TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Scientific Value of Coring the Proposed Southern Appalachian Research Drill Hole DO - 10.17226/18690 PY - 1987 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18690/scientific-value-of-coring-the-proposed-southern-appalachian-research-drill-hole PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academy of Sciences TI - Biographical Memoirs: Volume 69 SN - DO - 10.17226/5193 PY - 1996 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5193/biographical-memoirs-volume-69 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Biography and Autobiography AB - Biographic Memoirs: Volume 69 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. ER - TY - BOOK TI - Report of the committee of the National academy of sciences on Panama canal slides. DO - 10.17226/26947 PY - 1924 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26947/report-of-the-committee-of-the-national-academy-of-sciences-on-panama-canal-slides PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Continental Tectonics SN - DO - 10.17226/203 PY - 1980 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/203/continental-tectonics PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK TI - Geochemistry and the Environment: Volume I: The Relation of Selected Trace Elements to Health and Disease DO - 10.17226/20136 PY - 1974 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/20136/geochemistry-and-the-environment-volume-i-the-relation-of-selected PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Environment and Environmental Studies ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Erol Tutumluer A2 - Maziar Moaveni A2 - Issam I. A. Qamhia TI - Aggregate Quality Requirements for Pavements DO - 10.17226/25205 PY - 2018 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25205/aggregate-quality-requirements-for-pavements PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 524: Aggregate Quality Requirements for Pavements Aggregate Quality Requirements for Pavements documents transportation agency requirements for the quality of aggregates for various pavement types. Constructing and maintaining pavements requires an abundant and dependable supply of quality aggregates. Aggregate comes from a wide range of materials, including quarried rock, sand, and gravel, and materials such as slag, reclaimed asphalt pavement, and recycled concrete aggregate. While all transportation agencies have specifications for aggregate quality, there is wide variation in what different agencies consider suitable aggregates for specific applications.The report is accompanied by the following appendices:Appendix A: Survey QuestionnaireAppendix B: Survey Respondent InformationAppendix C: Compilation of Survey Responses Provided by Agency Respondents Appendix D: Links to Approved Aggregate Lists and Specifications Published by Agencies ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - The Role of Fluids in Crustal Processes SN - DO - 10.17226/1346 PY - 1990 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1346/the-role-of-fluids-in-crustal-processes PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences AB - Water and other fluids play a vital role in the processes that shape the earth's crust, possibly even influencing earthquakes and volcanism. Fluids affect the movement of chemicals and heat in the crust, and they are the major factor in the formation of hydrothermal ore deposits. Yet, fluids have been overlooked in many geologic investigations. The Role of Fluids in Crustal Processes addresses this lack of attention with a survey of what experts know about the role of fluids in the Earth's crust—and what future research can reveal. The overview discusses factors that affect fluid movement and the coupled equations that represent energy and mass transport processes, chemical reactions, and the relation of fluids to stress distribution. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Explosive Volcanism: Inception, Evolution, and Hazards DO - 10.17226/18602 PY - 1984 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18602/explosive-volcanism-inception-evolution-and-hazards PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academy of Sciences TI - Biographical Memoirs: Volume 60 SN - DO - 10.17226/6061 PY - 1991 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6061/biographical-memoirs-volume-60 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Biography and Autobiography AB - Biographic Memoirs: Volume 60 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Options for Scientific Ocean Drilling DO - 10.17226/18523 PY - 1982 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18523/options-for-scientific-ocean-drilling PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK TI - Lexicon of Antarctic Stratigraphic Names: Introduced by Members of United States Expeditions DO - 10.17226/20429 PY - 1972 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/20429/lexicon-of-antarctic-stratigraphic-names-introduced-by-members-of-united PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Margins: A Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Processes Attending Lithospheric Extension and Convergence SN - DO - 10.17226/1500 PY - 1989 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1500/margins-a-research-initiative-for-interdisciplinary-studies-of-the-processes PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences AB - Approximately 70 percent of the world's population is concentrated in the coastal borderlands, which geologists recognize to be the present continental margins. This new book on these continental margins provides a detailed account of a meeting which brought together specialists in marine and terrestrial geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. The workshop garnered widespread support and enthusiasm for a new direction in margins research focused on interdisciplinary studies of the fundamental processes of continental margin evolution. Scientific problems and solutions were identified for both divergent and convergent margins. Results of the workshop show that many of the fundamental plate interaction processes are common to all margins, whether formed by extension, contraction, or translation. This conclusion suggests a unified approach to margins research. A margins initiative has been proposed to follow up on the workshop results by developing science programs aimed at understanding the processes that control the initiation and evolution of continental margins. