The book “Metasomatic Texture in Granites” is an atlas, in which the authors stress on the exposition of metasomatic textures and their formation mechanisms than other atlases both at home and abroad. In the book the metasomatism of various minerals, including albite, K-feldspar, muscovite, biotite, quartz, beryl, calcite, apatite, etc., is systematically discussed with clear, colored, microscopic pictures and explanations. <...>

This book is an educational monograph addressed to graduate students and others undertaking isotope effect research. The fundamental principles needed to understand isotope effects are presented in appropriate detail. While it is true that these principles in the beginning will be more familiar to students of physical chemistry, and some background in physical chemistry is strongly recommended, the text provides enough detail to make the book an asset to students in organic and biochemistry, and geochemistry. Isotope effects are widely employed in many fields of science because of their utility. The underlying scientific principles needed to apply isotope effects to problems in physical chemistry, in organic and biochemistry, and in geochemistry are all the same or similar. This accounts for widespread communication between scientists in very different disciplines who share a fundamental interest in isotope effects. Nowhere has this been better exemplified than at the Gordon Conference on Isotope Effects which has met regularly for more than 50 years and has just as regularly stimulated cooperative efforts. <...>

This book is based on the script of a lecture course in isotope geochemistry, which is given at the University of Strasbourg, France and at the Eidgen6ssische Tech nische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland by Peter Stille. It is intended to be read by geologists, hydrologists, geochemists and any researchers and students from the broad fieldof environmental science. Its purpose is to enable readers to venture safely into the often mirky realms of radiogenic isotope geochemistry' applied to sedimentary and aquatic systems. The authors have strived to construct the book in such a way that it can be read and understood by those readers, especially students, who have no background in geochemistry. 7 chapters.take the reader through the rock cycle from weathering on the continent to eventual deposition in the sea, looked at largely from the perspective of radiogenic isotope geochemistry. <...>

This book is mainly about the field geology of granites at all scales from that of a single outcrop to plutons and batholiths. All field geologists work initially at the scale of the outcrop, consequently most of the phenomena treated herein are those which are visible at outcrop scale. However, granites typically occur as plutons and batholiths, some of which are so large as to apparently defy any effort at systematic treatment. Having had the opportunity of mapping two very large and very different batholiths, namely the Coastal Batholith of Peru and the tin granites of Southeast Asia, I have found that it is possible to map large batholiths within a relatively short time, so that the geology of the batholith as a whole can be appreciated. Moreover batholiths are one of the most common modes of granite occurrence, so it makes sense to study them at their natural scale <...>

Seismic inversion methods in geophysics is a technique used to transform seismic reflection data into quantitative subsurface rock properties. It is methods to integrate seismic reflection data along with well log data to extract a variety of petrophysical parameters. Geophysicists regularly perform seismic surveys to collect subsurface geological information in the exploration project.

Crystallography, an interdisciplinary subject, plays an important role in a wide range of subjects of science and technology. Its rudimentary knowledge is essential for beginners in physics, chemistry, mathematics, molecular biology, geology, metallurgy, and particularly to materials science and mineralogy. Its relationship with physics can be understood in terms of the following examples:
1. All conservation laws in physics are essentially interrelated with symmetry operations.
2. Symmetry considerations allow us to establish Pauli’s exclusion principle.
3. Periodic potential of the lattice is responsible for the creation of allowed and forbidden energy bands. Accordingly, materials can be classified as conductor, semi-conductor and insulator depending on the amount of band gap.
4. Relationships between the magnitudes of measurable parameters give rise to the tensor components of different physical properties in crystals. This list can be elaborated further. <...>

The task of this book is to convey some basic and in-depth knowledge on the traditional and recent theory of gravity inversion and integration for applications in geodesy and geophysics. The subject fields, physical geodesy and geophysics including geodynamics with emphasis on gravity information, are briefly introduced. Also the recent history of physical geodesy and gravimetric geophysics is reviewed. It follows that satellite techniques are indispensable for global to regional studies. The basic but important concepts of a geodetic reference system, frame and datum are also defined with examples. The Geodetic Reference System 1980, a versatile tool in most applications of gravity data, is presented in some detail. <...>

The book MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences is designed to help undergraduate and postgraduate students, doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, and professionals find quick solutions for common data analysis problems in earth sciences. It provides a minimal amount of theoretical background and demonstrates the application of all described methods through the use of examples.

In the first chapter a birds’s eye view on how to use Python for scientific purposes is proposed. Then a chapter is devoted to visualization of small and large scientific data and modeling results. Examples range from retrieving and plotting time series of Geodetic data obtaining and visualizing large,open geophysical datasets.

This book is primarily intended for seismologists and technicians working with seismological instruments. Seismologists tend to take their data for granted, hoping that the black boxes of seismographs and processing software will take care of all the nasty problems, much like driving a car and not worrying too much of how it works. But cars stop or malfunction and so do seismographs. Thus a basic understanding of seismic instrumentation is essential, even for the seismologist who is never going to turn a knob on an instrument.