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Environmental Geology
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  • Authored by: Jon Erickson; Foreword by Peter D. Moore, Ph.D.
  • From the Series: Living Earth
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  • ISBN-10: 1438109636
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-4381-0963-3
  • Status: In Stock
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  • Imprint: Facts On File
  • Published: 07/01/2002
  • Dewey Number: 550
  • Reading Level: Grades 6-12
  • Pages: 320

Summary

Helping readers to understand the hopes and the hazards facing humankind by learning more about the causes and the consequences of environmental change, Environmental Geology is a valuable guide to an exciting and relatively new science that deals with the relationship between people and their geologic environment.

Chapter by chapter, this volume details the many ways man-made and natural forces have brought about serious—and in some cases, irreversible—damage to the earth, including:

  • Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect
  • Hydrologic Activity: Water Flow and Flooding
  • Coastal Processes: Seacoasts and Estuaries
  • Tectonic Hazards: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
  • Desertification: Deserts and Droughts
  • Natural Resources: Depletion of Industrial Materials
  • Land Use: The Changing Landscape.

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