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Based on the graduate course in Earthquake Hydrology at Berkeley University, this text introduces the basic materials, provides a comprehensive overview of the field to interested readers and beginning researchers, and acts as a convenient reference point.

From the point of view of geological structure and evolution, Morocco is uniquely fascinating. This heavily-illustrated book presents new information gleaned from the vast amount of research conducted on Morocco's geology in recent decades.

Introduction.- Earthquake Early Warning Systems.- A Combined Geophysical/Engineering Approach of the Seismic Safety of Long-Span Bridges.- Earthquake Modelling in the Dead Sea Basin.- Nonlinear Seismology - The Seismology of the XXI Century.- Structure of the Upper Mantle beneath Northern Eurasia Derived from Russian Deep-Seismic PNE Profiles.- True-Amplitude Imaging.- Imaging of Orebodies with Vertical Seismic Profiling Data.- Tectonic Evolution of the Dead Sea Rift and its Effect on Civilization.- Escapades of the Aegean-Anatolian Block.- Real-Time Monitoring of the Slab Detachment in the SE-Carpathians.- Geodynamics and Seismicity of the Southeastern Carpathinas Inferred from Analytical to Three-Dimensional Modelling.

The coastal zone is subject to strong pressures from a large number of users. Industry wants to exploit it for its space, water and manpower. Aggregate miners want to exploit mineral resources and health centers are multiplying. However, coastlines are progressively receding worldwide, making the zone fragile, vulnerable, and unstable.

The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China killed over 69,000 people and displaced millions. This book describes the tectonic setting and historical earthquakes around the Chuan-Dian region, the nucleation of the Wenchuan earthquake, occurrence and aftershocks.

This book contains the proceedings of the Kalkowsky Symposium 2008, held in Goettingen, Germany. It highlights new ideas and information on the formation and environmental setting of stromatolites.

This book examines contemporary issues of fossil vertebrates that includes new insights of tetrapod evolution during Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras and the discovery of new vertebrate fossils, including dinosaurs from different continents.

Chapters include a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of our global understanding natural and artificial rockslide dams, overviews of approaches to rockslide dam risk mitigation, regional studies of rockslide dams in India, Nepal, China, Pakistan, New Zealand, and Argentina.

This book offers a broad interdisciplinary overview of state-of-the-art research on landform related issues. It presents a selection of papers given at the International Symposium on "Landform - structure, evolution process control", Bonn, June 2007.

GPS-Techniques Applied to Geodesy and Surveying contains the proceedings of an international workshop held in April 1988 at the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany. It presents a state-of-the-art description of GPS techniques applied to geodesy and surveying with emphasis on monitoring time dependent phenomena.

In engineering, statistical turbulence models describing locally the turbulence mixing processes were introduced in the early seventies, such as the k E model which is still one of the most widely used models in Computational Fluid Dy namics.

Characterisation of the shallow subsurface has gained in importance as civil and geotechnical engineering and environmental applications have become more dependent on a precise definition of geomechanical and geohydrological properties.

Geologists and civil engineers related to infrastructure planning, design and building describe professional practices and engineering geological methods in different European infrastructure projects.

In many aspects science becomes conducted nowadays through technology and preferential criteria of economy. Although new techniques for obser- tion and analysis led to an increase of rather speci?c knowledge about particular phenomena, yet we fail now even more frequently to avoid unforeseen impli- tions and sudden changes of a situation.

With mat- matical developments in the ?elds of dynamic system's theory, exempli?ed by Edward Lorenz's pioneering work, and fractal theory, starting with the early fractal concepts inferred by Harold Edwin Hurst from the analysis of geoph- ical time series,nonlinear methods became available for time seriesanalysis as well.

This book focuses on the earthquake source materials produced or deformed by both seismic faulting and aseismic creep within seismogenic fault zones at different levels of the crust.

This book details the nature and internal structure of a whole carbonate mound body and discusses the significance of the recent carbonate mound record. It highlights that recent carbonate mounds form an important category within deep-water carbonate systems.

This book contains state-of-the-art continuous wavelet analysis of one and more dimensional (geophysical) signals. It also contains an extension of standard wavelet approximation to the application of so-called second generation wavelets for efficient representation of signals at various scales even on the sphere and more complex geometries.

This book focuses on the experimental determination of the physical properties of silicate melts and magmas close to glass transition. and a range of different techniques are used to determine the same physical properties to illustrate the relationships between the relaxation of the melt structure and the relaxation of its physical properties.

Chemical modifications of supracrustal materials haveoccurred at various times in the Earth's history. Thisreference book gives an overlook over themost recentfindings of isotope research in the sedimentary environment.

This is the first book to cover the Holocene geology and geomorphology of the entire 8,500 kilometers of the Brazilian coast. It characterizes the coast in terms of Holocene geology, geomorphology, oceanographic conditions and the location of barrier types.

This book reflects on the results of the study of sedimentation history, paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography of the Arctic and Subarctic during the last 130 kyr. There is also discussion of geological-paleoecological aspects and land-ocean interaction.

This account should be of interest to those involved in the study of the ocean and seismic fields at very low frequencies and in the application of the wave-induced noise field as a source in inversion studies of seabed properties. Examples are provided to aid in the interpretation of field data.

This balanced and comprehensive overview of geology,tectonics, and mineral resources of Africa presentsmultifarious facets of Archean to Quaternary geology,including aspects of plate tectonics evolution andgeological history of the Earth's oldest continent.

For the first time, an assessment is made of the interactions between physical and biological elements of the Earth System on the basis of shifts in extreme climatic conditions, rather than simply changes in mean atmospheric conditions which research has tended to focus on until recently.

The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments. Starting with geochemistry and including new methods in sedimentology (sequence stratigraphy), it results in an interdisciplinary approach to a resource system covering all fields of phosphate geology.

Based on a course presented at the International Summer School of Theoretical Geodesy, this monograph explores the physical theory of ocean circulation, the theory of tides and ocean time-variability, as well as orbit theory.

Electromagnetic waves and their role in probing the earth are important for the exploration of the earth's deep crust. This book is not only for scientists in geophysics a useful source of information, but also for professionals in oil and gas exploration, geophysicists and engineers alike.

The book introduces the topic of geochemical modeling of fluids in subsurface and hydrothermal systems.