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• Contents List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction: From Switzerland to the Indies Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner and Meike Knittel
• part 1: Naturalists' Methods 2 Between the Americas and Europe: Mapping Territories through Questionnaires, 16th-18th Centuries Simona Boscani Leoni
• 3 (Re-)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Vallisneri's Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) Francesco Luzzini
• 4 Flora Near and Far: Accumulating Knowledge on Plants in Eighteenth-Century Zurich Meike Knittel
• 5 The Secrets of Indians: Native Knowers in Enlightenment Natural Histories of the Southern Americas Stefanie Ganger
• part 2: Authorities' and Societies' Strategies 6 Change and Continuity: The Bureaucracy of Knowledge in South America Irina Podgorny
• 7 Questionnaires, Parish Registers and Prize Competitions: The Zurich Physical Society's Sources and Methods for Surveying the Territory Sarah Baumgartner
• 8 Social Anthropology avant la lettre: The Economic Enlightenment Perspective on Traditional Uses of Wetlands Martin Stuber
• part 3: Defining Territories 9 Divergent Perception: Deserts and Mountains in Transition to Modernity, seen through Alexander von Humboldt's Views of Nature Jon Mathieu
• 10 Alpine Landscapes of Health: The Swiss Whey Cure and Therapeutic Tourism between 1750 and 1870 Barbara Orland
• 11 Creation of "Scientific" Knowledge: The Asiatick Society and Exploration of the Himalaya, 1784-1850 Chetan Singh
• Index.
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The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories. Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Ganger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.
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This book focuses on the application of geospatial technologies to study the land use land cover (LULC) dynamics, agricultural water management, water resources assessment and modeling, and studies on natural disasters. LULC dynamics is one of the major research themes for studying global environmental change using remote sensing data. The section on LULC dynamics covers the multi-variate criteria for land use and land cover classification and change assessment in the mountainous regions. Further, LULC change detection of the Tons river basin and LULC dynamics at decadal frequency are studied to derive adaptation and mitigation strategies. Landscape-level forest disturbance modeling, together with conservation implications, is also included. The watershed management approach is necessary for comprehensive management of land and water resources of any region, where studies on multi-criteria analysis for rainwater harvesting planning and its impact on land use land cover transformations in rain-fed areas using geospatial technologies are presented in this book. The book will be useful for academics, water practitioners, scientists, water managers, environmentalists, and administrators, NGOs, researchers, and students who are actively involved in the application of geospatial technologies in LULC studies, agricultural water management and hydrological modelling and natural disasters for addressing the challenges being posed by climate change while addressing issues of food and water securities .
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This book carefully considers hydrological models which are essential for predicting floods, droughts, soil moisture estimation, land use change detection, geomorphology and water structures. The book highlights recent advances in the area of hydrological modelling in the Ganga Basin and other internationally important river basins. The impact of climate change on water resources is a global concern. Water resources in many countries are already stressed, and climate change along with burgeoning population, rising standard of living and increasing demand are adding to the stress. Furthermore, river basins are becoming less resilient to climatic vagaries. Fundamental to addressing these issues is hydrological modelling which is covered in this book. Integrated water resources management is vital to ensure water and food security. Integral to the management is groundwater and solute transport, and this book encompasses tools that will be useful to mitigate the adverse consequences of natural disasters.
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• Thaw : Northern Plain, Alaska, USA - Pleistocene
• Origins : Kanapoi, Kenya - Pliocene
• Deluge : Gargono, Italy - Miocene
• Homeland : Tinguiririca, Chile - Oligocene
• Cycles : Seymour Island, Antarctica - Eocene
• Rebirth : Hell Creek, Montana, USA - Paleocene
• Signals : Yixian, Liaoning, China - Cretaceous
• Foundation : Swabia, Germany - Jurassic
• Contingency : Madygen, Kyrgyzstan - Triassic
• Seasons : Moradi, Niger - Permian
• Fuel : Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA - Carboniferous
• Collaboration : Rhynie, Scotland, UK - Devonian
• Depths : Yaman-Kasy, Russia - Silurian
• Transformation : Soom, South Africa - Ordovician
• Consumers : Chengjiang, Yunnan, China - Cambrian
• Emergence : Ediacara Hills, Australia - Ediacaran

Mining the most recent paleontological advances, a paleobiologist recreates sixteen extinct worlds, rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama, showing up close the intricate relationships of these ancient worlds

