Maaperä, ilmasto ja vesistö
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101 Amazing Facts about Volcanoes
Goldstein, JackAndrews UK 2014 1. painosDid you know that animals can often sense when a volcano is going to erupt? Or that the force of an eruption is measured on the VEI, or Volcanic Explosivity Index? What is the diff...
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66 ways to absorb carbon and improve the earth's reflectivity : from reasonable options to mad scientist solutions
Isomäki, RistoInto 2011 [Updated ed.]The melting of Greenland, West Antarctic ice sheets, Arctic sea ice and Siberian permafrost has caused a rapid shift in international climate debate. A growing number of leading sc...
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Demystifying Climate Models
Gettelman, Andrew; Rood, Richard B.Springer 2016 1. painosTable of contentsPart I. Basic Principles and the Problem of Climate Forecasts1. Key Concepts in Climate ModelingAndrew Gettelman, Richard B. Rood2. Components of the Climate Syste...
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Fossils at a Glance
Milsom, Clare; Rigby, SueJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2009 1. painosLife on Earth has been evolving and interacting with the surface and atmosphere for almost four billion years. Fossils provide a powerful tool in the study of the Earth and its his...
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Marine geochemistry
Chester, Roy.; Jickells, TimWiley 2012 3rd ed.Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strong c...
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On Mount Hood : A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak
Bell, JonSasquatch Books 2011On Mount Hood is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and pl...
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Quaternary environmental change in the tropics
Metcalfe, Sarah E.; Nash, David JWiley 2012The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropi...
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Wetland environments a global perspective
Aber, James Sandusky.; Pavri, Firoosa.; Aber, Susan WardWiley 2012Wetlands - swamp, marsh, bayou, tundra and bog - are places that are rarely visited and often misunderstood but they have, in fact, conspicuous roles in the physical, biological an...