Rift

Author : John Barry Dawson
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : 1862392676

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The Gregory Rift Valley and Neogene-recent Volcanoes of Northern Tanzania by John Barry Dawson Pdf

The structure and volcanic activity of the northern Tanzania sector of the Gregory Rift Valley have hitherto been less well described than those in Ethiopia and Kenya. This book focuses on northern Tanzania where, although the volcanic area is smaller than those to the north, there are major features such as Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain on the African continent; Ngorongoro, one of the largest calderas on Earth; and Oldoinyo Lengai, the world's only active carbonatite volcano. Following an account of the discovery and early exploration of the rift valley, there are descriptions of the individual volcanoes. These are set within the context of the regional geology and geophysics of the rift valley, and in relation to the structural evolution of the rift and its associated sedimentary basins which include Olduvai, an important site in the history of human evolution The volume concludes with a discussion of the volcanism as related to the plume-related African Superswell.

Author : Walter Jon Williams
Publisher : Walter Jon Williams
Page : 1247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780988901742

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The Rift by Walter Jon Williams Pdf

"The Rift would be a very good beach book, if you could put it down long enough to get into the water." —— The San Diego Union Tribune FRACTURE LINES PERMEATE THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES. Some comprise the New Madrid fault, the most dangerous earthquake zone in the world. Other fracture lines are social—— economic, religious, racial, and ethnic. What happens when they all crack at once? Caught in the disaster as cities burn and bridges tumble, young Jason Adams finds himself adrift on the Mississippi with African-American engineer Nick Ruford. A modern-day Huck and Jim, they spin helplessly down the river and into the widening faults in American society, encountering violence and hope, compassion and despair, and the primal wilderness that threatens to engulf not only them, but all they love... " A breakout book that you'll swear the author lived" —— SF Age "I don't like disaster novels. I would not have even glanced at The Rift if it weren't backed by Walter Jon Williams' reputation for excellence. And I definitely would not have kept reading if Williams hadn't demonstrated on every page that he deserves his reputation. The result? I was so engrossed in—— and engaged by ——The Rift that I forgot that I don't like disaster novels. This book is an impressive achievement.” —— Stephen R. Donaldson, New York Times bestselling author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant "The Rift is bloody wonderful! Williams brings an historic disaster back for an encore and metaphorically flattens it again. This is the stuff for which sleep is lost--and awards are made." —— Dean Ing "The Rift shakes up the world like it's never been shaken before." —— Fred Saberhagen "[For fans of the disaster novel] Williams delivers the requisite thrills and setpieces—— but he also, to paraphrase Conrad, offers a bit of that truth for which they forgot to ask." —— Locus

Author : Don Handfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784926513042

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The Rift by Don Handfield Pdf

Now an episode of Apple+'s Amazing Stories, when rifts in time break families apart one man must figure out how to put them back together. The Rift tells the story of a single mother and her son whose lives change forever after witnessing a WWII fighter pilot from 1941 crash land in present-day Kansas. They find themselves drawn into the work of Section 47, a secret government organization responsible for responding to Rifts that open in space and time.

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473216372

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Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds Pdf

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers

Author : Peter M. LeTourneau,Paul Eric Olsen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231111621

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The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America: Tectonics, structure, and volcanism by Peter M. LeTourneau,Paul Eric Olsen Pdf

The breakup of the Pangean supercontinent in the Triassic-Jurassic age left great rift basins containing an extraordinary record of the physical and biological conditions which precipitated a major extinction event at the time. These basins collectively form a rift province called the Central Atlantic Margin, which spans more than 45 degrees of paleolatitude and records over 35 million years of Earth history. Leading experts present a detailed review of the rift province's geology, paleobiology, and geophysics. This extensive two-volume work offers in-depth coverage of the North American components of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. In volume 1, leading researchers give thorough reviews and highlight recent advances in our understanding of the structural geology, tectonics, and volcanism of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.

Author : Robert Stetson
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783730973684

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THE RIFT by Robert Stetson Pdf

Based on a true concept, Quantum Entanglement. The galaxy has evolved into a technocracy resulting in a utopian society. Quantum Entanglement disturbs dark matter and aliens come through the rift to annihilate humankind. We create a military regime to Battle the aliens. Will the aliens be defeated? Will the military regime surrender their rule back to the people when it’s over as promised, or will we have to fight to get it back?

Author : Kristina Lyn Heitkamp
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499463200

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The Rift Valley and the Archaeological Evidence of the First Humans by Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Pdf

East Africa’s Rift Valley has proven a rich source of information about our distant ancestors. Fossil finds there, including the famous Lucy and Turkana Boy, have permanently altered our understanding of how modern humans evolved. Readers will learn about the other hominins—such as the species "Homo erectus" and the genus "Australopithecus"—who help fill out the human family tree. The engaging text explains how archaeologists’ discoveries of bones, tools, early art, evidence of hearths, and other evidence has furthered our understanding of the origins of modern humans. A timeline helps readers understand the chronology of the topic.

