• Prologue : dolphin lessons
• In the beginning : humpback whales
• Searching for giants : blue whales
• Family : orcas
• In deep water : beaked whales and false killer whales
• The desert whales : gray whales.

"This nonfiction book about whales in the Pacific Ocean is written by Leigh Calvez. Calvez has worked with whales and dolphins as a scientist, naturalist, and nature writer. As a scientist, she was Research Director for the Ocean Mammal Institute on such projects as the effect of vessel traffic on endangered humpback whales off Maui, Hawaii. She also led the only independent research team observing the US Navy's testing of Low Frequency Active Sonar on humpback whales in their nurseries in Hawaii in 1998" -- Provided by publisher.

• Decarbonization: Climate won't wait ; What Sweden did ; What Germany did
• Half measures: More energy, not less ;
• 100 percent renewables? ; Methane is still fossil
• Facing fears: Safest energy ever ; Risks and fears ; Handling waste ; Preventing proliferation
• The way forward: Keep what we've got ; Next-generation technology ; China, Russia, India ; Pricing carbon pollution ; Act globally.

As climate change begins to take a serious toll on the planet--with much more damage yet to come--a solution to our warming problems is hiding in plain sight. We need to commit to de-carbonizing our economy, and do so immediately, but so far we have lacked the courage to really try. Our fears of nuclear energy have grown irrationally large, even as our fears of climate change are irrationally small. In this clear-sighted and compelling book, Joshua Goldstein and Steffan Qvist come bearing good news: a real solution, one that is fast, cheap, and provably works. Based on Sweden's success cutting their carbon emissions in half, Goldstein and Qvist argue for a policy that combines nuclear and renewable energy sources. From 1970-1990, Sweden replaced coal power plants with nuclear ones, and slowly integrated renewable energy alongside it. During that same time period, the country generated more electricity than ever and its economy grew by 50 percent. They have had no nuclear accidents, nor has any of their uranium been stolen by terrorists. Separating facts from doomsday scenarios, Goldstein and Qvist force a real and meaningful dialogue about what the best energy policy is, and the dangers of remaining on our present path. And they offer an answer that really could work--if only we'd give it a try.
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• Introducing the ideal of cartography
• Seeing, and seeing past, the ideal
• Cartography's idealized preconceptions
• The ideal of cartography emerges
• Map scale and cartography's idealized geometry
• Not cartography, but mapping.

Exploring environmental changes through Earth's geological history using chemostratigraphy Chemostratigraphy is the study of the chemical characteristics of different rock layers. Decoding this geochemical record across chronostratigraphic boundaries can provide insights into geological history, past climates, and sedimentary processes. Chemostratigraphy Across Major Chronological Boundaries presents state-of-the-art applications of chemostratigraphic methods and demonstrates how chemical signatures can decipher past environmental conditions. Volume highlights include: Presents a global perspective on chronostratigraphic boundaries Describes how different proxies can reveal distinct elemental and isotopic events in the geologic past Examines the Archaean-Paleoproterozoic, Proterozoic-Paleozoic, Paleozoic-Mesozoic, and Mesozoic-Paleogene boundaries Explores cause-and-effect through major, trace, PGE, and REE elemental, stable, and radiogenic isotopes Offers solutions to persistent chemostratigraphic problems on a micro-global scale Geared toward academic and researchgeoscientists, particularly in the fields of sedimentary petrology, stratigraphy, isotope geology, geochemistry, petroleum geology, atmospheric science, oceanography, climate change and environmental science, Chemostratigraphy Across Major Chronological Boundaries offers invaluable insights into environmental evolution and climatic change.
