Extensively illustrated, balanced, broad–based, and up–to–date, this book explores the nature and critical issues of all major types of earth resources--energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil--and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. It provides geologic background of resource formation and occurrence of most of the various types of resources; offers an international perspective; discusses resources not only from the scientific point of view, but also from the point of economic, political, historical considerations; and considers how the extraction and use of the resources creates impacts--local or global, immediate or delayed, visible or invisible, singular or cumulative. Minerals: The Foundations of Society. Plate Tectonics and The Origins of Mineral Resources. Earth's Resources Through History. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use. Energy from Fossil Fuels. Nuclear Power and Alternative Energy Sources. Abundant Metals. The Geochemically Scare Metals. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals. Water Resources. Soil as a Resource. Future Resources. For anyone interested in earth resources.

Resources of the Earth: Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact

Science & Math

Skinner, Brian J.

Vaughan, David J.

Craig, James R.

Biological Sciences

Pearson College Div

This work is based on the observation that further major advances in geochemistry, particularly in understanding the rules that govern the ways in which elements come together to form minerals and rocks, will require the application of the theories of quantum mechanics. The book therefore outlines this theoretical background and discusses the models used to describe bonding in geochemical systems. It is the first book to describe and critically review the application of quantum mechanical theories to minerals and geochemical systems. The book consolidates valuable findings from chemistry and materials science as well as mineralogy and geochemistry, and the presentation has relevance to professionals in a wide range of disciplines. Experimental techniques are surveyed, but the emphasis is on applying theoretical tools to various groups of minerals: the oxides, silicates, carbonates, borates, and sulfides. Other topics dealt with in depth include structure, stereochemistry, bond strengths and stabilities of minerals, various physical properties, and the overall geochemical distribution of the elements.

Theoretical Geochemistry: Applications of Quantum Mechanics in the Earth and Mineral Sciences

Business & Money

Tossell, John A.

Economics

Oxford University Press

Provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject of ore microscopy, emphasizing the basic skills required for the study of opaque minerals in polished sections. Describes the modern ore microscope, the preparation of polished and polished-thin sections of opaque minerals and ores, and the identification of these minerals using both qualitative techniques and the quantitative methods of reflectance and microhardness measurement. Later sections discuss the interpretation of textural intergrowths of ore minerals and the determination of their paragenesis, along with the examination of coexisting minerals for determining their physio-chemical conditions of formation. Appendices contain the data necessary to identify approximately 100 of the more common ore minerals and those frequently encountered by the professional scientist.

Ore Microscopy and Ore Petrography

Earth Sciences

wiley

Covers basic techniques of sample preparation and examination, qualitative properties used for mineral identification and textures. Provides numerous examples of the major mineral associations. This text is updated to reflect new technical and theoretical developments and new data on the most important ore types. Tables of data for identification of the most common ore minerals are provided in the appendices.

Wiley-Interscience

Provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject of ore microscopy, emphasizing the basic skills required for the study of opaque minerals in polished sections. Describes the modern ore microscope, the preparation of polished and polished-thin sections of opaque minerals and ores, and the identification of these minerals using both qualitative techniques and the quantitative methods of reflectance and microhardness measurement. Later sections discuss the interpretation of textural intergrowths of ore minerals and the determination of their paragenesis, along with the examination of coexisting minerals for determining their physio-chemical conditions of formation. Appendices contain the data necessary to identify approximately 100 of the more common ore minerals and those frequently encountered by the professional scientist.

Ore Microscopy

John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Mineral Chemistry of Metal Sulfides (Cambridge Earth Science Series)

Cambridge University Press

Saxons of Old Sarum Buried Alive! * The Plague pits of Salisbury! * Cathedral organist intent on Murder! * The book bound in Human Skin! * Locked in a Cage with criminal lunatics! * A Monocled Killer! Salisbury has one of the most gruesome histories on record. Human remains filled its barrows, its nobles were tortured, its witches hanged and a deadly disease once lurked in its murky waters. There was no safety in its inns either, for one was plagued with suicides and another hid a severed hand. Even the introduction of the railways led to death and destruction. With more than sixty illustrations, hundreds of years of terrible true history are waiting for you inside this book!

Bloody British History Salisbury (Bloody History)

History

Europe

The History Press

A Spiritual Giant in a Day When Spirituality Was Highly Prized [series logo] Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) became the pastor of the church at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1724. His powerful preaching launched the Great Awakening in 1734-35 and a geographically more extensive revival in 1740-41. He became a firm friend of George Whitefield, then evangelizing in America, who continued to promote the revival. Edwards was called to the presidency of the then nascent Princeton College shortly before his death. Edwards was the most prominent American philosopher-theologian of his time. He is best known for contributing a vast body of writings to the evangelical community on not only theological issues, many of which still challenge scholars, but also metaphysics, ethics, and psychology. His influence is felt today through his works and godly example. THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A BRILLIANT THEOLOGIAN WHOSE HEART WAS NOT SEPARATED FROM HIS HEAD

Jonathan Edwards (Men of Faith)

Christian Books & Bibles

Theology

Bethany House Pub

Jonathan Edwards's powerful preaching launched the Great Awakening in 1734 to 1735. He is best known for his vast body of evangelical writings, not only on theological issues, but also on metaphysics, ethics, and psychology.

Jonathan Edwards: Library Edition

Religion & Spirituality

Blackstone Pub

Volume 61 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry presents an up-to-date review of sulfide mineralogy and geochemistry. The crystal structures, electrical and magnetic properties, spectroscopic studies, chemical bonding, thermochemistry, phase relations, solution chemistry, surface structure and chemistry, hydrothermal precipitation processes, sulfur isotope geochemistry and geobiology of metal sulfides are reviewed. Where it is appropriate for comparison, there is brief discussion of the selenide or telluride analogs of the metal sulfides. When discussing crystal structures and structural relationships, the sulfosalt minerals as well as the sulfides are considered in some detail.

Sulfide Mineralogy and Geochemistry (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 61)

Walter de Gruyter

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Resources of the Earth: Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact

Theoretical Geochemistry: Applications of Quantum Mechanics in the Earth and Mineral Sciences

Ore Microscopy and Ore Petrography

Ore Microscopy and Ore Petrography

Ore Microscopy

Mineral Chemistry of Metal Sulfides (Cambridge Earth Science Series)

Bloody British History Salisbury (Bloody History)

Jonathan Edwards (Men of Faith)

Jonathan Edwards: Library Edition

Sulfide Mineralogy and Geochemistry (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 61)