Author : I. D. M. Robertson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Geochemistry
ISBN : 9780643066908
Author : Donald Alexander Berkman
Publisher :
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Kim S. Ely
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Boone Rappaport
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030813886
Approaching the settlement of our Moon from a practical perspective, this book is well suited for space program planners. It addresses a variety of human factor topics involved in colonizing Earth's Moon, including: history, philosophy, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, politics & policy, sociology, and anthropology. Each chapter identifies the complex, interdisciplinary issues of the human factor that arise in the early phases of settlement on the Moon. Besides practical issues, there is some emphasis placed on preserving, protecting, and experiencing the lunar environment across a broad range of occupations, from scientists to soldiers and engineers to construction workers. The book identifies utilitarian and visionary factors that shape human lives on the Moon. It offers recommendations for program planners in the government and commercial sectors and serves as a helpful resource for academic researchers. Together, the coauthors ask and attempt to answer: “How will lunar society be different?”
Author : Piotr Migon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048130557
Physical landscapes are one of the most fascinating facets of our Planet, which tell stories about the evolution of the surface of the Earth. This book provides up-to-date information about the geomorphology of the selected ‘classic’ sites from around the world and shows the variety of geomorphological landscapes as moulded by different sets of processes acting over different timescales, from millions of years to days. The volume is written by nearly fifty geomorphologists from more than twenty countries who for many years have researched some of the unique sceneries on the planet. The thirty six chapters present each continent of the world. They describe landscapes of different origin, so that the reader can learn about the complexity of processes behind the sceneries. This is a useful reference book, linking geomorphology with global initiatives focused on nature conservation.
Author : Jayanta K. Saha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9811042748
The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity. The book highlights their interactions with soil constituents, their toxicity to agro-ecosystem & human health, methodologies of toxicity assessment along with remediation technologies for the polluted land by citing case studies. It gives special emphasis on scenario of soil pollution threats in developing countries and ways to counteract these in low cost ways which have so far been ignored. It also explicitly highlights the need for soil protection policy and identifies its key considerations after analyzing basic functions of soil and the types of threats perceived. This book will be a useful resource for graduate students and researchers in the field of environmental and agricultural sciences, as well as for personnel involved in environmental impact assessment and policy making.
Author : Lubomir I. Simeonov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400702523
Heavy metals can be emitted into environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, mainly mining and industrial activity. Human exposure occurs through all environmental media. Infants are more susceptible to the adverse effects of exposure. Increasing attention is now being paid to the mental development of children exposed to heavy metals. The purpose of this book is to evaluate the existing knowledge on intellectual impairment in children exposed to heavy metals in their living environment and to identify the research needs in order to obtain a clearer picture of the situation in countries and regions at risk, in which the economy is closely related to metallurgy and heavy metals emission, and to recommend a strategy for human protection. In greater detail the main objectives could be formulated as follows: to review the principal sources of single, and complex mixtures of, heavy metal pollutants in the environment; to identify suitable methodology for chemical analyses in the environment and in humans; to evaluate the existing methods for measuring mental impairment, including their reliability and validity; to recommend a standard testing protocol to be used in future research; to assess the future role of environmental heavy metal pollution in countries and regions at risk and its effects on children’s neurological development; to recommend a prevention strategy for protecting children’s health and development.
Author : Khalid Rehman Hakeem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 331934451X
Soil is the most important natural non-renewable resource developed over a longer period of time due to weathering of rocks and subsequently enrichment of organic matter. Soil provides habitat for numerous microorganisms and serves as a natural medium for plant growth, thereby providing the plants with anchorage, nutrients and water to sustain the growth. Soil also serves as a universal sink for all types of pollutants, purifies ground water and is a major reserve of carbon in the universe. The role of soils to provide ecosystem services, maintenance of environmental/human health and ensuring the food security makes it as the most important and basic natural resource. Soil Science helps us to elaborate and understand how the soils provide all these services. Soil Science also provides us the basic knowledge dealing with the origin of the soil parent material, weathering of parent material and the formation of soils, morphological, physico-chemical and biological features of soils, classification of soils and role of soils in the provision and maintenance of ecosystem services, food security and environmental quality. This book encompasses the various processes, functions and behaviour of soils very comprehensively to acquaint the students of soil, plant and environmental sciences about their role to perform different agricultural and environmental functions.
Author : Tom Gleeson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 111916656X
Permeability is the primary control on fluid flow in the Earth’s crust and is key to a surprisingly wide range of geological processes, because it controls the advection of heat and solutes and the generation of anomalous pore pressures. The practical importance of permeability – and the potential for large, dynamic changes in permeability – is highlighted by ongoing issues associated with hydraulic fracturing for hydrocarbon production (“fracking”), enhanced geothermal systems, and geologic carbon sequestration. Although there are thousands of research papers on crustal permeability, this is the first book-length treatment. This book bridges the historical dichotomy between the hydrogeologic perspective of permeability as a static material property and the perspective of other Earth scientists who have long recognized permeability as a dynamic parameter that changes in response to tectonism, fluid production, and geochemical reactions.
Author : Andrew P. J. Bristow
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Geochemical prospecting
ISBN : 9780643067301
The dispersion and solubility of Au and other elements in the regolith, and the nature and distribution of regolith materials has been studied at and around the Golden Delicious deposit near Laverton, Western Australia. The deposit has a resource of 6.1 Mt ~ 1.3 g/t Au hosted by a suite of Archaean granitoids that intrude mafic volcanic and volcaniclastic greenschist host rocks in the southern part of the Laverton tectonic zone. The mineralised and country rocks are deeply weathered, and subsequently partly eroded to the clay zone and upper saprolite. They are now covered by up to 20 m of colluvium - alluvium derived from eroding mafic regolith several km to the ESE. Late-stage hematite mega-mottling has overprinted the upper residual horizons. The entire regolith is saturated with saline, weakly alkaline groundwater below approximately 10 m. Much of the regolith, including the transported overburden, has been extensive modified during arid conditions.se across the deposit have been examined in detail to determine element distributions, their relationship to regolith evolution and their significance in exploration. Elements associated with Au mineralisation were W, Sb, K and REE, though none displayed a very direct correlation with Au. Only Au showed evidence of significant remobilization, the other elements approximating their distribution in the Archaean prior to weathering.
