Description |
1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
Executive summary : Present state of the solid-earth sciences -- Priorities -- Planning for the future -- Recommendations -- Global overview : Essay on the earth sciences -- The earth and its components -- Unifying forces in the geological sciences -- Goals of the earth sciences: research framework -- Priority themes: research areas -- Priority themes: objectives -- Research support -- Instrumentation, computational capability, and data management -- Education and employment -- International scope -- Organization of the report -- Understanding our active planet : Essay: the dynamic earth -- Origin of the earth -- Structure and dynamics of the solid earth -- Earthquakes: consequences of a dynamic mantle -- Volcanic activity: consequence of convecting mantle -- Ocean basin processes -- Continental structure and evolution -- Geochemical cycles -- Interaction between the solid earth and its fluid envelopes -- Research opportunities -- Facilities, equipment, and data bases -- The global environment and its evolution : The global environment : a geological perspective -- Change in the global environment -- Modeling the earth system |
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Research opportunities -- Resources of the solid earth : Essay: natural exploitation -- Rock-fluid interactions -- Water resources -- Mineral resources -- Energy resources -- Resource dependency -- Research opportunities -- Hazards, land use, and environmental change : Essay: a fraction of the earth's surface -- Geomorphic hazards -- Tectonic hazards -- Hazards of extraterrestrial origin -- Problems related to population concentration -- Global change -- Research opportunities -- Ensuring excellence and the national well-being : Roles, numbers, and backgrounds of solid-earth scientists -- Education in the solid-earth sciences -- Instrumentation and facilities -- Data gathering and handling -- Global collaboration -- Recommendations -- Research priorities and recommendations : Setting research priorities -- Previous recommendations and initiatives -- Goals, research areas, objectives, and research opportunities -- Priority themes and research selections -- Research implementation: facilities, equipment, and data needs -- Financial support of priority research -- Recommendations |
Analysis |
Earth sciences United States |
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United States |
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earth sciences |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Earth sciences -- United States
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Geophysics.
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Earth sciences
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Sciences de la Terre -- États-Unis.
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
92041781 |
ISBN |
0585024499 |
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9780585024493 |
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9780309047395 |
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0309047390 |
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