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Origins Of Human Innovation And Creativity

by Scott A. Elias

185,50€ + 10% CARD

 Innovation and creativity are two of the key characteristics that distinguish cultural transmission from biological transmission. This book explores a number of questions concerning the nature and timing of the origins of human creativity. What were the driving factors in the development of new technologies? What caused the status in stone tool technological innovation in the Early Pleistocene? Were there specific regions and episodes of enhanced technological development, or did it occur at a steady pace where ancestral humans lived? The authors are archaeologists who address these questions, armed with data from ancient
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Advances In Quaternary Entomology

by Scott A. Elias

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 Addresses the science of fossil insects by demonstrating their contribution to our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental and climatological record of the past 2.6 million years. This survey also reviews the fossil insect record from Quaternary deposits throughout the world, and points to rewarding areas for future research.
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Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap, Iceland - Glacial Processes, Sediments And Landforms On An Active Volcano

178,88€ + 10% CARD

 Lowland glaciers are usually considered the best analogs for formerly glaciated areas and as such, many Icelandic glaciers have been intensively investigated with regard to process-orientated sediment-landform interrelationships. The Myrdalsjokull ice cap has, thus, served as an excellent "ice-age laboratory." Furthermore, a substantial effort has been directed toward understanding the interaction between volcanic activity and glacier response, such as meltwater outbursts (jokulhlaups) and sudden events of rapidly flowing glacier ice. The book reviews the following themes related to Myrdalsjokull: glaciology, glacial and quaternary geology, sedimentology, tephrochronology and eruption history of Katla, and crustal movements. All authors are involved in research about the subglacial Katla volcano and Myrdalsjokull. - Book covers all aspects of the ice cap and volcano dynamics- Comprehensive reviews with updated results- Editors and authors are well established scientists with research experience from Myrdalsjokull- Standard reference work for Myrdalsjokull
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Quaternary Glaciations - Extent And Chronology - Part I: Europe

by J. Ehlers e P.L. Gibbard

231,88€ + 10% CARD

 This book is the first of three volumes in which the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations has been compiled on a global scale. This information is seen as a fundamental requirement, not only for the glacial workers, but for the wider user-community of general Quaternary workers. In particular the need for accurate ice-front positions is a basic requirement for the rapidly growing field of palaeoclimate modelling. In order to provide the information for the widest-possible range of users in the most accessible form, a series of digital maps was prepared.The glacial limits were mapped in ArcView, the Geographical Information System (GIS) used by the work group. Digital maps, showing glacial limits, end moraines, ice-dammed lakes, glacier-induced drainage diversions and the locations of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined and dated are included. For major parts of Europe also the extent of the maximum Eemian transgression has been indicated. The digital maps in this volume cover all of Europe and parts of northwestern Siberia. Both overview maps and more detailed maps are provided.
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Iceland - Modern Processes And Past Environments

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 Iceland provides an unique stage on which to study the natural environment. This volume provides an overview of a range of topics for which Iceland provides a laboratory emphasizing the importance of research on this small island for studies over a much broader global scale.
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Glaciotectonism

by Andrzej Ber e James S. Aber

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 Glaciotectonism is an important component of modern glacial theory. This book uses maps of glaciotectonic structures and landforms (for North America and central Europe) for a better understanding of the role of glaciotectonism as a key component of glacial theory. It provides a comprehensive review and description of glaciotectonic phenomena.
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Spitsbergen Push Moraines - Including A Translation Of K. Gripp: Glaciologische Und Geologische Ergebnisse Der Hamburgischen Spitzbergen-Expedition 1927

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 Deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen. Push moraines are ridges or mounds of stratified glacial drift that are generated by glacial movement. Spitsbergen is an island in the Norwegian Sea, approximately 350 miles north of mainland Norway near the Norht Pole.
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Ice Age Southern Andes - A Chronicle Of Palaeoecological Events

by C.J. Heusser

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 The Southern Andes, stretching from the subtropics to the subantarctic, are ideally located for palaeoenvironmental research. Over the broad and continuous latitudinal extent of the cordillera (-24), vegetation is adjusted to climatic gradients and atmospheric circulation patterns.Opposed to the prevailing Southern Westerlies, the Southern Andes are positioned to receive the brunt of the winds, while biota are set to record the shifting of incoming storm systems over time. Sequential, latitudinally-placed, sedimentary deposits containing microfossils and macroremains, as archives of past vegetation and climate, make possible the detection of equatorward and poleward displacement of plant communities and, as a consequence, changes in climatic controls. No terrestrial setting in the Southern Hemisphere is so unique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction during and since the last ice age. Twenty radiocarbon-dated fossil pollen and spore records chosen to place emphasis on the last ice age include high-resolution, submillennial data sets that also cover the Holocene, thus providing contrast between present interglacial and past glacial ages. From a refined data base, the records constitute the foundation for interpreting factors responsible for vegetation change over >50,000 14C years, glacial-interglacial migration and refugial patterns for a diversity of taxa, and the extent of intrahemispheric and polar hemispheric synchroneity versus asynchroneity.
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Quaternary Glaciations - Extent And Chronology - Part Iii: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

