Geology and Mining
There are 731 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $10.95 Trade Paper List Price $16.00 
add to wish list |
|
Roadside Geology of Oregon (Roadside Geology)
by David Alt  Publisher Comments "[It] provides a handy and understandable account, either to read at home, or to carry along on trips."-Oregon Historical...
|
||||||
New: $12.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Gold! Gold! a Beginners Handbook and Recreational Guide
by J. F. Petralia Publisher Comments An unusually attractive handbook that introduces would-be gold prospecting hobbyists to a bit of gold fever history, basic information on types of deposits, and guidelines on looking for gold in stream bed's and in quartz veins. The author writes...
|
||||||
New: $45.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Dynamic Structure of the Deep Earth: An Interdisciplinary Approach
by Shun'ichiro Karato Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index....
|
||||||
New: $89.95 Hardcvr W/comp Media
add to wish list |
|
3 D Structural Geology a Practical G 2ND Edition
by Richard H. Groshong Synopsis This is a handbook of practical techniques for making the best possible interpretation of geological structures at the map scale and for extracting the maximum amount of information from surface and subsurface maps. The 3-D structure is defined by...
|
||||||
Used: $80.00 Hardcover List Price $119.25
add to wish list |
|
Geology in the Field (85 Edition)
by Robert R. Compton Publisher Comments Replaces Compton's "Manual of Field Geology" (1962). A guide to advances in the increasingly broad and interpretive discipline of formation mapping theory. Thorough, yet compact enough for use in the field, it consists of brief descriptions of textures...
|
||||||
New: $14.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Jewels: A Secret History
by Victoria Finlay Publisher Comments Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind...
|
||||||
Sale: $10.98 Hardcover List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917
by Michael Punke Publisher Comments Recounting the remarkable stories of the men below ground and their families above, this volume focuses on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas during what's known as the North Butte Mine Disaster...
|
||||||
New: $109.75 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Exploration Seismology
by R. Sheriff Publisher Comments This completely updated revision of a highly regarded book is designed to give a comprehensive up-to-date picture of seismology as it is applied to petroleum and mineral exploration, ground water and environmental applications, and engineering. The first...
|
||||||
New: $25.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
by Keith Heyer Meldahl Publisher Comments In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor...
|
||||||
New: $64.75 Hardcover List Price $69.00
add to wish list |
|
Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production: A Nontechnical Guide
by William L. Leffler Publisher Comments Provides coverage of all aspects of deepwater operations, including historic background; drilling and completing wells; development systems; fixed structures; floating production systems; subsea systems; topsides; and pipelines, flowlines, and risers....
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Fossil Legends of the First Americans
by Adrienne Mayor Publisher Comments The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the...
|
||||||
New: $114.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
by Haraldur Sigurdsson and Bruce Houghton and Stephen R. McNutt and Hazel Rymer and John Stix 
Publisher Comments Volcanoes are unquestionably one of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring features of the physical world. Our paradoxical fascination with them stems from their majestic beauty and powerful, if sometimes deadly, destructiveness. Notwithstanding the...
|
||||||
Used: $44.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Igneous Rocks: A Classification and Glossary of Terms
by R. W. Le Maitre Publisher Comments Decades of field and microscope studies, and more recent quantitative geochemical analyses have resulted in a vast, and sometimes overwhelming, array of nomenclature and terminology associated with igneous rocks. This book presents a complete...
|
||||||
New: $29.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
by Ted Nield Publisher Comments This book explores the Supercontinent Cycle from scientists' earliest inkling of the phenomenon to the geological discoveries of today--and from the most recent fusing of all of Earth's landmasses, Pangaea, on which dinosaurs evolved, to the next....
|
||||||
New: $65.25 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Computer Simulation of Shaped Charge Problems
by Wen Ho Lee Publisher Comments Devoted to the subject of shape charge design using numerical methods, this book offers the defense and commercial industries unique material not contained in any other single volume. The coverage of the Lagrangian and Eulerian methods as well as the...
|
||||||
New: $53.50 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines
by National Research Co Publisher Comments Enforceable federal standards are needed for the disposal of CCRs in minefills to ensure that states have adequate, explicit authority and that they implement minimum safeguards....
|
||||||
New: $39.50 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes
by Simon Lamb Publisher Comments Lamb tells of how he and a team of geologists spent much of the last decade exploring the Bolivian Andes--a region rocked by earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions--to figure out how high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth....
|
||||||
Used: $48.00 Trade Paper List Price $70.00
add to wish list |
|
Solid Earth an Introduction To Global Geoph 2ND Edition
by C M R Fowler Publisher Comments Geophysics is a broad subject that encompasses not only the physics of the Earth, but also the physics of the atmosphere and oceans. The heart of geophysics, however, is the theory of the solid Earth. The Solid Earth is a general introduction to the...
|
||||||
New: $128.00 Hardcover List Price $160.00
add to wish list |
|
Fractured Reservoirs.
by L. Lonergan Et Al Book News Annotation Despite their relatively low recovery rates, increased demand has made fractured oil reservoirs in the Middle East, North and South America and North Africa attractive. However, yields can improve, given that certain geophysical characteristics that...
|
||||||
New: $317.25 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Pyrite Oxidation and Its Control Ences
by V. P. Evangelou Publisher Comments Pyrite Oxidation and its Control is the single available text on the market that presents the latest findings on pyrite oxidation and acid mine drainage (AMD). This new information is an indispensable reference for generating new concepts and...
|
||||||