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• 1 Introduction: Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions and an Inter-American Perspective
• 1.1 Significance of the Changing Polar Regions and of Polar Politics
• 1.2 Terminology
• 1.3 Structure of the Book
• 2 Investigating the Politics of the Polar Regions: Research Gaps and a New Perspective
• 2.1 The Polar Regions in Political Science Literature
• 2.2 A New Perspective: Entangled Actors and Discourses in the Politics of the Polar Regions
• 2.3 Identifying (Dis)Entangled Actors and Discourses
• 3 Practical Geopolitics: Representing the Changing Polar Regions in Regional and Domestic Politics
• 3.1 Regional Polities: Institutional Settings and Frameworks
• 3.2 Geopolitical Reasoning in Regional Politics of the Polar Regions
• 3.3 Geopolitical Reasoning in the Domestic Politics of the Polar Regions
• 4 Popular Geopolitics: The Changing Polar Regions in Newspaper Reporting
• 4.1 Newspaper Reporting in Argentina, Chile, Canada and the United States
• 4.2 Themes Mainly Addressed in Newspapers
• 4.3 Geopolitical Reasoning: The Representation of the Changing Polar Regions and Their Politics in Newspapers
• 5 Formal Geopolitics: The Changing Polar Regions in Assessments by Non-Governmental Theorists and Strategists
• 5.1 Non-Governmental Theorists and Strategists in the Politics of the Polar Regions
• 5.2 Geopolitical Reasoning: The Representation of the Changing Polar Regions and Their Politics by Non-Governmental Theorists and Strategists
• 6 Conclusions: Entangled/Disentangled Actors and Discourses in the Politics of the Polar Regions
• 6.1 Changing Political Influence? State and Non-State Actors in the Politics of the Polar Regions
• 6.2 Entangled Geopolitical Discourses in the Politics of the Polar Regions?
• 6.3 From Changing Polar Regions Towards a New Inter-American Political Space?
• 6.4 Further Prospects and Research.
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Focusing on both Polar Regions, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of political processes related to the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic, where the environmental impacts of human activities are extremely visible. Environmental changes in the Arctic and the Antarctic are increasingly seen as barometers of the global impact of human activities, while newly arising economic opportunities in both Polar Regions prompt predictions that they will be the site of future conflicts. This book maps and analyses the different actors involved in the politics of the Polar Regions to explain why similar patterns of interpretation of such major issues have become dominant in practical, popular and formal geopolitical discourses. Disentangling the politics, the author illustrates how the ordering principles have evolved, explains recent dynamics in political processes and provides the groundwork needed to better forecast future trends. By focusing on the Americas, the only continent that borders both Polar Regions, the author shows how geographic proximity inspires interaction and cooperation among state and non-state actors in very different ways. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, political geography, international relations, global governance and cultural studies. It will have an international appeal particularly in the Americas, and other countries with growing interests in the Polar Regions.
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• List of contributors vii Acknowledgements x Sedimentology of meandering river deposits: advances and challenges
• 1 Massimiliano Ghinassi, Luca Colombera, Nigel P. Mountney and Arnold Jan H. Reesink Controls on the depositional architecture of fluvial point-bar elements in a coastal-plain succession
• 15 Michelle N. Shiers, Nigel P. Mountney, David M. Hodgson and Luca Colombera Toggling between expansion and translation: The generation of a muddy-normal point bar with an earthquake imprint
• 47 Shelby Johnston and John Holbrook Planform sinuosity of Proterozoic rivers: A craton to channel-reach perspective
