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Comment la Terre s’est-elle constituée ? À quoi ressemblait-elle durant les premiers 540 millions d’années de son existence ? La vie y a-t-elle existé ? Ce sont les questions auxquelles cet ouvrage tente de répondre, en faisant appel aux découvertes et aux travaux les plus récents. Il est difficile de remonter le temps aussi loin, au delà de 4 milliards d'années, mais des informations sûres sont disponibles. Parmi les thèmes abordés, figurent la naissance de la Lune, le commencem...

Date de sortie: 2016-12-17 2,99 €

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1. Excellent ouvrage! Vivement la suite! - Très bon ouvrage sur l'origine de notre terre. Très rigoureux, parfois s'adressant à des bons connaisseurs en physique-chimie, c'est un ouvrage qui nous donne les clés pour comprendre la géologie de notre monde et son histoire. Premier tome annoncé d'une série... j'attend vivement la suite!
2018-08-06

L'Europe centrale et occidentale contraste avec la plupart des autres masses continentales par le compartimentage de son relief et du tracé de son littoral, compartimentage qui traduit celui de sa structure géologique et explique sans doute certains aspects de son développement historique...

Date de sortie: 2016-09-19 4,49 €

Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they const...

Date de sortie: 2012-09-06 9,49 €

Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists...

Date de sortie: 2012-04-26 10,99 €

In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth. Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quar...

Date de sortie: 2015-10-27 8,49 €

Depuis le début du siècle, les tremblements de terre ont fait près de 700 000 victimes. Sumatra en 2004, Chine en 2008, Italie en 2009, Haïti en 2010, Japon en 2011, Népal en 2015... Nous avons tous en tête des images de désolation après le passage d'un séisme ou d'un tsunami. Quelle est leur mécanique secrète ? Saura-t-on un jour les prévoir ? Comment agir et contrer leurs effets dévastateurs ? La science des séismes a fait des progrès considérables au cours des quinze dernière...

Date de sortie: 2017-05-26 14,99 €

L'usage fait de l'Europe un continent ; en réalité, celle-ci constitue une partie de l'Eurasie, avec laquelle elle est en continuité de l'Ancien Monde – puisque l'Afrique n'est pas complètement séparée de l'Eurasie –, et nombre de ses affinités sont avec le Nouveau Monde, par-delà l'Atlantique. ...

Date de sortie: 2016-09-19 3,99 €

Le mot glacier réunit deux ensembles de nature différente mais qui sont indissociables. Il désigne, d'une part, une masse de glace d'un seul tenant, avec le névé et la neige qui la recouvrent en partie, et, d'autre part, les moraines mouvantes qu'il transporte. La définition ne prend pas la ...

Date de sortie: 2016-09-19 3,99 €

Décembre 2004, tsunami de Sumatra, janvier 2010, séisme d’Haïti, mars 2011, séisme de Tohoku et tsunami de Fukushima... Autant de drames humains qui nous rappellent en permanence combien la prévision des séismes et des tsunamis reste une science complexe et difficile. Cet ouvrage, simple et concis, est une introduction aux grandes notions élémentaires des séismes et un état des lieux de la prédiction. Qu’est-ce qu’un séisme ? Comment se forme un tsunami ou une vague scélérate...

Date de sortie: 2012-12-09 12,99 €

The important controversy over hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production is covered in detail in this ebook, with a collection of up-to-date official documents and publications on the risks and rewards of shale gas. New material includes the work of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Natural Gas Subcommittee striving to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracturing; EPA plans to study the potential impact of fracturing on drinking water resources; USGS material on Marcel...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-04 9,49 €

Turquoise has been mined on six continents and traded by cultures throughout the world's history, including the Europeans, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec, Inca, and Southwest Native Americans. It has been set in silver and gold jewelry, cut and shaped into fetish animals, and even formed to represent gods in many religions. This gemstone is displayed in museums around the world, representing the arts and traditions of prehistoric, historic, and modern societies. Turquoise focuses on the latest informatio...

