Habitability of Other Planets and Satellites

Habitability of Other Planets and Satellites
Author: Jean-Pierre de Vera
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400765460

Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life? Are we able to detect life elsewhere in the universe by the existing techniques and by the upcoming space missions? This book tries to give answers by focusing on environmental properties, which are playing a major role in influencing planetary surfaces or the interior of planets and satellites. The book gives insights into the nature of planets or satellites and their potential to harbor life. Different scientific disciplines are searching for the clues to classify planetary bodies as a habitable object and what kind of instruments and what kind of space exploration missions are necessary to detect life. Results from model calculations, field studies and from laboratory studies in planetary simulation facilities will help to elucidate if some of the planets and satellites in our solar system as well as in extra-solar systems are potentially habitable for life.

Relief of Certain Settlers

Relief of Certain Settlers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1914
Genre: Railroad land grants
ISBN:

Ehrlich's Geomicrobiology

Ehrlich's Geomicrobiology
Author: Henry Lutz Ehrlich
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2015-10-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1466592419

Advances in geomicrobiology have progressed at an accelerated pace in recent years. Ehrlich's Geomicrobiology, Sixth Edition surveys various aspects of the field, including the microbial role in elemental cycling and in the formation and degradation of minerals and fossil fuels. Unlike the fifth edition, the sixth includes many expert contributors

Textbook of Shoulder Surgery

Textbook of Shoulder Surgery
Author: Ian A. Trail
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319700995

This textbook provides the most up-to-date information on shoulder surgery along with practical approaches for patient evaluation and treatments options. The book is divided into key sections, providing coverage on Soft Tissue Disorders of the Shoulder, Arthritis of the Shoulder, The Paediatric Shoulder and other miscellaneous topics relevant to treating this area. Its strong clinical focus will help residents and medical students to manage patients in a practical way, based on the most recent scientific evidence and the most effective surgical and non-surgical techniques. Thus, it will become a valuable reference and resource for young doctors and students looking to increase their professional skills and knowledge when treating shoulder injuries and disorders in clinical practice.

Applied Geothermics

Applied Geothermics
Author: Lev Eppelbaum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Total Pages: 757
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642340237

This book describes origin and characteristics of the Earth’s thermal field, thermal flow propagation and some thermal phenomena in the Earth. Description of thermal properties of rocks and methods of thermal field measurements in boreholes, underground, at near-surface conditions enables to understand the principles of temperature field acquisition and geothermal model development. Processing and interpretation of geothermal data are shown on numerous field examples from different regions of the world. The book warps, for instance, such fields as analysis of thermal regime of the Earth’s crust, evolution and thermodynamic conditions of the magma-ocean and early Earth atmosphere, thermal properties of permafrost, thermal waters, geysers and mud volcanoes, methods of Curie discontinuity construction, quantitative interpretation of thermal anomalies, examination of some nonlinear effects, and integration of geothermal data with other geophysical methods. This book is intended for students and researchers in the field of Earth Sciences and Environment studying thermal processes in the Earth and in the subsurface. It will be useful for specialists applying thermal field analysis in petroleum, water and ore geophysics, environmental and ecological studies, archaeological prospection and climate of the past.

They Say in Harlan County

They Say in Harlan County
Author: Alessandro Portelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199934851

This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.