• 81 Alessandro Ielpi, Massimiliano Ghinassi, Robert H. Rainbird and Dario Ventra The shortage of geological evidence for pre-vegetation meandering rivers
• 119 William J. McMahon and Neil S. Davies An exhumed fine-grained meandering channel in the lower Permian Clear Fork Formation, north-central Texas: Processes of mud accumulation and the role of vegetation in channel dynamics
• 149 Sharane S.T. Simon, Martin R. Gibling, William A. DiMichele, Dan S. Chaney and Rebecca Koll Interpretation of cross strata formed by unit bars
• 173 Arnold Jan H. Reesink Chute cutoffs in meandering rivers: formative mechanisms and hydrodynamic forcing
• 201 Daniele P. Viero, Sergio Lopez Dubon and Stefano Lanzoni Predicting heterogeneity in meandering fluvial and tidal-fluvial deposits: The point bar to counter point bar transition
• 231 Paul R. Durkin, Stephen M. Hubbard, Derald G. Smith and Dale A. Leckie Fill characteristics of abandoned channels and resulting stratigraphy of a mobile sand-bed river floodplain
• 251 Arved Schwendel, Rolf Aalto, Andrew Nicholas and Daniel Parsons Characterising three-dimensional flow through neck cutoffs with complex planform geometry
• 273 Derek Richards, Kory Konsoer, Christopher Turnipseed and Clinton Willson Hydro-sedimentological processes in meandering rivers: A review and some future research directions
• 297 Koen Blanckaert Unsuccessful cut offs - origin and partial preservation of enigmatic channel fills encased within a large-scale point-bar deposit - The McMurray Formation type section, Alberta, Canada
• 321 Milovan Fustic, Rudy Strobl, Massimiliano Ghinassi and Shuyu Zhang Modern and ancient amalgamated sandymeander-belt deposits: recognition and controls on development
• 349 Adrian J. Hartley, Amanda Owen, Gary S. Weissmann and Louis Scuderi A novel approach for prediction of lithological heterogeneity in fluvial point-bar deposits from analysis of meander morphology and scroll-bar pattern
• 385 Catherine E. Russell, Nigel P. Mountney, David M. Hodgson and Luca Colombera Reconstructing the architecture of ancient meander belts by compiling outcrop and subsurface data: A Triassic example
• 419 Cesar Viseras, Saturnina Henares, Luis Miguel Yeste and Fernando Garcia-Garcia Reconstruction of a sandy point-bar deposit: implications for fluvial facies analysis
• 445 Alistair Swan, Adrian J. Hartley, Amanda Owen and John Howell Fluvial point-bar architecture and facies heterogeneity and their influence on intra-bar static connectivity in humid coastal-plain and dryland fan systems
• 475 Na Yan, Luca Colombera, Nigel P. Mountney and Robert M. Dorrell Emergent facies patterns within fluvial channel belts
• 509 Brian J. Willis and Richard P. Sech Quantifying impacts of fluvial intrachannel- belt heterogeneity on reservoir behaviour
• 543 Brian J. Willis and Richard P. Sech Index 573.
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The sinuous form and peculiar evolution of meandering rivers has long captured the imagination of people. Today, meandering rivers exist in some of the most densely populated areas in the World, where they provide environmental and economic wealth and opportunities, as well as posing hazards. Through geological time, the ancestors of these modern meanders built deposits that are now host to mineral resources, groundwater, and hydrocarbons. This Special Publication illustrates the breadth of current research on meandering rivers and their deposits. The collection of research papers demonstrates the state of science on fluvial process-product relationships. The articles cover fundamental and applied studies of both modern and ancient rivers, are based on state-of-the-art technology, include complementary philosophical approaches, and span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. This book includes some of the most recent advances in the study of the morphodynamics and sedimentology of meandering rivers, and is an important resource for those who want to investigate fluvial systems and their deposits.
