An Introduction to the Geology of Jordan
An Introduction to the Geology of Jordan

Author: Ikhlas Alhejoj

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-08-11

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1527528146

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Jordan can be considered to be an outdoor natural geological museum, exhibiting rocks of the Precambrian age up to the present Holocene time. Within its rocks are imprinted fossils, recrystallized minerals, geological structures, ancient human remains, and other geological features, which contribute to our understanding of global geology. This book offers simple, up-to-date findings, descriptions, and discussions with clear illustrations to help students and researchers comprehend the geology of Jordan. The book will also allow non-geologists to gain insight into Jordan’s geological set-up.

The Elements of Geology
The Elements of Geology

Author: William Harmon Norton

Publisher: Book Jungle

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781603031691

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William Harmon Norton was Professor of geology at Cornell University. Norton wrote this textbook wanting to develop the relationship between causes and their effects in a clear cut manner. Norton stresses the importance of the teacher using field study and observation along with the text. The book is divided into three sections. External geology concentrates on weather, glaciers, wind etc. Internal geology studies the earthżs crust, earthquakes, volcanoes etc. The final section, historical geology, covers carboniferous, Mesozoic, tertiary, etc.

Quaternary of the Levant
Quaternary of the Levant

Author: Yehouda Enzel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 789

ISBN-13: 1316841847

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Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings together over eighty contributions from leading researchers to review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution. Information from prehistoric sites and palaeoanthropological studies contributing to our understanding of 'out of Africa' migrations, Neanderthals, cultures of modern humans, and the origins of agriculture are assessed within the context of glacial-interglacial cycles, marine isotope cycles, plate tectonics, geochronology, geomorphology, palaeoecology and genetics. Complemented by overview summaries that draw together the findings of each chapter, the resulting coverage is wide-ranging and cohesive. The cross-disciplinary nature of the volume makes it an invaluable resource for academics and advanced students of Quaternary science and human prehistory, as well as being an important reference for archaeologists working in the region.

Loose-leaf Version for Essential Earth
Loose-leaf Version for Essential Earth

Author: Thomas H. Jordan

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2011-12-23

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1464110611

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The Essential Earth is a whole new way to open students’ eyes to the physical world around them, to learn how scientists explore it, and what we need to do to both protect ourselves from it (hazards) as well as protect it from us (global change). In just 14 chapters, it offers a well-focused introduction to the basics of geology that emphasize the process of science and how humans interact with our home, Spaceship Earth.

Atlas of Jordan
Atlas of Jordan

Author: Myriam Ababsa

Publisher: Presses de l’Ifpo

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 235159438X

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This atlas aims to provide the reader with key pointers for a spatial analysis of the social, economic and political dynamics at work in Jordan, an exemplary country of the Middle East complexities. Being a product of seven years of scientific cooperation between Ifpo, the Royal Jordanian Geographic Center and the University of Jordan, it includes the contributions of 48 European, Jordanian and International researchers. A long historical part followed by sections on demography, economy, social disparities, urban challenges and major town and country planning, sheds light on the formation of Jordanian territories over time. Jordan has always been looked on as an exception in the Middle East due to the political stability that has prevailed since the country’s Independence in 1946, despite the challenge of integrating several waves of Palestinian, Iraqi and - more recently - Syrian refugees. Thanks to this stability and the peace accord signed with Israel in 1994, Jordan is one of the first countries in the world for development aid per capita.

Iceland
Iceland

Author: Brennan T. Jordan

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 081370054X

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"This field trip was first run 3-14 July 2019 as a companion to the session "The Formation and Evolution of Iceland: Magmatic, Tectonic, and Geomorphological Processes" convened at the Geological Society of America 2019 Northeastern Section Meeting held in Portland, Maine, USA"--Preface

An Introduction to the Geology of Jordan
An Introduction to the Geology of Jordan

Author: Ikhlas Alhejoj

Publisher:

Published: 2023-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781527528130

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Jordan can be considered to be an outdoor natural geological museum, exhibiting rocks of the Precambrian age up to the present Holocene time. Within its rocks are imprinted fossils, recrystallized minerals, geological structures, ancient human remains, and other geological features, which contribute to our understanding of global geology. This book offers simple, up-to-date findings, descriptions, and discussions with clear illustrations to help students and researchers comprehend the geology of Jordan. The book will also allow non-geologists to gain insight into Jordan's geological set-up.

Applied Mining Geology
Applied Mining Geology

Author: Marat Abzalov

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-10

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 3319392646

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This book provides a detailed overview of the operational principles of modern mining geology, which are presented as a good mix of theory and practice, allowing use by a broad range of specialists, from students to lecturers and experienced geologists. The book includes comprehensive descriptions of mining geology techniques, including conventional methods and new approaches. The attributes presented in the book can be used as a reference and as a guide by mining industry specialists developing mining projects and for optimizing mining geology procedures. Applications of the methods are explained using case studies and are facilitated by the computer scripts added to the book as Electronic Supplementary Material.

Sedimentary Geology
Sedimentary Geology

Author: Donald R. Prothero

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2013-12-30

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 1464156565

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Written for a first course in sedimentary geology or sedimentary rocks and stratigraphy (with only an introductory geology/physical geology course as a prerequisite), Prothero and Schwab shows students how sedimentary strata serves geologists as a continuous record of Earths history. The authors conversational style, and focus on the important concepts make the book highly accessible to an undergraduate audience.

Fifty Years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics
Fifty Years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics

Author: R.W. Wilson

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2019-11-11

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1786203839

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Fifty years ago, Tuzo Wilson published his paper asking `Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?’. This led to the `Wilson Cycle’ concept in which the repeated opening and closing of ocean basins along old orogenic belts is a key process in the assembly and breakup of supercontinents. The Wilson Cycle underlies much of what we know about the geological evolution of the Earth and its lithosphere, and will no doubt continue to be developed as we gain more understanding of the physical processes that control mantle convection, plate tectonics, and as more data become available from currently less accessible regions. This volume includes both thematic and review papers covering various aspects of the Wilson Cycle concept. Thematic sections include: (1) the Classic Wilson v. Supercontinent Cycles, (2) Mantle Dynamics in the Wilson Cycle, (3) Tectonic Inheritance in the Lithosphere, (4) Revisiting Tuzo’s question on the Atlantic, (5) Opening and Closing of Oceans, and (6) Cratonic Basins and their place in the Wilson Cycle.