosaurs since their discovery in the 1820s. It explores the social, philosophical and ideological forces that contributed to the various disputes and presents narratives of dinosaur discoveries.
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By: Wallace Broecker
ISBN: 9780691143545
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What were the repercussions of past climate shifts How do we know such shifts occurred This book shows how Earth scientists study ancient ice cores and marine sediments to probe Earth's distant past, and how they blend scientific detective work with the technological advances to try to predict the future.
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By: Patricia Barnes-Svarney
ISBN: 9781578590636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
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A resource on ocean behaviour and myth.
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By: Peter Dodson
ISBN: 9780691628950
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Dodson
ISBN: 9780691605869
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Angus M. Gunn
ISBN: 9780313314445
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The hazards associated with geological processes are a continuing concern, but readers will also discover the benefits of many of these so-called natural disasters.
Geologic regions define the framework for the book.
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By: Joseph O'Donoghue
ISBN: 9798350910278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Judith Lang Zaimont
ISBN: 9780313235887
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume of The Musical Woman continues the long-neglected task of documenting the full scope of participation by women in every facet of the music world.
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By: Jeanette A. Battan
ISBN: 9780313225826
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1981
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The author attempts to describe various types of weather disturbances ranging from small white clouds of fair weather to violent hurricanes.
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By: Henry William Menard
ISBN: 9780691610320
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Menard begins with the leading hypotheses (such as that the earth expands) and the supporting evidence for each. He traces the crucial work of the 1960s year by year as researchers debated hypotheses in correspondence and at frequent meetings. Throughout the book Professor Menard considers the implications of his story for the sociology of science
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By: Henry William Menard
ISBN: 9780691638454
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Increased study of these Tropical Pacific phenomena, also known as ENSO (the El Nio and Southern Oscillation), has now enabled scientists to predict the ENSO state as much as 12 to 18 months in advance and has helped to shape weather prediction in general.
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By: Herbert Edgar Wright
ISBN: 9780691624426
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era--the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States. Over eighty Quaternary scientists have contributed to the fifty-five chapters divided into four main parts.
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By: Herbert Edgar Wright
ISBN: 9780691651026
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Joanna D. Haigh
ISBN: 9780691153834
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Rainer F. Buschmann
ISBN: 9781440843518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback, 2nd edition)
By: Rainer F. Buschmann
ISBN: 9781440881589
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: F. A. Dahlen
ISBN: 9780691001241
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents an advanced theoretical treatment of global seismology. This book provides a survey of both the history of global seismological research and the major theoretical and observational developments made over a decade. It is intended for graduate students and to professional seismologists, geodynamicists, and geomagnetists.
