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9780130834102

Resources of the Earth Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact

Resources of the Earth Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact
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  • ISBN-13: 9780130834102
  • ISBN: 0130834106
  • Edition: 3
  • Publication Date: 2001
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR

AUTHOR

Craig, James R., Vaughan, David, Skinner, Brian

SUMMARY

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.Craig, James R. is the author of 'Resources of the Earth Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact', published 2001 under ISBN 9780130834102 and ISBN 0130834106.

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