New subscription site covers earth & planetary sciences.Elsevier Science (Mew York) has begun the production of Earth.Elsevier.com, a new subscription Web site for researchers and professionals involved in the earth and planetary sciences. Users at institutions with a site license to Elsevier's Science Direct service can access the site. Site licenses and individual subscriptions are also available. Earth.Elsevier is designed to offer access to a range of information products. Updated weekly, the site offers coverage of over 70 journals with links to over 58,000 articles published since 1995. That includes more than 400 books, reference works, serials, and related products produced by Elsevier Science or by sister companies Pergamon, Academic Press, Butterworth Heinemann and Gulf Professional Publishing. The site is divided into "specialist subject sites" covering such topics as atmospheric science, geobiology, geochemistry geochemistry, study of the chemical changes on the earth. More specifically, it is the study of the absolute and relative abundances of chemical elements in the minerals, soils, ores, rocks, water, and atmosphere of the earth and the distribution and movement of , mineral processing mineral processing or ore dressing Mechanical treatment of crude ores to separate the valuable minerals. Mineral processing was at first applied only to ores of precious metals but later came to be used to recover other metals and nonmetallic minerals. , petroleum science, physical geography physical geography: see geography. , ocean sciences and hydrology hydrology, study of water and its properties, including its distribution and movement in and through the land areas of the earth. The hydrologic cycle consists of the passage of water from the oceans into the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration (or . |
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