Date de sortie: 2010-10-01 13,99 €

This edition does not include illustrations. The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London’s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality – they seem to elide with dark fantasies o...

Date de sortie: 2009-08-06 Genre:Science et nature 10,99 €

“Come un artista precoce, il nostro pianeta ha reinventato se stesso più e più volte, provando in ogni fase qualcosa di nuovo.” Dal primo atomo ai minerali, dal magma al verdeggiante paesaggio vivente, il nostro pianeta si trasforma senza sosta. Con l’immaginazione di un astrobiologo, la prospettiva di uno storico e la passione per i dettagli di un naturalista, Hazen racconta il profondo intreccio che unisce le vicende della geosfera e della biosfera – delle rocce e della materia viven...

Date de sortie: 2021-11-07 8,99 €

Sempre intenti a «riveder le stelle», per citare il Sommo Poeta, ma ci siamo mai interessati veramente a quanto accade invece sotto i nostri piedi? La risposta è sì, ovviamente, ed è proprio quello che fanno i geologi: studiano la Terra! Eppure, in chi non la conosce, la geologia è una scienza che evoca spesso, e ingiustamente, un sapore stantio. Un luogo comune che il nostro geologo preferito, Andrea Moccia, autore del progetto divulgativo «Geopop», si è proposto di sfatare in questo l...

Date de sortie: 2021-01-28 9,99 €

'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir. And also a beautifully realised and moving read.' Financial Times 'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and memoir that captivated me from the first page.' Lara Maiklem, author of Mudlarking 'Tom Chivers brings a poet's sensibility to this book about the hidden parts of the capital, mixing the past with the present, the known with the unknown and his personal story with social history and geology.' Bernardine ...

Date de sortie: 2021-09-09 9,49 €

A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences contains more than 10,000 entries covering all areas of geoscience, including planetary science, oceanography, palaeontology, mineralogy, and volcanology. In this edition, 675 new entries have been added, along with three new appendices, and web links have been fully revised and updated.

Date de sortie: 2020-01-09 20,99 €

With this awe-inspiring account of earth’s evolution, “you’ll discover why Tim Flannery’s books have made him the rock star of modern science” (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of  Guns, Germs, and Steel ).   Beginning at the Big Bang,  Here on Earth  explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs of life within a billion years of being created.   In a compelling narrative, in...

Date de sortie: 2011-04-10 12,99 €

À la surface de la Terre, les zones de relief élevé qui forment ce que l'on appelle des «chaînes de montagnes» constituent un trait morphologique de première importance, comparable à celui des dorsales qui sillonnent le fond des océans. Les chaînes de montagnes correspondent donc à un marqueur ...

Date de sortie: 2016-09-19 3,99 €

L’intérieur de notre planète a toujours été une source de fascination ou d’effroi. Ceci d’autant plus que l’observation directe ne permet d’accéder qu’à moins de 1/500 de son rayon ! Notre connaissance de l’intérieur de la Terre provient donc soit de mesures géophysiques effectuées lors des séismes, soit d’expériences de cristallisation de minéraux sous des pressions et températures contrôlées, soit encore de l’observation de certaines météorites, censées repr...

Date de sortie: 2013-05-20 3,99 €

Cette nouvelle version du fameux Petit lexique de pédologie définit désormais plus de 1200 termes spécifiques et donne leur équivalent en anglais. L'auteur développe ici sa conception d'une pédologie moderne mais l'ouvrage n'a pas la neutralité des dictionnaires habituels. N’ont été retenus que les mots vraiment utiles du vocabulaire pédologique francophone ainsi que de nombreux termes relatifs à la contamination des sols.

Date de sortie: 2016-06-02 23,99 €

L'Amérique – ou, pour être plus précis, les Amériques – est constituée de trois ensembles présentant des différences marquées, tant dans leurs structures, héritées du passé géologique, que dans leurs géodynamiques actuelles : l'Amérique du Nord et l'Amérique du Sud sont clairement individualisées comme continents ; l'Amérique centrale et le domaine...

