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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... surface waters, and coasts. In the fourth portion, essayists tell true stories about construction projects that defy geological sense. As a hopeful counterpoint to them, the essays in Part V detail geologically aware, innovative thought ...
... surface water, and the oceans. The effects of urbanization on aquifers particularly concern him. He is presently an associate professor in the department of geological sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Paul R. Bierman is a ...
... [surface-shaping) processes, landforms, and biotic properties of ecosystems. For many years as a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, E-an Zen studied Appalachian and Rocky Mountain geology. the origin of metamorphic and igneous ...
... surface and are therefore spatially rare. Large eruptions are rare in time because volcanoes need to recharge heat in order to melt rock and form magma that will erupt. Some volcanoes recharge and erupt in a relatively balanced way ...
... surface and its depths and look back in time. We can bring that vision to bear on present problems around the Earth and those in the foreseeable future. With this way of considering the world, geological knowledge can elucidate the ...
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 |