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Series: Palaeoecology of Africa
Palaeoecology of Africa, volume 31 presents two compressed English versions of the PhD thesis by J. Eisenberg and M. Sangen, produced in the framework of the German Research Foundation’s funded "Rain Forest Savanna Contact" project that has been carried out between 2004 and 2009 in...
To Be Published May 30th 2012 by CRC Press
This book comprises the proceedings of the international conference Shaking the Foundations of Geo-engineering Education (NUI Galway, Ireland, 4-6 July 2012), a major initiative of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee (TC306) on...
To Be Published June 13th 2012 by CRC Press
Digital soil assessments and beyond … contains papers presented at the 5th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 10-13 April 2012 in Sydney, Australia. The contributions demonstrate the latest developments in digital soil mapping as a discipline with a special focus on the use of map...
To Be Published July 11th 2012 by CRC Press
Series: Geomechanics Research Series
This is the first book ever published on the problems of true triaxial testing of rocks addressing all aspects of true triaxial testing of rocks, including: (i) true triaxial testing techniques and procedures; (ii) test results: strength, deformability, failure mode, permeability, acoustic emission...
To Be Published July 22nd 2012 by CRC Press
This practical guide to modeling methodology explains how to implement simulations and analyze simulation results using an open-source software platform. The book brings together principles of modeling methods with theoretical foundations of a variety of ecological and environmental models. Theory...
To Be Published August 20th 2012 by CRC Press
This book provides a detailed coverage of the landforms of Planet Earth and the processes that shaped them. The study of these morphologies, some of which formed during past geological periods under environmental conditions very different from those of today, makes it possible to reconstruct the...
To Be Published October 1st 2012 by CRC Press
This book presents a detailed study of the human impact, both bad and good, on the hydrology and hydrography (and, in turn, on human activity) of a large region of the United States. It begins with a reconstruction of the primeval natural landscape with emphasis on landforms, streams, soils, and...
To Be Published October 9th 2012 by CRC Press
Unique on the subject, this work deals typically with the engineering of shale and not with shale as a material itself. It addresses the engineering aspects and parameters related to chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties, and integrates them into engineering models that can be applied...
To Be Published November 30th 2012 by CRC Press
In the modelling or design phase of many mining or civil projects conducted in rock masses, the designer is confronted with a set of questions that is not always easy to answer. This is mainly due to the anisotropy and heterogeneity of the fractured medium, and to the complexity of the fractures’...
To Be Published December 31st 2012 by CRC Press
Series: Sustainable Energy Developments
The book first defines what a binary power plant is, its features and challenges, followed by an overview on the geographic distribution of the existing binary units in the World, tracing the history, the present installed capacity and sizes and the future growth scenarios for this...
To Be Published January 14th 2013 by CRC Press
