Resources of the Earth : Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact
Skinner, Brian, Vaughan, David, Craig, James R.
ISBN 10: 0130834106 ISBN 13: 9780130834102
Published by Pearson Education, Limited, 2000
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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.
From the Publisher: A balanced, broad–based, up–to–date presentation of the occurrence, availability, and usage of Earth's mineral resources. Completely updated and expanded, this revision includes greater emphasis on the environment.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Resources of the Earth : Origin, Use, and ...
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 3 Edition.