Author: Geoffrey J. Matthews
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0802042031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A distillation of sixty-seven of the best and most important plates from the original three volumes of the bestselling of the Historical Atlas of Canada.
Author: Geoffrey J. Matthews
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0802034470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses maps to illustrate the development of Canada from the last ice sheet to the end of the eighteenth century
Author: Soumyajit Mukherjee
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0128168412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition of Atlas of Structural Geology features a broad and inclusive range of high-quality mesoscale and microscale full-color photographs, descriptions, and captions related to the deformation of rocks and geologic structures. It is a multicontributed, comprehensive reference that includes submissions from many of the world’s leading structural geologists, making it one of the most thorough and comprehensive references available to the geoscience community. All types of structures are featured, including those related to ductile and brittle shear zones, sigma and delta structures, mineral fish, duplexes and trapezoids, shear-related folds, and flanking structures in the mesoscale and microscale. This second edition features new and expanded coverage, including seismic-image interpretation, landslide deformations, flowing glacial structures, and more than 150 new full-color images to illustrate the geologic features. A stunning collection of the world’s most beautiful and arresting geologic structures, this book is the ideal resource to illustrate key concepts in geology. Presents more than 400 top-quality, full-color photographs contributed by the world’s most respected structural geologists Features a broad range of morphological variations of geologic structures, making it the most up-to-date and inclusive reference of its kind Aids researchers in developing mathematical and analogue models on the peculiarity and uniqueness of the world’s most iconic structures
Author: M. Parise
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2018-06-18
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1786203596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume covers major advances in the study of the geomorphology, hydrology, engineering geology and management of these specialized and fragile environments. The book will be valuable for geologists, engineers and geophysicists interested in karst, along with land planners, developers, and managers of show caves, natural parks and reserves in karst areas.
Author: Lawrence Johnstone Burpee
Publisher: T. Nelson
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Besides showing historical development, contains maps showing climate, vegetation, population and resources of Canada.
Author: J.A. Dowdeswell
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2016-12-16
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 1786202689
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New geophysical techniques (multibeam echo sounding and 3D seismics) have revolutionized high-resolution imaging of the modern seafloor and palaeo-shelf surfaces in Arctic and Antarctic waters, generating vast quantities of data and novel insights into sedimentary architecture and past environmental conditions. The Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms is a comprehensive and timely summary of the current state of knowledge of these high-latitude glacier-influenced systems. The Atlas presents over 180 contributions describing, illustrating and discussing the full variability of landforms found on the high-latitude glacier-influenced seafloor, from fjords and continental shelves to the continental slope, rise and deep-sea basins beyond. The distribution and geometry of these submarine landforms provide key information on past ice-sheet extent and the direction and nature of ice flow and dynamics. The papers discuss individual seafloor landforms, landform assemblages and entire landsystems from relatively mild to extreme glacimarine climatic settings and on timescales from the modern margins of tidewater glaciers, through Quaternary examples to ancient glaciations in the Late Ordovician.
Author: I.P. Martini
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2014-10-24
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 1862393745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We live in a world where the loss of sea ice and thawing of coastal grounds in the north, and renewed marine transgression and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events globally, are becoming commonplace. This volume presents a timely examination of coasts, the geological environment at particular risk, as global warming brings on this new reality. In 23 papers, low lying, mainly siliciclastic coasts are reviewed, described and analysed, under a variety of climates in quasi-stable tectonic settings along passive, trailing-continental edges from Polar Regions to the Tropics. Examples include coast of the Arctic seas, temperate to tropical eastern shores of the Americas, western Portugal, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, South Africa and Australia. The entire coastal zone (landscape) is considered ranging from geophysical processes and products to biological entities including the adaption of Native People in various climatic zones. Knowledge of the state of the coasts now, and how the coastal plain has evolved since Late Pleistocene, is crucial for any realistic planning for the future.
Author: Adrian Dorst
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2018-04-01
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0774890126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rugged physical beauty of the west coast of Vancouver Island has long been a major attraction, but its distinctive avian population has also made it a major birdwatching destination. The Birds of Vancouver Island’s West Coast presents accounts of all of the species thus far recorded as occurring in the region – 360 in total – and updates the 231 species recorded up to 1978. Each account includes a brief introduction to the species and an overview of its total range. The essential guide to the birds of the region, this book will inform, delight, and surprise amateur and professional birders alike.
Author: Jean-Pierre L. Savard
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1482248980
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