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  • 1
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    Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press
    Keywords: Alps ; Austria ; climate change
    Description / Table of Contents: The history of climate change in the valleys near Rauris and Flattach north and south of the Hohe Tauern mountain ridge was investigated in the project “A Tale of Two Valleys”. The story begins long before human settlement and projects into the future. Increasing impact of human activity causes a growing responsibility for the climate on earth. Concurrently precautions are required to cope with the adverse effects of climate change. Change is a fact. Understanding interactions between climate, landscape, and economy is pivotal to meet the challenge. | Sich heute mit den Alpen zu befassen bedeutet eine Reihe großer und unterschiedlicher Themen anzugehen, Themen, die von der Vielfalt und Ausdehnung des Territoriums, der Größe und der Vielfalt der Bevölkerung, der Verschiedenheit und der unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeit der Umwandlungsprozesse abhängen, die seit mehr als einem Jahrhundert und in verschiedenster Weise die große Gebirgskette der Alpen mit ihren diversen Teilen beeinflusst, welche diese Vorgänge zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten und in unterschiedlicher Weise erlebt und erlitten haben oder noch erleiden. Dieser Band vereinigt die Beiträge maßgeblicher Exponenten aus der Welt der Kultur, der Politik und der Wirtschaft, die ihre Thesen und Ergebnisse anlässlich der Fünften Internationalen Tagung der Rete Montagna in Chiavenna (I) und Castasegna (CH) zum Thema „Die Alpen im Wandel zwischen Risiken und Chancen“ vortrugen.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783902719447
    Language: German
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  • 2
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    Washington, DC : Mineralogical Society of America
    Description / Table of Contents: In the two decades since J. Alexander Speer's Zircon chapter in Orthosilicates (Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 5), much has been learned about the internal textures, trace-element and isotope geochemistry (both radiogenic and stable) and chemical and mechanical stability of zircon. The application of this knowledge and the use of zircon in geologic studies have become widespread. Today, the study of zircon exists as the pseudo-discipline of "zirconology" that involves materials scientists and geoscientists from across a range of sub-disciplines including stable and radiogenic isotopes, sedimentology, petrology, trace elements and experimental mineralogy. Zirconology has become an important field of research, so much so that coverage of the mineral zircon in a review volume that included zircon as one of many accessory minerals would not meet the needs or interests of the zirconology community in terms of depth or breadth of coverage. The sixteen chapters in this volume cover the most important aspects of zircon-related research over the past twenty-years and highlight possible future research avenues. Finch and Hanchar (Chapter 1) review the structure of zircon and other mineral (and synthetic) phases with the zircon structure. In most rock types where zircon occurs it is a significant host of the rare-earth elements, Th and U. The abundances of these elements and the form of chondrite-normalized rare-earth element patterns may provide significant information on the processes that generate igneous and metamorphic rocks. The minor and trace element compositions of igneous, metamorphic and hydrothermal zircons are reviewed by Hoskin and Schaltegger in Chapter 2. The investigation of melt inclusions in zircon is an exciting line of new research. Trapped melt inclusions can provide direct information of the trace element and isotopic composition of the melt from which the crystal formed as a function of time throughout the growth of the crystal. Thomas et a!. (Chapter 3) review the study of melt inclusions in zircon. Hanchar and Watson (Chapter 4) review experimental and natural studies of zircon saturation and the use of zircon saturation thermometry for natural rocks. Cation diffusion and oxygen diffusion in zircon is discussed by Cherniak and Watson (Chapter 5). Diffusion studies are essential for providing constraints on the quality of trace element and isotope data and for providing estimates of temperature exposure in geological environments. Zircon remains the most widely utilized accessory mineral for U- Th-Pb isotope geochronology. Significant instrumental and analytical developments over the past thirty years mean that zircon has an essential role in early Achaean studies, magma genesis, and astrobiology. Four chapters are devoted to different aspects of zircon geochronology. The first of these four, Chapter 6 by Davis et a!., reviews the historical development of zircon geochronology from the mid-1950s to the present; the following three chapters focus on particular techniques for zircon geochronology, namely ID-TIMS (Parrish and Noble, Chapter 7), SIMS (Ireland and Williams, Chapter 8) and ICP-MS (Kosier and Sylvester, Chapter 9). The application of zircon chronology in constraining sediment provenance.and the calibration ofthe geologic time-scale are reviewed by Fedo et al. (Chapter 10) and Bowring and Schmitz (Chapter 11), respectively. Other isotopic systematics are reviewed for zircon by Kinny and Maas (Chapter 12), who discuss the application of Nd-Sm and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircon to petrogenetic studies, and by Valley (Chapter 13), who discusses the importance of oxygen isotopic studies in traditional and emerging fields of geologic study. As a host of U and Th, zircon is subject to radiation damage. Radiation damage is likely responsible for isotopic