The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable PlanetHenry Holt and Company, 2000 M03 27 - 250 pages Soil contamination...public lands...surface and groundwater pollution...coastal erosion...global warming. Have we reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If so, what can we do about it? |
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... lands in Callfomia, Idaho, Montana, and Washington. This sparked his interest in public land issues. Currently, he is director of government affairs at the American Geological Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. During the 104th Congress ...
... land here; and some of them end up in laboratories, either because some rock collector recognizes an unusual rock on the ground or because these rocks actually disrupt someone's life by falling through roofs, landing in a herd of cattle ...
... land. Such eruptions are rare, but we certainly have active volcanoes that have the potential to produce them. Volcanologists are challenged to try to understand what the precursors to such rare and large events might be and how we ...
... land was made there had subsisted a world composed ofseo and land, in which were tides and currents, with such operations at the bottom oftbe sea as now take place. And, Lastly, That while the present land wasformlng or the bottom of ...
... land was yet beneath the water of the ocean," he wrote. "Here are three distinct successive periods of existence ... Land, Stories from Land Lauret E. Savoy 2 Set Piece on Geologic Time 27.
Contents
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Part II SCIENTIFIC JUDGMENTS AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 57 |
Part III RESOURCES RECONFIGURED | 121 |
Part IV LOCAL MANIPULATIONS | 197 |
Part V INVENTIVE SOLUTIONS | 255 |
Part VI WHOLE EARTH PERTURBATIONS | 307 |
Part VII GLOBAL PERSPECTlVES | 357 |
Source Notes | 410 |
Index | 443 |