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Soil Clays

Linking Geology, Biology, Agriculture, and the Environment

By: G. Jock Churchman,Bruce Velde

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Soil Clays

Linking Geology, Biology, Agriculture, and the Environment

By: G. Jock Churchman,Bruce Velde

As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and intensify. Soils are essential for the sustenance of almost all plants and animals, including humans, but soils are virtually infinitely variable. Clays are the most reactive and interactive inorganic compounds in soils. Clays in soils often differ from pure clay minerals of geological origin. They provide a template for most of the reactive organic matter in soils. They directly affect plant nutrients, soil temperature and pH, aggregate sizes and strength, porosity and water-holding capacities. This book aims to help improve predictions of important properties of soils through a modern understanding of their highly reactive clay minerals as they are formed and occur in soils worldwide. It examines how clays occur in soils and the role of soil clays in disparate applications including plant nutrition, soil structure, and water-holding capacity, soil quality, soil shrinkage and swelling, carbon sequestration, pollution control and remediation, medicine, forensic investigation, and deciphering human and environmental histories. Features: Provides information on the conditions that lead to the formation of clay minerals in soils Distinguishes soil clays and types of clay minerals Describes clay mineral structures and their origins Describes occurrences and associations of clays in soil Details roles of clays in applications of soils Heavily illustrated with photos, diagrams, and electron micrographs Includes user-friendly description of a new method of identification To know soil clays is to enable their use toward achieving improvements in the management of soils for enhancing their performance in one or more of their three main functions of enabling plant growth, regulating water flow to plants, and buffering environmental changes. This book provides an easily-read and extensively-illustrated description of the nature, formation, identification, occurrence and associations, measurement, reactivities, and applications of clays in soils.

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CRC Press

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0429532245

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9780429532245

A Short Course in Soil-Structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels

By: Charles Ng,Noel Simons,Bruce Menzies

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A Short Course in Soil-Structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels

By: Charles Ng,Noel Simons,Bruce Menzies

CD includes student editions of the OASYS software packages 'FREW' and 'Safe'.

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426

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Thomas Telford

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0727732633

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9780727732637

Matter and Interactions

By: Ruth W. Chabay,Bruce A. Sherwood

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Matter and Interactions

By: Ruth W. Chabay,Bruce A. Sherwood

Matter and Interactions offers a modern curriculum for introductory physics (calculus-based). It presents physics the way practicing physicists view their discipline and integrates 20th Century physics and computational physics. The text emphasizes the small number of fundamental principles that underlie the behavior of matter, and models that can explain and predict a wide variety of physical phenomena. Matter and Interactions will be available as a single volume hardcover text and also two paperback volumes.

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1128

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470503475

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9780470503478

Illite

Origins, Evolution and Metamorphism

By: Alain Meunier,Bruce D. Velde

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Illite

Origins, Evolution and Metamorphism

By: Alain Meunier,Bruce D. Velde

This monograph examines the mineralogy of illite, the most common clay mineral, as a unifying theme for understanding problems of the surface environment and environmental change. The volume begins with a careful analysis of the structure and transformation of illite. Using illite as the frame, the authors describe problems in soil chemistry, clay stability and clay kinetics in sedimentary rocks.

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308

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Springer Science & Business Media

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ISBN 10

3662078503

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9783662078501

A Short Course in Geotechnical Site Investigation

By: N. E. Simons,Bruce Menzies,Bruce Keith Menzies,Marcus Matthews,M. C. Matthews

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A Short Course in Geotechnical Site Investigation

By: N. E. Simons,Bruce Menzies,Bruce Keith Menzies,Marcus Matthews,M. C. Matthews

Folded card: Identification and description of soils; and, Identification and description of rocks / designed by Environmental Services Group Limited 2007 in accordance with BS EN ISO 14689-1 and BS EN ISO 14688-1 respectively; and designed to be taken into the field during the walk-over survey.

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376

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Thomas Telford

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0727729489

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9780727729484

The New Carbon Architecture

Building to Cool the Climate

By: Bruce King

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The New Carbon Architecture

Building to Cool the Climate

By: Bruce King

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported — comprising some 10% of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the climate. It doesn't have to be this way. Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of the sky with a massive positive impact. The New Carbon Architecture is a paradigm-shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Office towers built from advanced wood products; affordable, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. We can even grow insulation from mycelium. A tour de force by the leaders in the field, The New Carbon Architecture will fire the imagination of architects, engineers, builders, policy makers, and everyone else captivated by the possibility of architecture to heal the climate and produce safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.

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186

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New Society Publishers

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1550926616

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9781550926613

Death, War, and Sacrifice

Studies in Ideology & Practice

By: Bruce Lincoln

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Death, War, and Sacrifice

Studies in Ideology & Practice

By: Bruce Lincoln

One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the essays—six of them previously unpublished—fall into three parts. Part I deals with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain the best available source of data for the topics they address. In Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a single culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to that of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters connecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of antiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human society into an ideologically charged correlation. Part III presents Lincoln's most controversial case against a hypothetical Indo-European protoculture. Reconsidering the work of the prominent Indo-Europeanist Georges Dumézil, Lincoln argues that Dumézil's writings were informed and inflected by covert political concerns characteristic of French fascism. This collection is an invaluable resource for students of myth, ritual, ancient societies, anthropology, and the history of religions. Bruce Lincoln is professor of humanities and religious studies at the University of Minnesota.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226481999

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9780226481999

A Short Course in Foundation Engineering

By: N. E. Simons,Bruce Menzies

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A Short Course in Foundation Engineering

By: N. E. Simons,Bruce Menzies

Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by 'hand-calculation' has become vitally important. This book concentrates on getting the fundamentals right and then using them in practical applications. The book is illustrated with numerous worked examples and with quick-reference tables and charts. In this new edition, the original highly acclaimed text has been extended and updated and now includes major new sections on short term and long term stability, critical state interpretation of peak strength, seismic methods for measuring ground stiffness in situ, and offshore pile design: total stress and effective stress approaches.A

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Thomas Telford

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0727727516

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9780727727510

Priceless Florida

Natural Ecosystems and Native Species

By: Eleanor Noss Whitney,D. Bruce Means,Anne Rudloe

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Priceless Florida

Natural Ecosystems and Native Species

By: Eleanor Noss Whitney,D. Bruce Means,Anne Rudloe

Ellie Whitney grew up in New York City, was educated at Harvard and Washington universities, and has lived in Tallahassee since 1970. She has taught at Florida State and Florida A & M universities Bruce Means grew up in Alaska, has a Ph. D. in biology from the Florida State University, and is president of the Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy Anne Rudloe has a Ph. D. in biology from Florida State University. She and her husband Jack Rudloe live in Panacea, Florida, where they run the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory.

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Pineapple Press Inc

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1561643084

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9781561643080

Book's by Bruce Clay

Soil Clays

Soil Clays

A Short Course in Soil-Structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels

A Short Course in Soil-Structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels

Matter and Interactions

Matter and Interactions

Illite

Illite

A Short Course in Geotechnical Site Investigation

A Short Course in Geotechnical Site Investigation

The New Carbon Architecture

The New Carbon Architecture

Death, War, and Sacrifice

Death, War, and Sacrifice

A Short Course in Foundation Engineering

A Short Course in Foundation Engineering

Priceless Florida

Priceless Florida

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