disturbance and promotes mechanical instability. There is increasing interest in both the effect of radiation damage on the zircon crystal structure and mechanisms of damage and recrystallization, as well as the structure of the damaged phase. These studies contribute to an overall understanding of how zircon may behave as a waste-form for safe disposal of radioactive waste and are discussed by Ewing et a!. (Chapter 14). The spectroscopy of zircon, both crystalline and metamict is reviewed by Nadsala et a!. (Chapter 15). The final chapter, by Corfu et al. (Chapter 16), is an atlas of internal textures of zircon. The imaging of internal textures in zircon is essential for directing the acquisition of geochemical data and to the integrity of conclusions reached once data has been collected and interpreted. This chapter, for the first time, brings into one place textural images that represent common and not so common textures reported in the literature, along with brief interpretations of their significance. There is presently no comparable atlas. It is intended that this chapter will become a reference point for future workers to compare and contrast their own images against. The chapters in this volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry were prepared for presentation at a Short Course, sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) in Freiburg, Germany, April 3-4, 2003. This preceded a joint meeting of the European Union of Geology, the American Geophysical Union and the European Geophysical Society held in Nice, France, April 6-11, 2003.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 500 Seiten)
    ISBN: 0939950650
    Language: English
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  • 3
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    Rijeka : InTech
    Keywords: mineralogy ; zeolite
    Description / Table of Contents: This book collects recent results about research activities on zeolites, from synthesis to application. It is composed of two sections. The first is devoted to articles and brief review articles on the synthesis of zeolite from fly ash and final application of these newly formed minerals to solve environmental problems. The second part of the book provides useful information on different applications both of natural and synthetic zeolites ranging from environmental pollution to industrial and commercial applications. The performance of zeolite molecular sieves, hollow titanium zeolites and luminescent zeolites is interesting considering the new frontiers reached by the research on zeolites. This book is a useful instrument for researchers, teachers and students who are interested in investigating innovative aspects of the studies on zeolite.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535125778
    Language: English
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  • 4
    Keywords: Marine Sciences ; Aquatic biology ; Biodiversity ; Endangered ecosystems ; Wildlife management ; Science ; Study and teaching ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Freshwater & Marine Ecology ; Biodiversity ; Ecosystems ; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management ; Science Education
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. YOUMARES – A Conference from and for YOUng MARine RESearchers --- 2. Can Climate Models Simulate the Observed Strong Summer Surface Cooling in the Equatorial Atlantic? --- 3. The Physical System of the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas in a Changing Climate --- 4. Marine Optics and Ocean Color Remote Sensing --- 5. Phytoplankton Responses to Marine Climate Change – An Introduction --- 6. Reading the Book of Life – Omics as a Universal Tool Across Disciplines --- 7. Bio-Telemetry as an Essential Tool in Movement Ecology and Marine Conservation --- 8. How Do They Do It? – Understanding the Success of Marine Invasive Species --- 9. For a World Without Boundaries: Connectivity Between Marine Tropical Ecosystems in Times of Change --- 10. Arctic Ocean Biodiversity and DNA Barcoding – A Climate Change Perspective --- 11. Regime Shifts – A Global Challenge for the Sustainable Use of our Marine Resources --- 12. Biodiversity and the Functioning of Ecosystems in the Age of Global Change: Integrating Knowledge Across Scales --- 13. Microplastics in Aquatic Systems – Monitoring Methods and Biological Consequences --- Appendix 1. List of Conference Participants --- Appendix 2. Conference Sessions and Abstracts
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 251 pages) , 58 illustrations, 46 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319932842
    Language: English
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  • 5
    Keywords: hydrological forecasting ; hydro-meteorological extremes, floods and droughts ; global climate change and antropogenic impacts on hydrological processes ; water management ; floods, morphological processes, erosion, sediment transport and sedimentation ; developments in hydrology
    Description / Table of Contents: This volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science presents a selection of papers that were given at the 24th Conference of the Danube Countries. Within the framework of the International Hydrological Program IHP of UNESCO. Since 1961 the Danube countries have successfully co-operated in organizing conferences on Hydrological Forecasting and Hydrological Water Management Issues. The 24th Conference of the Danube Countries took place between 2-4 June 2008 in Bled, Slovenia and was organized by the National Committee of Slovenia for the International Hydrological Program of UNESCO, under the auspices of the President of Republic of Slovenia. It was organized jointly by the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO and the Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, under the support of UNESCO, WMO, and IAHS...
