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Colorado water law for non-lawyers by Jones, P. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Colorado climate, geology, and hydrology -- Early water use and development -- Water law basics -- Introduction to federal and interstate issues -- Tributary water -- Non-tributary and not non-tributary groundwater -- Designated groundwater -- Exempt wells -- River administration -- Water entities -- Water rights in the marketplace -- Emerging trends and issues.…”
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The prehistory of the Tuxtlas by Santley, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The contemporary setting, natural environment, and geologic history of the Tuxtlas -- The culture history of the Tuxtlas -- Classic period ceramics production and distribution -- Classic period obsidian production and distribution -- Teotihuacán, Matacapan, and the Tuxtlas -- The classic period political economy of the Tuxtlas -- The rise and demise of complex society in the Tuxtlas -- Summary and conclusions.…”
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Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / by Lucier, Paul, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Coal -- Geological enterprise -- The strange case of the Albert mineral -- The American sciences of coal -- Mining science -- Kerosene -- The technological science of kerosene -- The kerosene cases -- Petroleum -- The rock oil report -- The elusive nature of oil and its markets -- The search for oil and oil-finding experts -- California crude -- Americanization of science.…”
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Colorado water law for non-lawyers by Jones, P. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Colorado climate, geology, and hydrology -- Early water use and development -- Water law basics -- Introduction to federal and interstate issues -- Tributary water -- Non-tributary and not non-tributary groundwater -- Designated groundwater -- Exempt wells -- River administration -- Water entities -- Water rights in the marketplace -- Emerging trends and issues.…”
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The prehistory of the Tuxtlas by Santley, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The contemporary setting, natural environment, and geologic history of the Tuxtlas -- The culture history of the Tuxtlas -- Classic period ceramics production and distribution -- Classic period obsidian production and distribution -- Teotihuacán, Matacapan, and the Tuxtlas -- The classic period political economy of the Tuxtlas -- The rise and demise of complex society in the Tuxtlas -- Summary and conclusions.…”
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Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / by Lucier, Paul, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Coal -- Geological enterprise -- The strange case of the Albert mineral -- The American sciences of coal -- Mining science -- Kerosene -- The technological science of kerosene -- The kerosene cases -- Petroleum -- The rock oil report -- The elusive nature of oil and its markets -- The search for oil and oil-finding experts -- California crude -- Americanization of science.…”
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Big Bone Lick the cradle of American paleontology / by Hedeen, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Geologic setting -- Source of salt and health -- Indian accounts of great buffalo -- Gathering the bones -- Animal incognitum -- Thomas Jefferson takes an interest -- A question of tusks -- William Goforth's stolen specimens -- William Clark's bountiful collection -- The faunal list evolves -- Other mammoth changes -- Agents of extinction.…”
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Disasters in the United States : Frequency, Costs, and Compensation / by Brusentsev, Vera, Vroman, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Setting the scene: a guide to this volume -- Reporting, frequency, and correlates of disasters -- Providing compensation to survivors of disasters -- Hurricanes -- Floods and their consequences -- Tornadoes -- Drought and other risks to agriculture -- Wildfires -- Geological and man-made disasters -- Disasters and compensation systems -- Figures -- References -- Authors -- Index -- About the institute.…”
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Disasters in the United States : Frequency, Costs, and Compensation / by Brusentsev, Vera, Vroman, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Setting the scene: a guide to this volume -- Reporting, frequency, and correlates of disasters -- Providing compensation to survivors of disasters -- Hurricanes -- Floods and their consequences -- Tornadoes -- Drought and other risks to agriculture -- Wildfires -- Geological and man-made disasters -- Disasters and compensation systems -- Figures -- References -- Authors -- Index -- About the institute.…”
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Doctors without Borders in Ethiopia among the Afar / by Hubbard, Nyla Jo Jones

Table of Contents: “…Ethiopia and Doctors without Borders -- Laying foundations for a functioning laboratory -- Team life : flies, heat, and bacteria without borders -- It's the simple tools that work -- Birds and beasts -- Addis, the big town -- The lab grows up -- Further into the inferno : a geological laboratory -- The Afar -- A question of food -- Christmas -- Home; to a changing world.…”
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Doctors without Borders in Ethiopia among the Afar / by Hubbard, Nyla Jo Jones

Table of Contents: “…Ethiopia and Doctors without Borders -- Laying foundations for a functioning laboratory -- Team life : flies, heat, and bacteria without borders -- It's the simple tools that work -- Birds and beasts -- Addis, the big town -- The lab grows up -- Further into the inferno : a geological laboratory -- The Afar -- A question of food -- Christmas -- Home; to a changing world.…”
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Biosphere origin and evolution

Table of Contents: “…IV. Coevolution of geological and biological events in phanerozoe -- pt. …”
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Biosphere origin and evolution

Table of Contents: “…IV. Coevolution of geological and biological events in phanerozoe -- pt. …”
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Geomorphology : the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes / by Anderson, Robert S (Robert Stewart), 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the study of surface processes -- Whole earth morphology -- Large scale morphology -- Large-scale topopgraphy -- Tectonic geomorphology -- Atmospheric processes and geomorphology -- Dating methods and establishing timing in the landscape -- Weathering -- Glaciers and glacial geology -- Periglacial processes and forms -- Hillslopes -- Water in the landscape -- Rivers -- Bedrock channels -- Sediment transport mechanics -- Eolian forms and deposits -- Coastal geomorphology -- The geomorphology of big floods -- Whole landscapes.…”
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Blood on the stone greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade / by Smillie, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Of judgement and cunning work : dirty diamonds -- The river of big returns : geology and history -- De Beers : the delicate equipoise -- Strange plumbing : the diamond pipeline -- Angola : another distracting sideshow -- Liberia and the love of liberty -- Sierra Leone : diamonds in the RUF -- President Mobutu's ghost -- Enter Al Qaeda -- Boiling frogs : companies in hot water -- Ice storm : the NGO campaign -- Kimberley : a hope in hell -- Endgames.…”
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Blood on the stone greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade / by Smillie, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Of judgement and cunning work : dirty diamonds -- The river of big returns : geology and history -- De Beers : the delicate equipoise -- Strange plumbing : the diamond pipeline -- Angola : another distracting sideshow -- Liberia and the love of liberty -- Sierra Leone : diamonds in the RUF -- President Mobutu's ghost -- Enter Al Qaeda -- Boiling frogs : companies in hot water -- Ice storm : the NGO campaign -- Kimberley : a hope in hell -- Endgames.…”
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Geomorphology : the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes / by Anderson, Robert S (Robert Stewart), 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the study of surface processes -- Whole earth morphology -- Large scale morphology -- Large-scale topopgraphy -- Tectonic geomorphology -- Atmospheric processes and geomorphology -- Dating methods and establishing timing in the landscape -- Weathering -- Glaciers and glacial geology -- Periglacial processes and forms -- Hillslopes -- Water in the landscape -- Rivers -- Bedrock channels -- Sediment transport mechanics -- Eolian forms and deposits -- Coastal geomorphology -- The geomorphology of big floods -- Whole landscapes.…”
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Mantle convection for geologists by Davies, Geoffrey F. (Geoffrey Frederick)

Table of Contents: “…Assimilating mantle convection into geology; Appendix A. Exponential growth and decay; Appendix B. …”
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Mantle convection for geologists by Davies, Geoffrey F. (Geoffrey Frederick)

Table of Contents: “…Assimilating mantle convection into geology; Appendix A. Exponential growth and decay; Appendix B. …”
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Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / by Lander, James

Table of Contents: “…Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.…”
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