Tag: Geophysics

Free Download Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1394179243 | 615 Pages | PDF, EPUB (True) | 330 MB
Borehole geophysics involves measuring, imaging, and monitoring subsurface structures and activities by putting instruments into wellbores. Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology is emerging as an effective and reliable tool in borehole geophysics because fiber-optic cables deployed at depth can produce high-quality data and images, even in harsh high-temperature and high-pressure environments.

Free Download The State of the Planet: Frontiers and Challenges in Geophysics By
2004 | 407 Pages | ISBN: 0875904157 | PDF | 80 MB
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series.Perhaps the most pressing scientific challenge before us concerns our understanding of the Earth and environmental change, which is occurring at a dramatic rate. Humanity can expect serious difficulties on the road ahead as a result, even to the point of threatening civilized progress itself. There is thus an urgent need to understand the state of the planet, to anticipate the effects and consequences of environmental change, and if necessary take preventive action.Our understanding of change and its consequences can only advance, however, if we understand the Earth system well. Geophysics (sensu lato), one of the critical disciplines in the emerging interdisciplinary Earth System Science, forms the basis of the present book?which moves from the deepest parts of the Earth to surface environments, to a final discussion on the interface between science and society. While depicting the frontiers in each of their fields and focusing on present challenges, our contributing authors have also written for wide readership, specialists and non-specialists alike.Content:

Free Download Stephen T. Dye, "Neutrino Geophysics"
English | 2007 | pages: 366 | ISBN: 0387707662, 149395069X | PDF | 5,9 mb
These pages present a collection of recent papers primarily documenting the nascent science of neutrino geophysics. Most of the papers followed from talks given at Neutrino Sciences 2005: Neutrino Geophysics held at the University of Hawaii in December 2005. Several papers were solicited later in an effort to make the collection as comprehensive as possible. Every paper was scrutinized by an external reviewer to assure the quality of scientific content.

Free Download World Archaeo-Geophysics: Integrated minimally invasive approaches using country-based examples by Carmen Cuenca-Garcia, Andrei Asăndulesei, Kelsey M. Lowe
English | EPUB (True) | 2024 | 482 Pages | ISBN : 3031578996 | 167.4 MB
This volume showcases the intersection of geophysics and archaeology on a global scale, emphasising the evolution and application of geophysical methods in archaeological research and cultural heritage management. It compiles contributions from 74 experts based in 18 countries, with their research and case studies spanning across 24 different countries, focusing on the use of near-surface geophysical techniques and their integration with soil analyses and other methods to enrich archaeological interpretations. Prepared under the auspices of the collaborative network fostered by COST Action SAGA – CA17131, this work navigates through the successes and challenges encountered in the widespread adoption of archaeo-geophysical methods across diverse geographic and cultural landscapes. It offers a comprehensive chronicle of the genesis, maturation, and cutting-edge advancements in geophysical techniques, advocating for their amplified integration within the archaeological community. Incorporating an array of case studies and critical discussions on methodological and interpretive questions, the book underscores the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration, and defines perspectives for innovation and growth within the field. As an open-access work, ‘WORLD ARCHAEO-GEOPHYSICS’ aims to contribute to the democratisation of knowledge, fostering shared learning and cooperative engagement among professionals, academics, students and archaeology enthusiasts alike. Funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and supported by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), this volume stands as a legacy of the resilient spirit of collaboration that defined the COST Action SAGA community, even in the face of pandemic challenges. It invites the academic and professional community to engage in new explorations and advancements, positioning itself as a reference for current and future endeavors in archaeo-geophysics.

Free Download Introduction to Geophysics: Global Physical Fields and Processes in the Earth
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031178661 | 403 Pages | PDF (True) | 111 MB
This textbook on geophysics is a translated and revised editon from its third German edition Einführung in die Geophysik – Globale physikalische Felder und Prozesse in der Erde.Explaining the technical terminology, it introduces students and the interested scientific public to the physics of the Earth at an intermediate level. In doing so, it goes far beyond a purely phenomenological description, but systematically explains the physical principles of the processes and fields which affect the entire Earth: Its position in space; its internal structure; its age and that of its rocks; earthquakes and how they are used in exploring Earth’s structure; its shape, tides, and isostatic equilibrium; Earth’s magnetic field, the geodynamo that generates it, and the interaction between the Earth’s magnetosphere and the solar wind’s plasma flow; the Earth’s temperature field and heat transport processes in the core, mantle, and crust of the Earth and their role indriving the geodynamo and plate tectonics.

Free Download Kathryn Yusoff, "Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race"
English | ISBN: 1478030305 | 2024 | 608 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices. Throughout, she outlines how the disciplines of geology and geography–and their conventions: surveying, identifying, classifying, valuing, and extracting-established and perpetuated colonial practices that ordered the world and people along a racial axis. Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. At the same time, Yusoff turns to Caribbean, Indigenous, and Black thought to chart a parallel geologic epistemology of the "earth-bound" that challenges what and who the humanities have chosen to overlook in its stories of the earth. By reconsidering the material epistemologies of the earth as an on-going geotrauma in colonial afterlives, Yusoff demonstrates that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one.

Free Download Avalanches in Functional Materials and Geophysics by Ekhard K.H. Salje, Avadh Saxena, Antoni Planes
English | PDF (True) | 2017 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 3319456105 | 19.4 MB
This book provides the state-of-the art of the present understanding of avalanche phenomena in both functional materials and geophysics. The main emphasis of the book is analyzing these apparently different problems within the common perspective of out-of-equilibrium phenomena displaying spatial and temporal complexity that occur in a broad range of scales. Many systems, when subjected to an external force, respond intermittently in the form of avalanches that often span over a wide range of sizes, energies and durations. This is often related to a class of critical behavior characterized by the absence of characteristic scales. Typical examples are magnetization processes, plastic deformation and failure occuring in functional materials. These phenomena share many similarities with seismicity arising from the earth crust failure due to stresses that originate from plate tectonics.

Free Download Groundwater Geophysics: A Tool for Hydrogeology (2nd Edition) by Reinhard Kirsch
English | 2009 | ISBN: 3540884041 | 548 Pages | PDF | 38.2 MB
Edited by Reinhard Kirsch, this book demonstrates the use of geophysics for the detection and delineation of groundwater resources.

Free Download Jason Randall Thompson, "Anthropological Research Framing for Archaeological Geophysics: Material Signatures of Past Human Behavior"
English | ISBN: 0739177583 | 2015 | 152 pages | EPUB | 2 MB