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  • History of Engineering and Technology

    Artful Methods

    by Ervan G. Garrison ...
    A History of Engineering and Technology offers a highly readable account of the development of engineering and technology from prehistory to the present. The author uses the broad sweep of history as a backdrop for expositions of important benchmarks in engineered works and products. The book presents early hydraulic engineering in the context of modern ideas relating technology to the complex ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Techniques in Archaeological Geology

    by Ervan Garrison ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This 2nd edition is a survey level review of key areas of archaeological geology/geoarchaeology. Principal subject areas include:historical principles;archaeologic and geomorphic surfaces and landforms types;sediments and sediment analytic methods;archaeological stoney materials - petrographic and mineralogic attributes;ceramic materials - mineralogic composition and analytic methods;<l... ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

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  • Mother Nature Is Awesome (From Volcanoes To Earthquakes)

    Children's Books for Nature

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Series series Books For Kids Series
    As children see things in our movie theaters and television sets, they are probably often left wondering why they are not able to see some of the scenery in their very own hometowns. This is when they begin to learn how large the world is, and what all is contained within it. A Mother Nature Is Awesome (From Volcanoes to Earthquakes) Picture Book will greatly help them to understand that there is ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth

    The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart of Our World

    by Dr David Whitehouse ...
    The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine.Over 3,000 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size of Mars awaits us.Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere - an iron-clad world held within a metal sea and unattached to anything above.At the earth's core is the history of our planet ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Earth Materials

    Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology

    by Cornelis Klein, Anthony Philpotts ...
    This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed specifically for one-semester courses, it is beautifully illustrated to explain the key concepts in mineralogy and petrology. This edition has been fully ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Minerals

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Vaughan ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Minerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems that we are only now beginning to understand. Exploring the traditional strand of mineralogy, which emphasises the important mineral families, the well-established analytical methods (optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction) and the dramatic developments ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks

    by Sam Boggs, Jr ...
    This textbook outlines the physical, chemical, and biologic properties of the major sedimentary rocks, as revealed by petrographic microscopy, geochemical techniques, and field study. It covers the mineralogy, chemistry, textures, and sedimentary structures that characterise sedimentary rocks, and relates these features to the depositional origin of the rocks and their subsequent alteration by ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Metasomatism and the Chemical Transformation of Rock

    The Role of Fluids in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Processes

    by Daniel Harlov, Hakon Austrheim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Fluid-aided mass transfer and subsequent mineral re-equilibration are the two defining features of metasomatism and must be present in order for metamorphism to occur. Coupled with igneous and tectonic processes, metasomatism has played a major role in the formation of the Earth’s continental and oceanic crust and lithospheric mantle as well as in their evolution and subsequent stabilization. ... Read more

    $255.99 CAD

  • Layered Intrusions

    Edited by Bernard Charlier, Olivier Namur, Rais Latypov, Christian Tegner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This edited work contains the most recent advances related to the study of layered intrusions and cumulate rocks formation. The first part of this book presents reviews and new views of processes producing the textural, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of layered igneous rocks. The second part summarizes progress in the study of selected layered intrusions and their ore deposits from ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Origin of Potassium-rich Silica-deficient Igneous Rocks

    by Alok Krishna Gupta ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book summarizes the occurrence, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology and phase-equilibria studies in air and under high pressures related to the most intriguing group of potassium-rich mafic and ultramafic rocks, often including host of exotic mineral assemblages including feldspathoids. Mantle-derived K-rich melts had intrigued most of the founders of Geology and many of the later experts in ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Australia's Little Space Travellers

    The Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia

    by Don McColl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world’s finest known examples. It provides an overview of their forms and flight features, which can be expected to appear, at least in part, on any objects falling from space. Some of these specimens are so perfectly shaped that it is hard to believe that they have been ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Carbonatite Volcanism

    Oldoinyo Lengai and the Petrogenesis of Natrocarbonatites

    Edited by Jörg Keller, Keith Bell ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the last few years, carbonatites have received a considerable amount of attention. Some of this interest was no doubt kindled by the importance of volatiles in the Earth's mantle, particularly CO , by the fact that carbonatites 2 can be used to monitor the chemical evolution of the sub-continental upper mantle, and by the fact that carbonatites may be effective metasomatizing agents at both ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD