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J. Poblet, "Kinematic Evolution and Structural Styles of Fold-and-Thrust Belts - Special Publication 349 (Geological Society Special Publication)"


J. Poblet, "Kinematic Evolution and Structural Styles of Fold-and-Thrust Belts - Special Publication 349 (Geological Society Special Publication)"
Publisher: Geological Society of London | ISBN 10: 1862393206 | 2011 | PDF | 293 pages | 14.5 MB

Fold-and-thrust belts occur worldwide, have formed in all eras of geological time, and are widely recognized as the most common mode in which the crust accommodates shortening. Much current research on the structure of fold-and-thrust belts is focused on structural studies of regions or individual structures and on the geometry and evolution of these regions employing kinematic, mechanical and experimental modelling. In keeping with the main trends of current research, this title is devoted to the kinematic evolution and structural styles of a number of fold-and-thrust belts formed from Palaeozoic to Recent times. The papers included in this book cover a broad range of different topics, from modelling approaches to predict internal deformation of single structures, 3D reconstructions to decipher the structural evolution of groups of structures, palaeomagnetic studies of portions of fold-and-thrust belts, geometrical and kinematical aspects of Coulomb thrust wedges and structural analyses of fold-and-thrust belts to unravel their sequence of deformations.

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"Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology" by James Lawrence Powell


"Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology" by James Lawrence Powell
Second printing
W.H. Freeman & Co. | 1998 | ISBN: 0716731177 9780716731177 | 266 pages | PDF | 4 MB

“What decimated life on Earth 65 million years ago? This book is the a comprehensive and objective account of how this incredible theory has changed the course of science. This book is an elegant masterpiece of science writing.

Contents
Preface
Prologue - The Great Mystery
1 The Alvarez Discovery
2 The Past as Key to the Present
3 Stones from the Skv
4 Theory on Trial
5 Counterattack
6 The Volcanic Rival
7 To Catch a Crater
8 Clues from the Fossil Record
9 A Whimper or a Bang?
10 The Death of the Dinosaurs
11 Are All Mass Extinctions Caused by Collision?
12 Are Extinction and Cratering Periodic?
References
Index
 
 
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"Biology, Sociology, Geology by Computational Physicists, Volume 1 (Monograph Series on Nonlinear Science and Complexity)"


"Biology, Sociology, Geology by Computational Physicists, Volume 1 (Monograph Series on Nonlinear Science and Complexity)"
Elsevier Science; 1 edition | English | 2006-04-17 | ISBN: 0444521461 | 286 pages | PDF | 4.5 mb

The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in individuals, for the living world around us.

- Interdisciplinary coverage
- Research oriented
- Contains and explains programs
- Based on recent discoveries
- Little special knowledge required besides programming
- Suitable for undergraduate and graduate research projects.