Introduction -- Common Trace-Making Endobenthic Invertebrates -- Descriptive Ichnology -- Biophysical Mechanisms of Crab Burrowing -- Ichnozones and their Characterization -- Preservation of Traces -- Ichnofacies and Ichnofabrics -- Spatio-Temporal Changes in Ichnozones -- Geological Significance -- Summary and Conclusions.This book focuses on the world’s largest mangrove delta complex, locat…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Glacier changes since the Little Ice Age -- Chapter 3. An inventory of proglacial systems in Austria, Switzerland and across Patagonia -- Chapter 4. Debris-covered glaciers -- Chapter 5. Closing the balance of ice, water and sediment fluxes through the terminus of Gepatschferner -- Chapter 6. (Ground) Ice in the proglacial zone -- Chapter 7. Periglacial mor…
1:Introduction -- 2:Background -- 3:The geological formations of the Mesozoic complex -- 4:The basic eruptive rocks of the Alvear and Sorondo ranges (Mount Olivia) -- 5:The Cretaceous layers younger than the Early Cretaceous -- 6:The estimated basement for the Fuegian Andes Mesozoic stratigraphic series and the rocks considered to be as of pre-Mesozoic age -- 7:A synthesis about the stratigraph…
Introduction -- Basic knowledge of geochemical processes -- Sedimentology of travertine -- Methods -- Geomicrobiologial processes for laminated textures -- Geochemical model for rapid carbonate precipitation of travertines -- Travertines in Japan -- Concluding remarks.This book presents basic knowledge and key objectives of research of geological, geochemical, and microbial properties and proce…
Dedication -- Thanks -- Preface -- 1 Definitions and Setting -- 2 Magnitude and Sourcing -- 3 Slope Gradients -- 4 Fan Morphometry -- 5 Drainage -- 6 Flows -- 7 Aggradation -- 8 Fan Entrenchment -- 9 Textural and Facies Characteristics -- 10 Pedogenic Processes -- 11 The Tectonic Control -- 12 The Climatic Control -- 13 the Base Level Effect -- 14 Groundwater -- 15 Morphology of the Fan Surface…
Early Cretaceous Giant Dyke Swarm in the eonatorial Brazilian Margin: Geodynamic Implications for the West Gondwana Breakup -- Mafic Dyke Swarms of the Sao Francisco Craton, Brazil and their Tectonic Significance -- Mapping the dyke swarms of the Indian shield -- U-Pb SHRIMP-Ⅱ Baddeleyite and zircon dating of the Early Proterozoic Monchegorsk layered mafic-ultramafic complex (Kola Peninsula)…
Rocky Coasts and Cliffs -- Lineal Sandy Coasts and Beaches -- Fluvio Marine Systems -- Coastal Dunes -- Coast-Human Interaction Problems and Coastal Management.This monograph presents the state of art of the geologic knowledge about the Spanish coast obtained through scientific research in the last 30 years. From a general point of view, coasts are the most quickly changing systems of the Earth…
1. Tracks and Trackways -- 2. Introduction to optical laser scanning and photogrammetry -- 3. Field Methods in Forensic footwear analysis -- 4. Field Methods in vertebrate ichnology -- 5.Techniques in three dimensional digital data handling -- 6. Introduction to DigTrace -- 7. Forensic: Case studies -- 8. Vertebrate ichnology: Case Studies -- 9. Future development -- 10. Appendix: User Manual t…
Introduction -- Total Subsidence Analysis -- Tectonic Subsidence Analysis -- Thermal Subsidence Analysis -- Subsidence Visualization with BasinVis 1.5.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to techniques for quantitative subsidence analysis and visualization with example applications. Subsidence analysis is an essential step to understand basin evolution through geologic time and space…