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• Preface
• Section 1. Introduction: Hydrobiogeochemical Properties of Caprock
• 1. Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrophysics of tight rocks Dave Dewurst/Joel Sarout/Marina Pervukhina (CSIRO, Perth, Australia) or Frans Kets (Leeds University) or Dave Cole (OSU) or Manika Prasad
• 2. Biology & Biogeochemistry of Shales in GCS Paula Mouser (OSU) or Janelle Thompson (MIT)
• 3. Transport in Tight Rocks (non-fractured) Marc Fleury (IFP, France) or Andreas Bush (Shell) and B. Kroos (Aachen University)
• 4. Diagenetic Processes Impacting Shale permeability Joe Cartwright (Oxford University), or Tiago Alves (Cardiff University)
• 5. Imaging Techniques (pore-scale: FIB-SEM, micro-CT) Tom Dewers (Sandia National Lab)
• 6. Scattering methods applied to tight rock characterization (SANS/USANS/SAX/WAX) Alexis Sitchler (Colorado School of Mines) or Dave Cole (OSU) or Larry Anovitz (ORNL)
• Section 2. Fracture Generation, Permeability, and Geochemical Reactions in Damaged Shale 2.1 Geomechanics of Caprock Failure
• 7. Fracture generation, propagation and self-healing Russ Detwiller (UCI) or Chris Spiers (Utrecht University)
• 8. Fracture permeability/Interaction matrix-fracture Masa Prodanovic (UT Austin)
• 9. Impacts of triggered seismicity on shale integrity Mark Zoback (Stanford University) 2.2 Geochemical Reactions in Fractured Shale and Impacts to Permeability and Mechanical Stability
• 10. Overview of Fluid-Rock Interactions in Seals and impact on the transport and mechanical properties Suzanne Hangx (Shell, Netherlands) or Elin Skurtveit (NGI, Norway)
• 11. Mineralization rates in seal materials-- estimates and measurements
• 12. Modeling geochemical fracture evolution in GCS Jonathan Ajo-Franklin et al. (LBNL)
• Section 3. Monitoring Caprock Failure 3.1 Geophysical/seismic Techniques
• 13. Pressure monitoring Susan Hovorka/Tip Meckel (BEG, Texas) or Basin-scale communication Mark Person (New Mexico Tech) or Monitoring overpressure in seals using 4D seismic Dave Lumley (UWA)
• 14. Scale-dependent seismic signatures of fractures in GCS Laura Pyrak-Nolte (Purdue University) or Induced-seismicity monitoring to track seal failure Rob Finley (IGS)
• 15. Ground deformation Jonny Rutquist (LBL) or Don Vasco (LBNL) 3.2 Geochemical Techniques
• 16. Noble gases Jason Heath (Sandia National Lab)
• 17. Gas phase tracers for integrity monitoring Linda Stalker (CSIRO)
• 18. REE analysis or Reactive Tracers TBA
• Section 4. Environmental Impacts and Remediation Techniques
• 19. Groundwater pollution from CO2 sequestration Jens Birkholtzer et al., (LBL) Review paper
• 20. Impacts on groundwater quality and on life (e.g. seafloor life) Rolf-Birger Pedersen, Laila Reigstad/Tamara Baumberger (University of Bergen)
• 21. Bioremediation Lee Spangler (Montana State)
• 22. Using natural analogs to design and engineer effective sealing materials TBA Appendix: Supplemental materials.
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Geological Carbon Storage Subsurface Seals and Caprock Integrity Seals and caprocks are an essential component of subsurface hydrogeological systems, guiding the movement and entrapment of hydrocarbon and other fluids. Geological Carbon Storage: Subsurface Seals and Caprock Integrity offers a survey of the wealth of recent scientific work on caprock integrity with a focus on the geological controls of permanent and safe carbon dioxide storage, and the commercial deployment of geological carbon storage. Volume highlights include: Low-permeability rock characterization from the pore scale to the core scale Flow and transport properties of low-permeability rocks Fundamentals of fracture generation, self-healing, and permeability Coupled geochemical, transport and geomechanical processes in caprock Analysis of caprock behavior from natural analogues Geochemical and geophysical monitoring techniques of caprock failure and integrity Potential environmental impacts of carbon dioxide migration on groundwater resources Carbon dioxide leakage mitigation and remediation techniques Geological Carbon Storage: Subsurface Seals and Caprock Integrity is an invaluable resource for geoscientists from academic and research institutions with interests in energy and environment-related problems, as well as professionals in the field.
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