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Applied Hydrogeology
by C W Fetter
This best selling book, Applied Hydrogeology gives readers a balanced examination of all facets of hydrogeology. It text stresses the application of mathematics to problem solving rather than derivation of theory. It provides a balance between physical and chemical hydrogeology. Numerous case studies cultivate reader understanding of the occurrence and movement of ground water in a variety of geologic settings. This valuable reference includes five new case histories: The Dakota Aquifer, Fractures...
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Annals Of the Former World
by John McPhee
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978."Most mountain ranges around the world are the result of compression, of segments of the earth's crust being brought together, bent, mashed, thrust and folded, squeezed up into the sky-- the...
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson follows his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. From the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a profound, funny, and wonderfully clear and entertaining adventure into the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it.
Ecology
by Michael L Cain; William D Bowman; Sally D Hacker
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Weather Makers - the History and Future Impact Of Climate Change
by Tim Flannery
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Essentials Of Ecology
by Michael Begon, John L Harper Colin R Townsend
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Earth Science Books & Ephemera
RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET PETROGRAPHIQUES SUR L'OURAL DU NORD
by Duparc, Louis & Marguerite Tikanowitch
Soc, 1914-01-01. Paperback. Good. In French. 1914 Imprimerie Albert Kundig (Geneva, Switzerland) 9 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches tall paperbound in green printed wraps, 69-168 pp. Presentation copy from the authors. Presentation stamp and authors' signature and embossed stamp of Carnegie Institution of Washington Geophysical Laboratory to front cover. Covers are mildly stained, chipped and edgeworn. Paper is age-toned. Unopened signatures. Otherwise, a good, clean copy. Note that this is an oversized book,...
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A$29.94
MAKE THE MOST OF KRUGER
by Kruger National Park, Jacana
Col maps, drawings, tables and text ; 2 page markers. Booking form. Possible extra postage to overseas.
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A$26.36
Alternatives To Economic Globalization: A Report Of The International Forum On Globalization
by Report Drafting Committee
San Francisco CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Good. 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Library markings at spine, inside covers and at book edges - back cover corner is clipped. Text is unmarked. ; Ex-Library; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 268 pages .
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A$12.31
Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Rocky Mountain Sedimentary Basins November 1965, Volume 49, Number 11
by Hazzard (editor) , John C
American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Good. 1965. Paperback. Good paperback with tight binding and clean pages. Minor shelf wear to edges and corners of covers. Top of spine is bumped, creased and has a tear about 1/2" in length revealing the binding underneath. The front cover has one small check mark by one topic. ; 9.50 X 6.75 x 0.45 inches .
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A$28.44
GEOLOGY OF FORT RILEY RESERVATION AND OTHERS Bulletins 137 - 142bound
by Various Authors
Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. X-Lib. Clean green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with fold out charts; B/W plates and tables. Bulletins 137-142 of the United States Geological Surveys. Science, Geology; Ex-Library; Fold out Charts; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall .
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A$79.01
Limestone, Dolomite and Magnesite Resources of South Australia. Geological Survey of South Australia Bulletin No 38
by Johns, R.K. [Editor]
Adelaide: Government Printer. 1963. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Red cloth covered boards with some mild marks to front cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. Contains fold out maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 100 pages. Geological Survey of South Australia series. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$20.00
The Geological History of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin - National Park Service Occasional Paper Number Three
by McGrew, Paul O.; Michael Casilliano
National Park Service. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound. 7 3/4""w x 10 1/4""h. 38 pages. Many b&w photos. Light wear and scuffing to cover. Date of publication not shown; circa 1975.
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A$79.64
Man and the Glacial Period
by Wright, G. Frederick
NY: D. Appleton. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. B000R922HS . 1898 Appleton HC Russet cloth, gilt. outer wear, contents unmarked. Many maps, including color foldout frontis. Top edge gilt. index; 385 pages .
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A$17.38
l'Evolution de la Lithosphere II Orogenese Fascicule I
by Termier, H., Termier, G
Masson & Cie, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. In French. 1956 Masson and Cie (Paris), 7 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches tall x 1 1/2 inches thick blue cloth hardbound, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated, 498 pp., plus 41 full-page plates, many folding. Minor rubbing and edgewear to covers, with slight sunning to spine. Prior owner stamp to front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. A complete work, part of a multi-volume atlas of structural...
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A$47.32
The Ecology of Running Waters
by Hynes, H. B. N. [Noel] (Signed)
Canada: University of Toronto Press / Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1970. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author upon title page. 555 pages. Bibliography. Subject and organism indexes. Black and white illustrations. "Provides a comprehensive and critical review of the literature on the biology of rivers and streams... The bibliography contains over 1,500 entries of papers which has been cited in the text."...
