Resources of the Earth: Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact (3rd Edition)
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Book Description
Extensively illustrated, balanced, broad-based, and up-to-date, this book explores the nature and critical issues of all major types of earth resources--energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil--and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. It provides geologic background of resource formation and occurrence of most of the various types of resources; offers an international perspective; discusses resources not only from the scientific point of view, but also from the point of economic, political, historical considerations; and considers how the extraction and use of the resources creates impacts--local or global, immediate or delayed, visible or invisible, singular or cumulative. Minerals: The Foundations of Society. Plate Tectonics and The Origins of Mineral Resources. Earth's Resources Through History. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use. Energy from Fossil Fuels. Nuclear Power and Alternative Energy Sources. Abundant Metals. The Geochemically Scare Metals. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals. Water Resources. Soil as a Resource. Future Resources. For anyone interested in earth resources.
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(Pearson Education) A textbook on the Earth's natural resources, offering an updated discussion of minerals and their use in the 21st century. Also offers Web resources to accompany the text, and discusses important issues related to energy, resource conservation, and the effects of human activity on the environment. Previous edition: c1998. DLC: Natural resources.
Resources of the Earth: Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact (3rd Edition)
Resources of the Earth: Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact (3rd Edition),James R. Craig,David J. Vaughan,Brian J. Skinner,David Vaughan,Prentice Hall,0130834106,Conservation Of Natural Resources (General),Earth Sciences - Geology,Ecology,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Geology,Environmental Science,Environmental policy,Natural Resources,Nature,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / Geology
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