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Environmental Geology Laboratory
Environmental Geology Laboratory
Tom Freeman, University of Missouri
ISBN: 978-0-471-47198-1
©2004
328 pages
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Table of Contents
1. Plate Tectonics - Origins of Earth's major features.

2. Maps - history, applications and technology.

3. Minerals - the asbestos issue and other industrial areas.

4. Igneous Rocks - and plate tectonic cettings of volcanoes.

5. Sedimentary Rocks - and charting ancient lands and seas.

6. Metamorphic Rocks - and mapping ancient lands and seas.

7. Weathering - and soils and human geography.

8. Slopes and Subsidence - 'liquid earth' and the greatest disasters.

9. Streams and Rivers - and floods and storm waters

10. Groundwater - a resource...but troublesome.

11. Waste and Water - hand-in-hand.

12. Selenium Contamination - a 'rocks-to-ducks' case history.

13. Hazardous Waste - the forever of radioactivity.

14. Atmosphere and Oceans - an inextricable linkage.

15. Coastal Processes and Problems - loving our coasts to death.

16. Geological Structures and Maps - the fabric of Earth's crust.

17. Earthquakes - the why, where, and severity.

18. Landscape Geology - stories behind scenery (glaciers and deserts).

19. Population Dynamics - the threat of exponential growth.  


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