    Language: English
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  • 6
    Keywords: environmental research ; environmental degradation ; research policy and organisation ; environment policy and protection of the environment ; adaptation to climate change ; arid zone ; atlas ; degradation of the environment ; demography ; desertification ; environmental policy ; environmental protection ; environmental research ; erosion ; natural disaster ; research report ; soil pollution ; soil protection ; soil science ; sustainable agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: The third edition of the World Atlas of Desertification (WAD3) takes a fresh look at land degradation – a phenomenon triggered by human land use that is likely to threaten our ability to make productive use of the Earth while still maintaining the critical global environmental goods and services in the future. Human activity is a main driver of global environmental changes. Where issues that signal global change coincide, they may lead to land transformations that can cause degradation of the land resource. Global telecoupled and dynamic human consumption patterns precipitate interaction of these issues and their impact at the local level. Accommodating this complexity, WAD3 offers an information framework from which to identify the nature of potential problems and pursue solutions that conform to local conditions. The two decades since publication of WAD2 saw a tremendous growth in our understanding of coupled-human and natural systems, and an overwhelming increase in global environmental datasets and analytical tools. Building on these advances, WAD3 portrays the dynamic human footprint on Earth and its consequences for the land resources. WAD3 identifies areas of concern where multiple lines of evidence converge that suggest potential problems so that they might be confirmed and suggest actions to reverse, arrest, or adapt to them.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (248 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: 3rd edition
    ISBN: 9789279753497
    Language: English
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  • 7
    Keywords: Geography ; Urban geography ; Labor economics ; Human geography ; Economic development ; Geography ; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) ; Labor Economics ; Human Geography ; Regional Development
    Description / Table of Contents: Cities in Time and Space --- Working --- Housing --- Conclusion Remarks: Urbanization --- the Future
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 60 pages) , 11 illustrations, 7 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319451800
    Language: English
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  • 8
    Keywords: forecast ; sand storm ; dust storm ; warning system ; aeolian dust ; aerosol
    Description / Table of Contents: This volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science presents a selection of papers that were given at the WMO/GEO Expert Meeting on an International Sand and Dust Storm Warning System hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación in Barcelona (Spain) on 7-9 November 2007 (http://www.bsc.es/wmo). A sand and dust storm (SDS) is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions and arises when a gust front passes or when the wind force exceeds the threshold value where loose sand and dust are removed from the dry surface. After aeolian uptake, SDS reduce visibility to a few meters in and near source regions, and dust plumes are transported over distances as long as thousands of kilometres. Aeolian dust is unique among aerosol phenomena: (1) with the possible exception of sea-salt aerosol, it is globally the most abundant of all aerosol species, (2) it appears as the dominating component of atmospheric aerosol over large areas of the Earth, (3) it represents a serious hazard for life, health, property, environment and economy (occasionally reaching the grade of disaster or catastrophic event) and (4) its influence, impacts, complex interactions and feedbacks within the Earth System span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. From a political and societal point of view, the concern for SDS and the need for international cooperation were reflected after a survey conducted in 2005 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in which more than forty WMO Member countries expressed their interest for creating or improving capacities for SDS warning advisory and assessment. In this context, recent major advances in research – including, for example, the development and implementation of advanced observing systems, the theoretical understanding of the mechanisms responsible for sand and dust storm generation and the development of global and regional dust models – represent the basis for developing applications focusing on societal benefit and risk reduction. However, at present there are interdisciplinary research challenges to overwhelm current uncertainties in order to reach full potential. Furthermore, the community of practice for SDS observations, forecasts and analyses is mainly scientifically based and rather disconnected from potential users. This requires the development of interfaces with operational communities at international and national levels, strongly focusing on the needs of people and factors at risk ... The general objective of the WMO/GEO Expert Meeting on an International Sand and Dust Storm Warning System was to discuss and recommend actions needed to develop a global routine SDS-WAS based on integrating numerical SDS prediction and observing systems, and on establishing effective cooperation between data producers and user communities in order to provide SDS-WAS products capable of contributing to the reduction of risks from SDS. The specific objectives were: to identify, present and suggest future real-time observations for forecast verification and dust surveillance: satellite, ground-based remote sensing (passive and active) and in-situ monitoring; to present ongoing forecasting activities; to discuss and identify user needs: health, air quality, air transport operations, ocean, and others; to identify and discuss dust research issues relevant for operational forecast applications; to present the concept of SDS-WAS and Regional Centers...