"This primer provides petroleum engineers with the tools, techniques, and examples needed to successfully construct a model of a petroleum reservoir, allowing them to improve reserve estimations and make development decisions that will optimize the lifetime performance of the well"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface Introduction from the Editors Acknowledgements 1
• Effect of bed permeability on flow turbulence in gravel-bed stream
• Sai Rupesh and Dr.Ratul Das 2
• Study on Erosion and Undercut of Cohesive River Bank - An Experimental Approach
• Vikas Kumar Das, Susanta Chaudhuri and Koustuv Debnath 3
• Hydraulic design of reservoir in permeable pavement for mitigating urban storm water
• Sanjeev Kumar Suman and Rajnish 4
• Analytical expression for measurement of discharge using conical obstruction in a small rectangular channel
• Ankur Kapoor, Aniruddha Ghare and Avinash Vasudeo 5
• Efficient numerical algorithm for flow field around vertically submerged tandem and aligned circular cylinders
• Abhijit Rout, Soni Parth Kaushikbhai and Arindam Sarkar 6
• Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Boundary Shear Stress in Non-Prismatic Compound Channel, Laxmikant Das, Kishanjit Kumar Khatua and Bhabani Shankar Das 7
• Turbulence flow statistics downstream of grids with various mesh size
• Pankaj Raushan, Santosh Singh and Koustuv Debnath 8
• Surge analysis of Long piping
• S Ghule, P M Abdul Rahiman and K U Farande 9
• Review on hydraulics of meandering river
• Jyotirmoy Barman, Bimlesh Kumar and Jyotismita Taye 10
• Prediction of discharge coefficient for side rectangular weir using group method of data handling (gmdh)
• Ali Shariq, Ajmal Hussain and Mujib Ahmad Ansari 11
• Enhancement of energy disipation using combination of solid roller bucket and type ii stilling basin for ogee stepped spillway
• Prakash Nangare and Alka Kote 12
• Estimation of coefficient of discharge for side compound weir using gmdh technique Mujib Ahmad Ansari, Ajmal Hussain and Faisal Ahmed 13
• Flow distributions in compound channel with diverging floodplains
• Bhabani Shankar Das, Kamalini Devi, Jnana Ranjan Khuntia and Kishanjit Kumar Khatua 14
• Boundary shear stress distributions in compound channels having narrowing and enlarging floodplains
• Kamalini Devi, Bhabani Shankar Das, Jnana Ranjan Khuntia and Dr. Kishanjit Kumar Khatua 15
• Turbulence characteristics in a vegetated open channel under unsteady flow conditions
• Jnana Ranjan Khuntia, Kamalini Devi, Bhabani Shankar Das and Dr. Kishanjit Kumar Khatua 16
• Study of scour near pier of gandhi setu in ganga river
• Binit Kumar and Vivekanand Singh 17
• Optimization of hydraulic design of URI-II Dam spillway, Jammu and Kashmir
• V S Ramarao, M R Bhajantri and V V Bhosekar 18
• Modification of spillway SKI jump bucket subjected to higer tail water levels V S Ramarao, M R Bhajantri, V V Bhosekar and K T More 19
• Prediction of submerged vegetated flow in a channel using gmdh-type neural network approach, Nekita Boraah and Bimlesh Kumar 20
• Turbulence flow statistics over a train of k-type roughness
• Santosh Kumar Singh, Pankaj Kumar Raushan and Koustuv Debnath Conclusion .
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This book presents key principles of the hydraulics of river basins, with a unique focus on the interplay between stream flows and sediment transport. Addressing a number of basic topics related to the hydraulics of river systems, above all it emphasizes applicative aspects in order to provide the reader with a solid grasp of river engineering. The understanding of the river hydraulics is essential for the assessment of optimum locations for the conservation of water resources and its structures. This book will be interesting to readers and researchers working in the specialized area of river hydraulics of Ganga basin, Narmada, Tapi, Godavari, and other basins of India. It consists of review on hydraulics of meandering river; hydraulic design of reservoir in permeable pavement; optimization of hydraulic design; hydraulic investigations to optimize the design of spillway and design of energy dissipater; and analysis of performance of orifice spillway using computational fluid dynaics.
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• Prologue: The gate in the sky
• Introduction
• The fountain of fire
• The supervolcano
• The great ink well
• The vaults of glass
• The pale guardian
• The toppled god
• The inferno
• The giant's force
• Epilogue: The time traveler

Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon and can even tip entire planets over. Despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of our planet. Super Volcanoes revels in the incomparable power of volcanic eruptions past and present, Earth-bound and otherwise, it explores how these eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong. Science journalist and volcanologist Robin George Andrews describes the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life. Travelling from Hawaii, Tanzania, Yellowstone and the ocean floor to the moon, Venus and Mars, Andrews explores cutting-edge discoveries and lingering scientific mysteries surrounding these phenomenal forces of nature.
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• Preparation
• Area maps
• Point maps
• Line Maps
• Cartograms
• Graphs, charts, and plots
• Chartmaps
• 3D maps
• Curiosities.

"Using 101 maps, graphs, charts, and plots of the 2016 United States presidential election data, this book explores the rich diversity of thematic mapping and the visual representation of data. It details well-known techniques and shows you how to design effective maps and graphics. It also shows innovative and fascinating alternative ways of making maps of empirical data which you can use in your own work. Each example illustrates a different approach to visualising the same data, and all lead to different ways of seeing different shades of truth. Which will speak to your truth?"--Back cover.

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 41 presents the complete Abstracts of all contributions to the 29th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society in Hamburg (Germany) 2021: - Plenary Talks - Microsymposia - Poster Session Supplement Series of Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie publishes Abstracts of international conferences on the interdisciplinary field of crystallography.
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"China is home to more than a dozen volcanoes that have erupted during the Holocene. Recent activity, such as the eruption of Ashikule in 1951 and unrest of Changbaishan during 2002-05, highlights the potential for future volcanic unrest and eruptions in the country. In 1999, a National Volcano Monitoring Network was established, inaugurating a programme of research and surveillance to understand the history and activity of China's volcanoes. Much progress has been made since, advancing understanding in the areas of geology, geochemistry and geophysics, and supporting hazard mitigation planning. This publication reports the wide-ranging outcomes of this work to the international community." -- Back cover