by J. Ehlers e P.L. Gibbard

238,50€ + 10% CARD

 This book is the last of three volumes in which the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations has been compiled on a global scale. This information is seen as a fundamental requirement, not only for the glacial community, but for the wider user-community of general Quaternary workers. In particular the need for accurate ice-front positions is a basic requirement for the rapidly growing field of palaeoclimate modelling. In order to provide the information for the widest-possible range of users in the most accessible form, a series of digital maps was prepared.The glacial limits were mapped in ArcView, the Geographical Information System (GIS) used by the work group. Included with the publication is a CD with digital maps, showing glacial limits, end moraines, ice-dammed lakes, glacier-induced drainage diversions and the locations of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined and dated. Where controversial interpretations are possible, such as for High Asia, they are indicated. All information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide is presented for the first time in a uniform format, including the mountain glaciations of regions such as Costa Rica, Ethiopia or Taiwan. The digital maps in this volume cover Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Antarctica. Both overview maps and more detailed maps at a scale 1: 1,000,000 are provided.Also available: Part I: Europe, ISBN 0-444-51462-7 Part II: North America, ISBN 0-444-51592-5
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Climate Of Past Interglacials

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 Helps you learn about the climate-environment system, its sensitivity, thresholds and feedback. This book presents the science on reconstructions from the Earth System, on methodological advances and on the ability of numerical models to simulate low and high frequency changes of climate, environment, and chemical cycling related to interglacials.
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Juneau Icefield Research Project (1949-1958)

by Cal Heusser

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 The Juneau Icefield Research Project (JIRP) was formed to find a prototype area to study Alaska's coastal glaciers and trends in climatic change. For the past 57 years JIRP has conducted a systematic study of key receding and advancing glaciers, including Lemon Creek and Taku Glaciers. From this study, a model has been developed to study the mass balance of these glaciers and their relation to general atmospheric circulation. Taku's mass balance was expected to provide a meaningful assessment of flakier climate relations and environmental trends, specifically the increase in atmospheric trace element pollution and global warming.Juneau Icefield Research Project (1949-1958) is represented by 15 chapters, organized in four parts: Background of the Project, Early Years of the Project (1949-1952, Later Years of the Project (1953-1958), and Summation and Epilogue. After describing the Project's background, Chapters 3 through 12 cover year-by-year activities, personnel, logistics, and research of the Taku and Lemon Creek Glaciers. These chapters included day-to-day journal entries that represent a record of the informal itineraries covering the course of the study. Chapters 13 and 14 summarize glaciological findings on Taku Glacier and the status of hydrological budgets on Lemon Creek Glacier through the International Geophysical year (1957-19658). The final chapter of the text is an overview of paleoecological work by the Project in North Pacific America brought into the context of modern research with the recognition of glacier-climate cycles.* Documents the study Juneau Icefield Research Project on a year-by-year account covering activities, personnel, logistics and research * Discusses the model developed from the JIRP and explains its importance in predicting future climate changes* Presents the information with day-to-day journal entries, making the text attractive and easy to read
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Quaternary Glaciations - Extent And Chronology - Part Ii: North America

by J. Ehlers e P.L. Gibbard

231,88€ + 10% CARD

 Second of three volumes, this volume compiles the knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations on a global scale. It also includes a CD with digital maps, showing glacial limits, end moraines, ice-dammed lakes, glacier-induced drainage diversions and the locations of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined.
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Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics - Transport And Rate Processes In Physical, Chemical And Biological Systems

by Vincent (Laboratoire De Genie Chimique, Umr 5503 Inpt/Cnrs/Ups, Toulouse, France) Gerbaud

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Reading The Soil Archives - Unraveling The Geoecological Code Of Palaeosols And Sediment Cores

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Fuel Cells - Current Technology Challenges And Future Research Needs

by Noriko Hiko Behling

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 Current Technology Challenges and Future Research Needs. This book is a one of a kind, definitive reference source for technical students and researchers, government policymakers, and business leaders. It provides an overview of past and present initiatives to improve and commercialize fuel cell technologies. It provides context and analysis to help potential investors assess current fuel cell commercialization activities and future prospects. Most important, it gives top executive policymakers and company presidents with detailed policy recommendations as to what should be done to successfully commercialize fuel cell technologies.
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Ostracoda As Proxies For Quaternary Climate Change

by David Horne, Finn Viehberg, Jonathan Holmes e Julio Rodriguez-Lazaro

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 Paleoclimatology is the study of past climates. This title constitutes a durable benchmark in the science of Ostracoda and Quaternary climate change. It presents in-depth and focused treatment of palaeoclimate applications.
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Origins Of Human Innovation And Creativity

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 What were the driving factors in the development of new technologies? What caused the stasis in stone tool technological innovation in the Early Pleistocene? Were there specific regions and episodes of enhanced technological development, or did it occur at a steady pace where ancestral humans lived? This title addresses these questions.
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Iceland - Modern Processes And Past Environments - MODERN PROCESSES AND PAST ENVIRONMENTS

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 Offers a wide overview of a range of topics for which Iceland provides an almost unparalleled laboratory. This volume focuses on the Quaternary timescale. It explores topics such as subglacial volcanism, onshore and offshore evidence for the Last Glacial Maximum and subsequent deglaciation.

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