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Balanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. The authors offer full coverage of all major types of earth resources—energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil. A minimal scientific background is assumed.



Table of Contents
1. Minerals: The Foundations of Society
2. Plate Tectonics and the Origins of Resources
3. Earth Resources Through History
4. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use
5. Energy From Fossil Fuels
6. Nuclear and Renewable Energy Sources
7. Abundant Metals
8. The Geochemically Scarce Metals
9. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals
10. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals
11. Water Resources
12. Soil as a Resource
13. Future Resources

Earth Resources and the Environment

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    A Paperback by James R. Craig, David Vaughan, Brian Skinner

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      Publisher Pearson Education
      Published 11 August 2013
      ISBN-13 9781292040998
      978-1292040998
      ISBN-10 1292040998
      Also in:
      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Earth sciences Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Balanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. The authors offer full coverage of all major types of earth resources—energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil. A minimal scientific background is assumed.



      Table of Contents
      1. Minerals: The Foundations of Society
      2. Plate Tectonics and the Origins of Resources
      3. Earth Resources Through History
      4. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use
      5. Energy From Fossil Fuels
      6. Nuclear and Renewable Energy Sources
      7. Abundant Metals
      8. The Geochemically Scarce Metals
      9. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals
      10. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals
      11. Water Resources
      12. Soil as a Resource
      13. Future Resources

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