Mesozoic- Cenozoic Orogenic Belts

Mesozoic- Cenozoic Orogenic Belts

Autor: Colin John Campbell

Año: 1974

Contenido

General data on the segment

Data on individual structural zones

References 

Engineering and Design Slope Stability

Engineering and Design Slope Stability

Autor: Michael J. Walsh

Año: 31 octubre 2003

Contenido

Introduction

Design considerations

Design criteria

Calculations and presentations

Small format Aerial Photography

Small format  Aerial Photography

Autores: W.S.Warner, R.W. Graham, R.E Read

Año: 1996

ISBN: 1-57083-034-7

Ø  Part 1. MAPPING AND MEASURING

1.       Geometry of a single photograph

2.       Geometry of stereo photography

3.       Mapping and measuring from single photographs

4.       Stereoscopic mapping and measuring

5.       Practical considerations

6.       Survey techniques for small format photography

Ø  Part 2. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OPERATIONS

1.       Small format instruments and  photographic films

2.       Electronic (digital) imagery

3.       Camera platforms

4.       Camera mounts

5.       Mission planning

6.       Operational procedures

7.       Air survey navigation

Ø  Part 3. APPLICATIONS

1.       Multispectral  photography

2.       Urban survey

3.       Small format photogrammetric surveys

4.       Small format aerial photography for natural resources

5.       Small format aerial photography for the environment

6.       Large scale map revision from digital cameras

Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Autor: Robert L. Carroll

Año: 1978

Contenido

1.       Fossils and  relationship

2.       The origin of Vertebrates

3.       The diversity of Jawless Fish

4.       Primitive Jawed fish

5.       Sharks and other cartilaginous fish

6.       Acanthodians and primitive Bony Fish

7.       Advanced Bony fish: The Teleosts

8.       Sarcopterygian Fish

9.       The conquest of Land and the radiation of amphibians

10.   Primitive amniotes and turtles

11.   Primitive diapsids and lepidosaurs

12.   Mesozoic marine reptiles

13.   Primitive archosauromorphs and crocodiles

14.   The anatomy and relationship of dinosaurs

15.   The biology and extinction of dinosaurs

16.   Flight

17.   The origin of Mammmals

18.   Primitive Mesozoic Mammals and Monotresmes

19.   Primitive therian Mammals an Marsupials

20.   The Radiation of placental Mammals

21.   Ungulates, Edentates, and Whales

22.   Evolution

23.   Classification of vertebrates

Manual de ensayos geotécnicos del cuerpo de ingenieros de EE.UU

Autor:  J.P Jones, Jr

Año: septiembre 1986

Contenidos

1.       Identification in classification of soll rock

2.       Field exploration, testing and instrumentation

3.       Laboratory testing

4.       Distribution of stresses

5.       Analysis of supplement and volume expansion

6.       Seepage and drainage

7.       Slope stability and protetion

Rock Slope Engineering

Rock Slope Engineering

Autor: John Bray

Año: 1973-1977

Contenido

1.       Economic and planning considerations

2.       Basic mechanics of slope failure

3.       Graphicañ presentation of geological data

4.       Geological data collection

5.       Shear strength of rock

6.       Groundwater flow; permeability and pressure

7.       Plane failure

8.       Wedge  failure

9.       Circular failure

10.   Toppling failure

11.   Blasting

12.   Miscellaneous topics

USING GEOCHEMICAL DATA:

USING GEOCHEMICAL DATA:

EVALUATION, Presentation, Interpretation

Autor: Hugh R. Rollinson

ISBN: 0 582 06701 4

CONTENIDO

Ø  Geochemical Data

1.       Introduction

2.       Geological processes and their geochemical signature

3.       Geological controls on geochemical data

4.       Analytical methods in geochemistry

5.       Selecting an appropriate analytical technical technique

6.       Sources of error in geochemical analysis

7.       Analysing geochemical data

8.       Averages

9.       Correlation

10.   Regression

11.   Ratio correlation

12.   The constant sum problem

13.   The interpretation of trends on triangular diagrams

14.   Principal component analysis

15.   Discriminant analysis

16.   Using major element data

17.   Rock classification

18.   Variation diagrams

19.   Diagrams on which rock chemistry can be plotted together whit experimentally determined phase boundaries

20.   Using trace element data

21.   Controls on trace element distributiom

22.   Rare earth elements

23.   Normalized multi-element diagrams or incompatible element diagrams (diagrams)

24.   Platinum metal group element (PGE) plots

25.   Transition metal plots

26.   Bivariate trace element plots

27.   Enrichment-depletion diagrams

28.   Modeling trace element processes igneous rocks

29.   Discriminating between tectonic environments using geochemical data

30.   Discrimination diagrams for rocks of basaltic to andesitic composition

31.   Discrimination diagrams for rocks of granitic composition

32.   Discrimination diagrams for clastic sediments

33.   Tectonic controls on magmatic and sedimentary geochemistry

34.   Using radiogenic isotope data

35.   Radiogenic isotopes in geochronology

36.   Radiogenic isotopes in petrogenesis

37.   Using stable isotope data

38.   Using oxygen isotope

39.   Fingerprinting hydrothermal solutions using oxygen and hydrogen isotopes- water- rock interaction

40.   Using carbon isotopes

41.   Using sulphur isotopes