In 1912 Victor Franz Hess made the revolutionary discovery that ionizing radiation is incident upon the Earth from outer space. He showed with ground- ...
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During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the ...
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In 1992, world leaders adopted Agenda 21, the work programme of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. This landmark event provided a ...
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Dynamic Earth clearly details the mechanisms responsible for plate tectonics, volcanic hotspots, and many resulting geological processes. Starting fro ...
In their search for solutions to problems concerning the dynamics of the Earth as a self-gravitating body, the authors have applied the fundamentals f ...
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The physical make up of our home planet is covered in great depth in this book. The preface gives a brief historical overview of human observation of ...
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