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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... geologist who has made maps of active faults and other rock structures in the desert southwestern United States . In the eastern United States her interest in environmental contamination and remediation led her to work on problems of ...
... Geologists tend to be world travelers because of the nature of our science . Thus , our perspective on spatially rare features should carry different weight than the perspective of someone who has not traveled so widely . For example ...
... whole planet , causing the extinction of many species , including dinosaurs . By studying the numbers , sizes , and ages of craters on the Earth and other planets , geologists in the field of 6 PART I Records of Time and History.
Maintaining A Livable Planet Jill Schneiderman. Earth and other planets , geologists in the field of planetary sciences are able to make measurements and models of how often meteoroids of different sizes impact the Earth . We also can go ...
... geologist - explorer John Wesley Powell , became one of the most formidable rapids on the Colorado . There are many tributaries draining into the Colorado ; and over hundreds of thousands of years , they all have had multiple flash ...
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 |