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SciTech Book News

As a resource for librarians and other buyers of high-level books, SciTech Book News, published quarterly, cites about 2000 new books from several hundred publishers in each issue, offering concise reviews and annotations and thorough bibliographic information. The bibliography itself is arranged by subject, but this page and the other publisher pages present the material arranged by publisher.

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American Geophysical Union

Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — June 2007

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Back-arc spreading systems; geological, biological, chemical, and physical interactions.

Ed. by David M. Christie et al. (Geophysical monograph; 166)

978-0-87590-431-3

Christie (U. of Alaska Fairbanks) et al. gather together 10 papers and three case studies that study the geological, biological, chemical, and physical interactions that occur along back-arc basin spreading centers. Chapters were taken from the Ridge 2000-InterRidge Theoretical Institute, "Interactions among Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Geological Processes in Backarc Spreading Systems," held on Jeju Island, South Korea, in May of 2004. Topics include GPS studies of convergent margins, the Lau Basin, mantle material, the melting process, hydrothermal chemistry, and the role of volatiles in hydrothermal metal transport and ore deposition. Others address microbial ecology, hydrothermal animal communities, and vent fauna, and the case studies consider the east Scotia Sea, the Bismarck Sea, and the West Philippine Basin. The book is aimed at experienced researchers and students in the fields of marine geology, biological oceanography, marine geochemistry, volcanology, petrology, and geo- and paleomagnetism. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Earthquakes; radiated energy and the physics of faulting. (CD-ROM included)

Ed. by Rachel Abercrombie et al. (Geophysical monograph; 170)

978-0-87590-435-1

Abercrombie and her coeditors from the American Geophysical Union (Washington, DC) present 28 chapters on the energy changes associated with earthquakes for use by Solid Earth scientists, researchers, and students — particularly those working in seismology, tectonophysics, rock mechanics, and geodesy. The chapters cover current research and theory in the following main subjects: how earthquake energy is measured, effects of earthquake size and tectonic setting, geological fault zone research, insights from numerical simulations, and the efficiency of the "earthquake machine." The text is also provided on the accompanying CDROM. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Magnetospheric ULF waves; synthesis and new directions.

Ed. by Kazue Takahashi et al. (Geophysical monograph series; 169)

978-0-87590-434-4

Prompted by a March 2005 conference held in San Diego, this volume explores the kinetic theory of the propagation of ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves, the interaction of ULF waves with charged particles, the role of the ionosphere in generating ULF waves, and sensing methods. The final chapter reviews observations at Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter. Topics of the 19 papers include global MHD eigenmodes of the outer magnetosphere, the effect of EMIC waves on radiation belt particles, passive and active radar techniques for detecting the ULF waves, and electron phase space density signatures. No index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)