    Language: English
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  • 9
    Keywords: Metamorphes Gestein ; Metamorphose (Geologie) ; Metamorphism (Geology) ; Rocks, Metamorphic ; Metamorphe Gesteine ; Endogene Geologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Peter J. Treloar and Patrick J. O’Brien: Introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:1-5, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.01 --- K. V. Hodges: The thermodynamics of Himalayan orogenesis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:7-22, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.02 --- R. A. Jamieson, C. Beaumont, P. Fullsack, and B. Lee: Barrovian regional metamorphism: where’s the heat? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:23-51, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.03 --- Donna L. Whitney and Yildirim Dilek: Characterization and interpretation of P-T paths with multiple thermal peaks / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:53-60, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.04 --- J. Reche, F. J. Martínez, and M. L. Arboleya: Low- to medium-pressure Variscan metamorphism in Galicia (NW Spain): evolution of a kyanite-bearing synform and associated bounding antiformal domains / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:61-79, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.05 --- Simon L. Harley: On the occurrence and characterization of ultrahigh-temperature crustal metamorphism / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:81-107, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.06 --- Mike Sandiford and Martin Hand: Australian Proterozoic high-temperature, low-pressure metamorphism in the conductive limit / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:109-120, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.07 --- Roger L. Gibson and Gary Stevens: Regional metamorphism due to anorogenic intracratonic magmatism / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:121-135, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.08 --- Michael Brown: Ridge-trench interactions and high-T-low-P metamorphism, with particular reference to the Cretaceous evolution of the Japanese Islands / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:137-169, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.09 --- Nigel Harris and Michael Ayres: The implications of Sr-isotope disequilibrium for rates of prograde metamorphism and melt extraction in anatectic terrains / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:171-182, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.10 --- Alan Whittington, Nigel Harris, and Judy Baker: Low-pressure crustal anatexis: the significance of spinel and cordierite from metapelitic assemblages at Nanga Parbat, northern Parkistan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:183-198, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.11 --- David C. Rubie: Disequilibrium during metamorphism: the role of nucleation kinetics / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:199-214, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.12 --- R. H. Vernon: Chemical and volume changes during deformation and prograde metamorphism of sediments / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:215-246, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.13 --- Andrew J. Barker and Xing Zhang: The role of microcracking and grain-boundary dilation during retrograde reactions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:247-268, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.14 --- Brenton Worley and Roger Powell: Making movies: phase diagrams changing in pressure, temperature, composition and time / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 138:269-280, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.138.01.15
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 287 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    ISBN: 1862390096
    Language: English
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  • 10
    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Environmental management ; Environmental sciences ; Geoecology ; Environmental geology ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Science and Engineering ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Geoecology/Natural Processes
    Description / Table of Contents: Wetlands and Water Framework Directive: protection, management and climate change --- Synergies and Conflicts between Water Framework Directive and Natura 2000: Legal requirements, technical guidance and experiences from practice --- Can Natura 2000 Sites Benefit from River Basin Management Planning Under a Changing Climate? Lessons from Germany --- Do water management and climate-adapted management of wetlands interfere in practice? Lessons from the Biebrza Valley, Poland --- Wetlands in river valleys as an effect of fluvial processes and anthropopression --- New vision of the role of land reclamation systems in nature protection and water management
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 103 pages) , 19 illustrations, 12 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319137643
    Language: English
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