Date de sortie: 2015-10-28 3,99 €

ON THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS AND OCEANS is a completely new way of looking at and understanding modern scientific evidence about the origin of Earth's continents and oceans. Since the 1960s this evidence has traditionally been gathered in support of Plate Tectonic studies and as such, until now, has rarely been looked at other than from a conventional Plate Tectonic perspective. This conventional perspective insists that the origin of the continents and oceans is a random, non-predictable, and so...

Date de sortie: 2015-01-01 18,99 €

ON THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS AND OCEANS is a completely new way of looking at and understanding modern scientific evidence about the origin of Earth's continents and oceans. Since the 1960s this evidence has traditionally been gathered in support of Plate Tectonic studies and as such, until now, has rarely been looked at other than from a conventional Plate Tectonic perspective. This conventional perspective insists that the origin of the continents and oceans is a random, non-predictable, and so...

Date de sortie: 2015-01-01 18,99 €

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to multiple-point geostatistics, where spatial continuity is described using training images. Multiple-point geostatistics aims at bridging the gap between physical modelling/realism and spatio-temporal stochastic modelling. The book provides an overview of this new field in three parts. Part I presents a conceptual comparison between traditional random function theory and stochastic modelling based on training images, where random function theory ...

Date de sortie: 2014-10-16 99,99 €

Ce guide pratique passe en revue toutes les étapes de la description des sols depuis le choix des emplacements à observer et du matériel à utiliser jusqu'au stockage, au traitement et à la transmission des informations recueillies sur le terrain. Choisir les sites à étudier, préparer la prospection et la notation, décrire l'environnement naturel et humain sont les points envisagés dans une première partie. La description des solums, horizon par horizon, forme le corps de l'ouvrage. Po...

Date de sortie: 2011-12-15 25,99 €

When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution.  Since the 1980s the discovery and study of asteroid impact ejecta in the oldest well-preserved terrains of Western Australia and South Africa, by Don Lowe, Gary Byerly, Bruce Simonson, the author and others, and the document...

Date de sortie: 2013-03-25 42,99 €

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physica...

Date de sortie: 2013-02-05 8,49 €

This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips. The authors channeled their classroom and field experience into this volume, which features many new sections such as: * Heat recovery units * Kinetic inhibitors and anti-agglomerators * Trays and packing for distillation and absorption towers * Compressor valves * Foundation design considerations for reciprocating compressors * Pressure vessel issues and components * Nox reductio...

Date de sortie: 1999-08-12 184,99 €

The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision: 250 million years from now, all the land masses on this planet will come together in a single, gigantic supercontinent which no human is ever likely to see. That future supercontinent will not be the first to form on Earth, nor will it be the last. Each cycle lasts half a billion years, making it the grandest of all the patterns in nature. It is scarcely a century since science first understood how Pangaea, the superconti...

Date de sortie: 2012-02-09 7,99 €

Part of The Geological Field Guide Series , Basic Geological Mapping , 5th Edition is an essential basic guide to field techniques in mapping geology. Now completely revised and updated the book retains the concise clarity which has made it an indispensable instant reference in its previous editions. It provides the reader with all the necessary practical information and techniques that they will need while carrying out work in the field, covering a wide spectrum of different conditions, needs a...

Date de sortie: 2011-09-07 30,99 €

The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that ar...

Date de sortie: 1982-04-01 8,99 €

From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origins of the mountain range; and, in contrast, a century-old collision of ideas about the existence of th...

Date de sortie: 2011-04-01 10,99 €

Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains . This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in th...

Date de sortie: 2011-04-01 10,99 €

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults...

Date de sortie: 2010-04-01 10,99 €

This ebook edition does not include illustrations. A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain’s most dazzling science writers. What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival of man? Most of us have a dim impression of a swirling mass of dust solidifying to form a volcanic globe, briefly populated by dinosaurs, then by woolly mammoths and finally by our own hairy ancestors. T...

Date de sortie: 2010-10-07 Genre:Science et nature 8,99 €