Author : Bethany Challenger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483625287

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Rift Realm by Bethany Challenger Pdf

If I am to believe the words that I am reading, this is a journal from my daughter, I must accept what she writes, where she has been, what she has been doing, to think otherwise would be to accept that this book is the writings of a deranged person, lost to reality and who has most likely done harm to herself and her friend and that is not my daughter. Since the discovery of this first book, two more have appeared, so I know Jade is alive and for the most part safe, for now these books are my only tie with her and I will not give up on her so I have published her journals in the hope that someone may read them and know more, that one day she will return. What follows are the writings of Jade Avanasy my daughter from a world beyond ours, if I am correct outside our Universe, a place and time not of here called the Realmscape, a place she and her friend Dax were pulled into the night she went missing, one filled with fairy folk, old lore, magic, dragons, gods and demons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787588806

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The Rift by Anonim Pdf

From the author of the acclaimed If You Go Down to the Woods (HarperCollins) comes a new thriller in the slipstream of Jacob’s The Monkey’s Paw and King’s Pet Sematary. Joe Jimenez, grieving father and estranged husband, on the eve of the anniversary of his son's death is on the brink of complete despair when he witnesses the arrival of a strange atmospheric anomaly. The rift – a curious tear in the very air of his backyard – appears nightly, and after some experimentation, Joe discovers that for everything that's sent through the rift, something similar, but horribly wrong, comes back. And when something on the other side claims to be in possession of his son, Joe has to make the most important decision of his life: should he go through and find out? FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress

Author : Gabriella Bradley
Publisher : eXtasy Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487441173

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Mending The Rift by Gabriella Bradley Pdf

Avoiding holiday festivities, Jordan VanBuren chooses the company of the celestial bodies he fervently admires. Loneliness tugs at his heart as the clock nears midnight, knowing he is the lone wolf in a world of families and friends. The woman of his dreams has always been an elusive fantasy. Too divine, too surreal, to exist in reality. When he is drawn into a portal, a rift in time and space, he discovers more than he bargained for.

Author : Adair Hart
Publisher : Quantum Edge Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791223006221

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The Rift Impact by Adair Hart Pdf

When everything appears hopeless, sometimes all you need is a cosmic helping hand. Dylan Townsend didn’t expect to spend his twenty-second birthday on an alien moon in the Andromeda galaxy along with Isaac Barret, and Dr. Kate Minter. They have no idea how they were transported from Earth to an alien world and then put in quarantine. They’ve lost hope of being rescued and have resigned themselves to spending the rest of their lives on the moon. The Systral Empire, which captured the humans, has a bigger issue to deal with. A star entity orbits their sun and is growing, blocking out all sunlight. All attempts to remove it have failed. This would impact the moon the humans are on first. Another concern is that portals are opening on Varlon, their home world, and depositing strange aliens. Enter Evaran and M, two cosmic beings who travel through space, time, and beyond to help those in need. They, along with the Systrals and humans, will have their hands full with all the problems and deeper threats that have yet to reveal themselves. And the Systral Empire’s very existence is at stake.

Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616961268

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Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts Pdf

Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter’s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms. Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.

Author : Kevin Siembieda
Publisher : Palladium Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Games
ISBN : 1574571508

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Rifts Role-Playing Game by Kevin Siembieda Pdf

Author : Alex Perry
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780297871248

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The Rift by Alex Perry Pdf

Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and abused - by outsiders. Perry travelled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis, among many others. Opening with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime in Somalia in 2011, he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. This is a remade continent, defiantly rising from centuries of oppression to become an economic and political titan: where cash is becoming a thing of the past, where astronomers are unlocking the origin of life and where, twenty-five years after Live Aid, Ethiopia's first yuppies are traders on an electronic food exchange. Yet, as Africa finally wins the substance of its freedom, it must confront the three last false prophets of Islamists, dictators and aid workers, who would keep it in its bonds.

Author : Achyuta Ayan Misra,Soumyajit Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319205762

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Tectonic Inheritance in Continental Rifts and Passive Margins by Achyuta Ayan Misra,Soumyajit Mukherjee Pdf

This work reviews the mechanism of rifting with a focus on pre-existing tectonic weaknesses in pre-rift and/or basement rocks, i.e., on tectonic inheritance. The passive margins that are studied in this book are the Norwegian Continental Shelf, the Eastern North America and the East and West Indian Continental Margins. The continental rifts that have been analysed are the East African Rift System, the Brazilian Continental Rift Systems and the European Cenozoic Rift System. It states how rifts and passive margins serve as valuable locations for hydrocarbon exploration. Tectonic inheritance/heritage examines the influence of pre-existing/pre-rift elements on the geometry, genesis and propagation of rift-related faults. Such elements include anisotropies in the shallow crustal levels, as well as the rheology of the lithosphere. Inheritance greatly influences the architecture of rifted passive margins including the attitude of faults and geometry of horsts, (half-) grabens, transfer zones etc. Inheritance is also a determining factor in the width of rifts and rift shoulder topography.