Рассмотрен процесс автоматизации прогнозирования горногеологических условий при проектирований эффективных геоинформационных систем управления горным предприятием в условиях неполноты и недостаточной достоверности геологической и геотехнической...
Дан краткий анализ первого этапа проводимой реструктуризации отечественной угольной промышленности. Рассмотрен накопленный в этой области опыт зарубежных стран. Изложены концептуальные положения реструктуризации производственного потенциала и...
Рассмотрены общие вопросы проектирования открытых горных работ и особенности проектирования гидромеханизированных горных и строительных работ с учетом достижений науки и техники и опыта передовых предприятий. Приведены методы оконтуривания и...
Приведены справочные материалы по физико-механическим свойствам разрабатываемых горных пород, машинам и оборудованию гидромеханизации, применяемым в гидротехническом, транспортном и мелиоративном строительстве, при намыве территорий, на открытых...
Изложены данные о строительных горных породах, разрабатываемых и перерабатываемых средствами гидромеханизации. Рассмотрены основные гидравлические перерабатывающие аппараты и даны их характеристики. Приведены технические схемы переработки горной...
Рассмотрены основные производственные процессы с использованием экскавационных машин и средств гидромеханизации открытых горных работ при строительстве промышленных, гражданских и гидротехнических объектов. Большое внимание уделено вопросам...
Приведены примеры решения задач по основным производственным процессам, технологии и проектированию отдельных технологических комплексов открытой разработки месторождений полезных ископаемых. Дан пример экономической оценки проектного решения....
Get a rock-solid grasp on geology Geology is the study of the earth's history as well as the physical and chemical processes that continue to shape the earth today. Jobs in the geosciences are expected to increase over the next decade, which...
Развивается теория космического происхождения воды, основной источник которой после образования Солнечной планетарной системы, локализуясь изначально в протопланетном веществе, составляет неотъемлемую часть материальной системы планет, в том...
Приведены результаты новейших исследований региональной гидрогеологии Беларуси и смежных территорий северо-запада Восточно-Европейской платформы. Подчеркнута определяющая роль четвертичных оледенений в становлении современной гидрогеологии...
This book addresses the latest issues in multiscale geomechanics. Written by leading experts in the field as a tribute to Jean Biarez (1927-2006), it can be of great use and interest to researchers and engineers alike. A brief introduction...
Humanity’s ever-increasing hunger for mineral raw materials, caused by a growing global population and ever increasing standards of living, has resulted in economic geology becoming a subject of urgent importance. This book provides a broad...
An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, 2nd Edition, describes the rapidly developing field of near-surface geophysics. The book covers a range of applications including mineral, hydrocarbon and groundwater exploration, and...
Erosion is the most common cause of failures at earth-dams, dikes and levees, whether through overtopping and overflowing, or internal erosion and piping. This book is dedicated to the phenomenon of internal erosion and piping. It is not...
Taking a global perspective, this book provides a concise overview of drylands, including their physical, biological, temporal, and human components. Examines the physical systems occurring in desert environments, including climate, hydrology,...
Mankind is using a greater variety of metals in greater quantities than ever before. As a result there is increasing global concern over the long-term availability of secure and adequate supplies of the metals needed by society. Critical metals,...
Coal Geology, second edition, offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of this popular book which provides a comprehensive overview of the field of coal geology. Coal Geology covers all aspects of coal geology in one volume, bridging the...
Руководитель – глава коллектива. Он формирует коллектив, способный достигать поставленных целей, и обеспечивает его жизнеспособность. Он задает систему отношений, в основе которой уважение к труду, человеку труда, внимание к его нуждам и...
Приведен анализ состояния классификации углей по их склонности к окислению. Показано, что наиболее важным недостатком существующей классификации является отсутствие количественных показателей и методов их измерения, на основании которых...
Рассмотрено управление геомеханическими процессами, характерными для подземной открытой и комбинированной разработки твердых полезных ископаемых. Включены разделы по геомеханике комбинированной разработки, подработке водных объектов. Для...
Приведены основные положения новых воззрений на устойчивость и деформируемость породных откосов отвалов на карьерах. С привлечением знаний и свойств физических тел из различных областей науки (климатология, геология месторождений полезных...
