Soils And Quaternary Geology Of The Southwestern United States

Author : David L. Weide
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813722039
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Southwestern United States written by David L. Weide and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1985 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony J. Parsons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402057199
Total Pages : 824 pages
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Download or read book Geomorphology of Desert Environments written by Anthony J. Parsons and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one-third of the Earth’s land surface experiences a desert climate, and this area supports approximately 15% of the planet’s population. This percentage continues to grow, and with this growth comes the need to acquire and apply an understanding of desert geomorphology. Such an understanding is vital in managing scarce and fragile resources and in mitigating natural hazards. This authoritative reference book is comprehensive in its coverage of the geomorphology of desert environments, and is arranged thematically. It begins with an overview of global deserts, proceeds through treatments of weathering, hillslopes, rivers, piedmonts, lake basins, and aeolian surfaces, and concludes with a discussion of the role of climatic change. Written by a team of international authors, all of whom are active in the field, the chapters cover the spectrum of desert geomorphology.

Author : Franck A. Audemard M.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813724799
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geological Criteria for Evaluating Seismicity Revisited written by Franck A. Audemard M. and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. A. Catt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soils and Quaternary Geology written by J. A. Catt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Quaternary period, the geological epoch covering the last 1.8 million years, major climatic fluctuations and widespread glaciation had a marked impact on soil characteristics and distribution patterns in the northern hemisphere. This handbook summarizes the evidence for climatic change derived from deposits of land areas and from deep ocean sediments. The author considers soil patterns in eastern England, the midwestern United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France, examines the main Quaternary processes influencing soil patterns, and outlines their effects at various scales.

Author : Douglas Helms
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470376732
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey written by Douglas Helms and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey offers a broad-ranging collection of essays chronicling the development of the U.S. Soil Survey and its influence on the history of soil survey as a scientific discipline that focuses on mapping, analysis, and description of soils. Appraises the influences of key individuals and institutions on the establishment of federal support for and coordination of U.S. soil surveys. Provides an account of life in the field, detailing experience shared by many soil scientists and survey processionals. Reviews the opening of careers in soil survey to women and African-Americans. Relates aspects of the utility of the soil survey to other federal services, to other fields of research, and to land-use planning. Discusses the future of the U.S. Soil Survey and the new directions both the survey and its uses will take. Soil scientists and other soil survey professionals will find this collection valuable both for the new research it provides and for the memories it preserves of life and work in the field and laboratory. Historians will increasingly turn their attention to this crucial earth science as the intriguing connections between soils, the environment, and human history become more apparent. Teachers, students, and agriculturalists will also appreciate this detailed account of the Soil Survey.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Juergen Reinhardt
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813722160
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Paleosols and weathering through geologic time written by Juergen Reinhardt and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1988 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book Mojave Desert written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mitchel P. McClaran
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816553203
Total Pages : 359 pages
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Download or read book The Desert Grassland written by Mitchel P. McClaran and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mixed grass and shrub vegetation known to scientists as desert grassland is common to the basins and valleys that skirt the mountain ranges throughout southwestern North America, extending from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas down through thirteen Mexican states. This variegated ground cover is crucial to life in an arid environment. The Desert Grassland offers the most comprehensive study to date of these flora and the rich biotic communities they support. Leading experts in geography, biology, botany, zoology, and geoscience present new research on the desert grassland and review a vast amount of earlier work. They reveal that present-day grasses once grew in the ice-age forests that existed in these areas before the climate dried and the trees vanished and how the intensity and frequency of fire can influence the plant and animal species of the grassland. They also document how the influence of humans—from Amerindians to contemporary ranchers, public land managers, and real estate developers—has changed the relative abundance of woody and herbaceous species and how the introduction of new plants and domesticated animals to the area has also affected biodiversity. The book concludes with a review of the attempts, both failed and successful, to reestablish plants in desert grasslands affected by overgrazing, drought, and farm abandonment. Meticulously researched and copiously illustrated, The Desert Grassland is a major contribution to ecological literature. For advanced lay readers as well as students and scholars of history, geography, and ecology, it will be a standard reference work for years to come.

Author : Pan Ming Huang
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439803048
Total Pages : 2272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Soil Sciences (Two Volume Set) written by Pan Ming Huang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 2272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below. It acts as an anchor for roots, a purveyor of water and nutrients, a residence for a vast community of microorganisms and animals, a sanitizer of the environment, and a source of raw materials for co