Dinosaur Frontier is the first popular publication about Utah's Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation and the dinosaurs and other fossils found within it. For the past several decades, the Cedar Mountain Formation has been the locus of a revolution in paleontology, and the dinosaur finds alone from the formation have more than doubled the number of dinosaur taxa known from the state.

Uploaded June 2025

The Age of Dinosaurs This time in Earth's history is famous for the great reptiles that have captured the hearts and imaginations of people worldwide. But dinosaurs didn't appear until late in the period known as the Triassic, and at that point in history, many other animals were bigger, fiercer and odder. The day of the dinosaurs had a dawn and the Late Triassic was it.

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Provides detailed and need-to-know information on various careers in the highly specialized world of earth science and its many facets. Each chapter provides a wealth of real-world information including A Day in the Life, Work Environment, Education & Training, Earnings & Advancement, Employment Outlook, and Conversations with Real Professionals, as well as contacts for more information.

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This book discusses the evolution of the palaeoecology and the palaeoenvironment of the Permian and Triassic fluvial basins in Europe.

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Papers by W.Q. Kennedy and others, presented at a joint meeting of the Institute of Petroleum and the Geological Society, held at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, Mar. 3, 1965.

Uploaded March 2025

As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet's waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice? This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to articulate aspects of the cold humanities.

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Records of Disasters: Media Infrastructures and Climate Change explores how environmental disasters manifest and inscribe themselves in infrastructures. By turning to infrastructures, their logic and functioning, collapse and malfunction, the volume reveals their potential as fragile material witnesses to and of disasters. As climate change is unequally distributed across continuous dynamics and events, time scales and spatial registers, infrastructures can be understood as proxies or seismographs mediating different spatio-temporal layers that make these dynamics tangible. Disaster is made operational by negotiating what is defined as such, and under which geopolitical conditions. What connects melting glaciers and the knowledge from ice cores to the mapping of the ocean floor and the extraction of resources in the deep-sea?

Uploaded March 2025

The first part of this handy, pocket-sized book presents an overview of the world of rocks and their setting in Earth.

Uploaded March 2025

The book also draws conclusions about the value of role theory in general and about environmental foreign policy decisions in developing countries, which will be of value to both policy-makers and academics.

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How to cope with climate change? Observing that efforts to mitigate rising temperatures are falling disastrously short, John Barkdull argues that policy must shift toward adaptation and considers what this entails.

Uploaded March 2025