Based on an international symposium addressing a key issue in global development, this reference includes both the latest methodologies for and practical examples of effective management of transboundary water resources. Its multidisciplinary...
Effects of global warming on the physical, chemical, ecological structure and function and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems are not well understood and there are many opinions on how to adapt aquatic environments to global warming in order...
Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today. Since the Earth’s origin 4.55 billion years ago magmatic processes have continued to shape the Earth,...
An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures. This book reviews the recent progress in the study of the turbulent flows that sculpt the Earth’s surface, focusing in...
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 201. Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System brings together for the first time a detailed description of the physics of the IT system in...
Adaptation is the poor cousin of the climate change challenge – the glamour of international debate is around global mitigation agreements, while the bottom-up activities of adaptation, carried out in community halls and local government...
The quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change on water availability and water resources management requires knowledge of climate, hydro(geo)logical and water resources models, and particularly the relationships between each of...
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...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the first longitudinal study of the downstream response of a major river to the establishment of a large hydropower facility and dams. Peace River, a northward flowing boreal river in northwestern...
Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide focuses attention on two urgent global development challenges faced by the UN and its member states: access to sustainable energy for all, and global climate change....
This book is about weather extremes in the United Kingdom. It presents fascinating and detailed insights into tornadoes (supercell and non-supercell tornadoes, historical and contemporary case studies, frequency and spatial distributions, and...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of relative fidelity preservation processing methods and their applications within the oil and gas sector. Four key principles for wide-frequency relative fidelity preservation processing are...
The time has come. You are an Earth scientist. You’ve spent weeks, months, years working on this project – now is the time to pull it together for publication. You might be writing an undergraduate or graduate thesis, a research paper for a...
Provides the first comprehensive review of the current state of the science on tills It is critical that glacial scientists continue to refine their interpretations of ancient archives of subglacial processes, specifically those represented by...
Petrophysics is the science of evaluating the rock and fluid properties of oil, gas and water reservoirs through the acquisition of physical samples, electrical, chemical, nuclear and magnetic data acquired by surface logging, downhole coring,...
Recent hydrometeorological extreme events have highlighted the increased exposure and vulnerability of societies and the need to strengthen the knowledge-base of related policies. Current research is focused on improving forecasting, prediction...
The Alps, with their outstanding outcrop conditions, represent a superb natural laboratory for many geological processes, and have played a crucial role in the history of geology. This book gives an up-to-date and holistic overview of the key...
This book describes the fundamental scientific principles underlying high quality instrumentation used for environmental measurements. It discusses a wide range of in situ sensors employed in practical environmental monitoring and, in...
Hydrometeorology presents an introduction to relevant topics in the interdisciplinary fields of hydrology and meteorology. This book is one of the few books aiming to provide a balance between aspects of meteorological and hydrological...
The only book that offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date coverage of hydroacoustic ocean exploration, this work deals with the diagnostics of non-uniformities in a water medium using the hydroacoustic parametric antenna. The...
Seismic inversion aims to reconstruct a quantitative model of the Earth subsurface, by solving an inverse problem based on seismic measurements. There are at least three fundamental issues to be solved simultaneously: non-linearity,...
Mathematical models have become a crucial way for the Earth scientist to understand and predict how our planet functions and evolves through time and space. The finite element method (FEM) is a remarkably flexible and powerful tool with enormous...
What do we mean by the tropics? The weather and the climates it produces across the tropical zone are significantly different from those experienced by the people living in higher latitudes, so forecasters across Europe and much of North America...
This book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide. The summaries at the end of each section constitute...
To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth’s climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of sciences, not just the rock record uncovered by geologists. In...
This fully revised edition provides a modern overview of the intersection of hydrology, water quality, and water management at the rural-urban interface. The book explores the ecosystem services available in wetlands, natural channels and...
Glaciers are considered a key and an iconic indicator of climate change. The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that global alpine balance has been negative for 35 consecutive years. This highlights the dire future that alpine glaciers...
In the biogeochemical dynamics of marine ecosystems, silicon is a major element whose role has, for a long time, been underestimated. It is however indispensable to the activity of several biomineralizing marine organisms, some of which play an...
This book presents an up to date view of iron biogeochemistry in the ocean. It encompasses the description of iron speciation, the analytical methods used to measure the different iron forms in seawater and the different iron biogeochemical models.