From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid
From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid

Author: Christian Koeberl

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0813725577

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"This volume pays tribute to the career and scientific accomplishments of Walter Alvarez with papers related to the many topics he has covered : tectonics of microplates, structural geology, paleomagnetics, Apennine sedimentary sequences, geoarchaeology and Roman volcanics, Big History, and the discovery of evidence for a large asteroidal impact event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (now Cretaceous-Paleogene) boundary site in Gubbio, Italy"--

Landslide Science and Practice
Landslide Science and Practice

Author: Claudio Margottini

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-08-18

Total Pages: 761

ISBN-13: 3642313191

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This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the sixth: 1. Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning, 2. Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring, 3. Spatial Analysis and Modelling, 4. Global Environmental Change, 5. Complex Environment, 6. Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation, 7. Social and Economic Impact and Policies.

250 Million Years of Earth History in Central Italy
250 Million Years of Earth History in Central Italy

Author: Christian Koeberl

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2019-11-04

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 0813725429

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"The Umbria-Marche Apennines are entirely made of marine sedimentary rocks, representing a continuous record of the geotectonic evolution of an epeiric sea from the Early Triassic to the Pleistocene. The book includes reviews and original research works accomplished with the support of the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco"--