The change of seasons is most clearly distinguishable in the appearances of mountains. Councurrently with snow-melting, the yellowish green colored sprouts of plants attract our attention and tell us the advent of spring on mountains. And when the leaves change their colour from fresh green to dark green, we are informed that the rainy seasons is over and the summer is setting in.
Geodynamics, the study of global movements and of the forces driving them, is a rekatively fresh offshoot from the vigorously branching tree of the earth sciences. Before the advent of Alfred Wegener on this scene in the early nineteen-hundreds, the idea of permanency in the distribution of continents and oceans was almost sacrosanct.
Das Antlitz der Erde, or “The Face of the Earth”, was the title of the first great magnum opus on the gross surface features of the earth by Eduard Suess late last century. A recent British television documentary with the same purpose bore the same title.
The impetus for publishing this set of articles was the realization that, year after year. I and my students at Stanford were making copies (with varying degrees of legibility and legality) of the same classic articles on plate tectonics and geomagnetic reversals. At first we did this because there was so little material on the subject available.
The wavefields generated by strombolion activity are investigated using data from small-aperture (120-600 m) seismic arrays deployed on the north flank of Stromboli and data from seismic and pressure transducers set up near the summit crater.
Volcanism is one of nature’s primal spectacles. It commands our attention, whether for its awesome power, its danger, or its beauty. The years 1975-85 brought dramatic examples of volcanism – from the 1980 blasts of Mt. St. Helens, through the continuing lava river of Hawaii, to the tragic eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz in 1985 and these have been abundantly documented by the news…
The tectonic concept known as seafloor spreading , global tectonics and also as plate tectonics began engulfing the geological community in the early sixties. Within less than a decade this unifying, geotectonic hypothesis beame widely known, and judging from the current literature, it has also been widely accepted.
This book is a collection of Prof. Dr. John Ario Katili publications from various international journals about Indonesian tectonic and resources. The idea of producing this book was stated on the way to Islamic World Academic of Science Conference, Ankara, Turkey, 2006 when Prof. Dr. Ir. John Ario Katili showed his worries concerning the development of geology in Indonesia, mostly because there…
The monograph Geothermal Resources: An Energy Alternative by Harsh K. Gupta presents for the first time a readable, coherent account of all facets of geothermal energy development. The development of alternative, renewable energy resources during the past decade has been spurred by a crunch in the supplies of traditional hydrocarbon energy resources, which have previously been inexpensive and r…
This book is based at the level of a bachelor’s degree in physical science. Experience at Standford indicate that a one-semester class in engineering systems theory provides helpful additional background. It will be readable to a general science and engineering audience and should be useful to anyone interested in computer modelling and data analysis in physical sciences.