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Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument, Eastern Utah
The eastern part of the state of UtahUtah, southwestern USA, is an area of considerable geological diversity. Desert landformsDesert landforms in the...
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Lake Natron and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Northern Tanzania
Northern Tanzania is a region of spectacular landformsLandforms, with some of the largest and most diverse concentrations of wildlife remaining on...
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Canyonlands National Park and Monument Valley, Eastern and Southern Utah
The eastern and southern parts of the state of UtahUtah, southwest USA, contain some of the world’s most spectacular desert landformsDesert...
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How Far Did the Glaciers Reach?
How far did the glaciers reach? You would think that after about 150 years of ice age research, this question would be finally answered, but that is...
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Antiquities and Archaeological Sites of the Peloponnese and Zakynthos, Greece
The PeloponnesePeloponnese is a mountainous region of southwest GreeceGreece restricted to a deeply indented peninsula surrounded by segments of the...
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Energy and Economic Narratives
This chapter introduces the reader to the concepts and ideas within the book. A real-world story of a Texas town voting on whether to allow natural...
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Pillars of a Great Power—Intelligent Manufacturing in China
FAST is designed, developed, manufactured and constructed by Chinese scientists. It took 22 years from the pilot study in 1994 to its completion in...
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István Orosz
In his graphic art, István Orosz (1951–) often reaches out to science-related topics. He has prepared illustrations for several of our books and...
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Tills and Terminal Moraines: The Traces of the Glaciers
Silt, sand, gravel and stones and boulders; they were traditionally called “moraines”. However, since in German both surface forms (end moraines) and...
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Future
Japan has a planning system in place for its rockets, satellites and missions into the 2030s. The first key priority is the introduction of a new...
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Ascan Pioneers
NASA’s Space Shuttle was sufficiently complex to require the new astronauts to be divided into two groups from the start. The Pilots (PLT) would fly...
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Skaergaard Intrusion, Greenland and Eastern Bushveld Complex, South Africa
Layered igneous intrusionsLayered igneous intrusion are large plutons characterized by sub-horizontal rock layers. In a broad sense, the mineralogy...
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Introduction
This introduction makes the case for the importance of pedagogy and the training of future instructors of global politics. It argues that emerging...
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Terrestrial Cave and Lava Tube Research
The NASA Centers and their contractors have ongoing multidisciplinary studies and projects involving exploration of the MoonMoon and Mars, some of...
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The “China Sky Eye” Explores the Universe
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or the FAST for short, known as the “China Sky Eye”, is the world’s largest and most sensitive...
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Disposal
The responsible handling of the radiating legacies of nuclear energy is one of the major unsolved problems of today’s energy industry. In contrast...
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The Mountain and Its Madness
Please note that Figs. “2.1–2.8, 2.10–2.12” are not cross-referred in the text.
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Spacecraft, Landers, Rovers and Payloads
There are now many activities underway concerning Artemis, including those of NASA Centers and its aerospace contractors, extending from the ground...
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The Scientist
As “King of the Aesthetes,” Wilde is often presumed to have distinguished his intellectual output from the more objective and concrete methods of the...
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Interpretation in Time
Seismic interpreter: that’s how I prefer to describe my professional skill. But on company organisation charts and employment contracts I am reported...