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A$473.95
A World Between Waves (A Shearwater Book)
by Steward, Frank (ed.) Peter Matthiessen, Diane Ackerman, James D. Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, John McPhee, W.S. Merwin, Gavan Daws, Victoria Nelson, Kenneth Brower, Pamela Frierson, et al
Island Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 309 pages with 14 essays on the natural history of Hawaii.
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A$39.82
Outlines of the Geology of Northumberland and Durham
by G. A. Lebour
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Lambert and Company, Limited, 1886. 2nd Edition . Hard. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Good. Publishers cloth. Foxed. Smells musty. 156pp. 5 plates.
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A$19.66
Geo-Environment
by Martin-Duque, J. F. et al (editors)
Southampton, Boston.: Wit Press., 2004. First printing. . Hard. Fine. 8vo. 9 1/4".. Illustrated with diagrams and figures etc within text.. Fine. 358pp. RRP at time of listing £194.00.
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A$94.36
Principles of Applied Geophysics
by Parasnis, D. S
Springer, 2013. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$12.09
A Revolution in the Earth Sciences from Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics
by Hallam, A
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974 9, 127 pps. B/W line llustrations throughout. Owner's bookplate inside front cover and blind-embossed seal in the back. Text clean, tight and unmarked; Nea. Dark blue cloth-bound boards with metallic gold printing on spine show minor wear along top and bottom of spine;Light blue DJ with red title and graphics and white subtitles clean and bright with minor wear along top and bottom of spine. In protective mylar.. Reprint of 1973 Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6...
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A$14.22
New Zealand genera of Turritellidae, and the species of Stiracolpus by Marwick, J
by Marwick, J
New Zealand Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Res, 1957-01-01. Good. 1957 First edition, Geological Survey / R.E. Owen Geological Survey (Wellington, New Zealand), 8 3/8 x 10 15/16 inches tall stapled booklet in tan wraps with red cloth spine, 55pp., including five full-page plates with descriptive text on facing page. Minor soiling and edgewear to cover. Both lower tips of booklet are bumped, with resultant creasing to the bottom corner of leaves. Prior owner signature to top of front cover....
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A$39.42
Flora of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. 36, No. 5, Pp 171-382
by Hoffmann, Ralph
Boston: Boston Society of Natural History. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red 1/2 leather spine, gilt titles. Floral decorated boards. 2 small edge tears, else bright and unmarked.; 9 1/2" tall .
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A$118.51
The San Francisco Earthquake
by Thomas, Gordon & Morgan Witts, Max
New York: Stein and Day. Very Good/Good +. 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 081281360X Dust jacket creased small chips to top of spine. Original black paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Bright gilt to front and spine. Illustrated end papers. No end papers. Frontispiece. 316 pages clean and tight .
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A$15.73
The World's Oilfields: The Eastern Hemisphere (The Science of Petroleum: Volume VI, Part I)
by Illing, V.C. (editor)
Oxford University Press, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1953 first edition Oxford University Press (London), 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches tall blue cloth hardbound, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated (many folding maps and charts), viii, 174 pp. Covers rubbed, bumped, stained and slightly warped. Ex-oil company library book, with bar code sticker and stamps to front pastedown and free endpaper, embossed stamp to title page and card pocket to rear pastedown. Otherwise, apart from slight age toning, a very good...
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A$31.52
The World in the Past
by B Webster Smith
A concise account of some of the wonderful things that are recorded in the Great Stone Book of the Earth - the world was not always as it is today. The author takes the reader on an epoch journey through time from the beginning of the Earth to the Age of Man. 365 pages with 111 Plates with 30 in colour. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in good condition with some chips and knocks and some wear (see photo).
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A$35.00
Mobile Phosphorus in Lake Sediments, Sludge and Soil: a Catchment Perspective
by Rydin, Emil
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1999. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition, with slight wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no notable blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Unpaginated, approx. 100 pages; 30 pages of an essay by the author with 8 papers presented as backing for the essay. Section in main essay ""Results"" lists: Rain on sludge landfills; Potentially mobile phosphorus in soil mixed with sludge;...
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A$217.06
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
by Schapiro, Mark
White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing. Good in Good dust jacket. 2007. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very mild wear from handling - few marks within text. DJ improved with new, clear mylar cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 216 pages .
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A$15.47
Log Storage and Rafting in Public Waters: A Task Force Report
by Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Council
Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Council, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8" x 10-1/2" Wraps; 56pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Report by Task Force of the Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Council about log storage and rafting in public waters.
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A$55.30