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Exploration of Near Earth Objects SN - DO - 10.17226/6106 PY - 1998 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6106/exploration-of-near-earth-objects PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - Comets and asteroids are in some sense the fossils of the solar system. They have avoided most of the drastic physical processing that shaped the planets and thus represent more closely the properties of the primordial solar nebula. What processing has taken place is itself of interest in decoding the history of our solar neighborhood. Near-Earth objects are also of interest because one or more large ones have been blamed for the rare but devastating events that caused mass extinctions of species on our planet, as attested by recent excitement over the impending passage of asteroid 1997 XF11.The comets and asteroids whose orbits bring them close to Earth are clearly the most accessible to detailed investigation, both from the ground and from spacecraft. When nature kindly delivers the occasional asteroid to the surface of Earth as a meteorite, we can scrutinize it closely in the laboratory; a great deal of information about primordial chemical composition and primitive processes has been gleaned from such objects.This report reviews the current state of research on near-Earth objects and considers future directions. Attention is paid to the important interplay between ground-based investigations and spaceborne observation or sample collection and return. This is particularly timely since one U.S. spacecraft is already on its way to rendezvous with a near-Earth object, and two others plus a Japanese mission are being readied for launch. In addition to scientific issues, the report considers technologies that would enable further advances in capability and points out the possibilities for including near-Earth objects in any future expansion of human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. ER - TY - BOOK TI - Doctorates Conferred in the Sciences by American Universities 1931-1932: Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council DO - 10.17226/9564 PY - 1932 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9564/doctorates-conferred-in-the-sciences-by-american-universities-1931-1932 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Math, Chemistry, and Physics ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Ayesha Shah A2 - Jan Olek A2 - Rebecca S. McDaniel TI - Practices for Assessing and Mitigating the Moisture Susceptibility of Asphalt Pavements DO - 10.17226/26725 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26725/practices-for-assessing-and-mitigating-the-moisture-susceptibility-of-asphalt-pavements PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Incompatibility between aggregate type and asphalt binder, presence of standing water or water under pressure in the pavement layers, and improper construction practices are some of the many factors that influence moisture susceptibility of flexible pavements.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Synthesis 595: Practices for Assessing and Mitigating the Moisture Susceptibility of Asphalt Pavements documents practices used by state departments of transportation to prevent or to minimize moisture damage in hot-mix asphalt pavements. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Groundwater Contamination SN - DO - 10.17226/1770 PY - 1984 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1770/groundwater-contamination PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon SN - DO - 10.17226/11954 PY - 2007 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11954/the-scientific-context-for-exploration-of-the-moon PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - Because of the Moon’s unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASA’s space exploration vision. Currently NASA is defining and implementing a series of robotic orbital and landed missions to the Moon as the initial phase of this vision. To realize the benefits of this activity, NASA needs a comprehensive, well-validated, and prioritized set of scientific research objectives. To help establish those objectives, NASA asked the NRC to provide guidance on the scientific challenges and opportunities enabled by sustained robotic and human exploration of the Moon during the period 2008-2023 and beyond. This final report presents a review of the current understanding of the early earth and moon; the identification of key science concepts and goals for moon exploration; an assessment of implementation options; and a set of prioritized lunar science concepts, goals, and recommendations. An interim report was released in September 2006. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - North American Continent-Ocean Transects Program SN - DO - 10.17226/1521 PY - 1989 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1521/north-american-continent-ocean-transects-program PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences AB - This book discusses the results of the transects program, which involves compilations of maps and cross sections showing geological, geophysical, and geochemical data and interpretations along 23 transects from the continental craton to the oceanic lithosphere around North America. The book contains two sections, an overview and a set of recommendations for the program and synopses, findings, and problems associated with the 23 transects. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Signs of Life: A Report Based on the April 2000 Workshop on Life Detection Techniques SN - DO - 10.17226/10265 PY - 2002 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10265/signs-of-life-a-report-based-on-the-april-2000 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) of the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) and the Space Studies Board (SSB). Topics discussed in the workshop included the search for extraterrestrial life in situ and in the laboratory, extant life and the signature of extinct life, and determination of the point of origin (terrestrial or not) of detected organisms. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Erol Tutumluer TI - Practices for Unbound Aggregate Pavement Layers DO - 10.17226/22469 PY - 2013 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22469/practices-for-unbound-aggregate-pavement-layers PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 445: Practices for Unbound Aggregate Pavement Layers consolidates information on the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice of designing and constructing unbound aggregate pavement layers. The report summarizes effective practices related to material selection, design, and construction of unbound aggregate layers to potentially improve pavement performance and longevity. ER -