Author: Donald C. Duncan
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Organic-rich Shale of the United States and World Land Areas
Author: Donald C. Duncan
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Geological Survey Circular
Author:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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The American West at Risk
Author: Howard G. Wilshire
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199881669
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199881669
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.
Energy in America's Future
Author: Sam H. Schurr
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135985812
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Results of a comprehensive two-year study analyzing the facts and policy alternatives. Originally published in 1979.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135985812
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Results of a comprehensive two-year study analyzing the facts and policy alternatives. Originally published in 1979.
Geology and Geochemistry of Gold Deposits of the Big Canyon Area, El Dorado County, California
Author: John Thomas Nash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chert
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Chert
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Availability of Critical Scrap Metals Containing Chromium in the United States
Author: LeRoy R. Curwick
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Category : Chromium
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chromium
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
National Gas Survey
Author: United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Technical Advisory Committee on Finance
Publisher:
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Category : Natural gas
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Natural gas
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
National Gas Survey
Author: United States. Federal Power Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Gas companies
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas companies
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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