Deposit and Geoenvironmental Models for Resource Exploitation and Environmental Security
Deposit and Geoenvironmental Models for Resource Exploitation and Environmental Security

Author: Andrea G. Fabbri

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9401003033

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Geological processes affect the earth itself and human society. Solutions to geological problems, whether natural or man-made, demand close international collaboration. This book presents new approaches to current problems of environmental assessment, demonstrates the interactions between those involved in addressing global problems, and represents a means for the education of others. The book focuses on four major themes: geoenvironmental models, GIS methods and techniques, assessment and resource management, and resource policies and sustainable development. The major topics falling under each theme are introduced, followed by discussions of specific applications. Reports of the discussions of working groups are also presented to round out the individual contributions. The disciplines represented include geology, geophysics, geochemistry, remote sensing, economics, biology, mining engineering, resource analysis, mathematics and statistics.

Drift Exploration in Glaciated Terrain
Drift Exploration in Glaciated Terrain

Author: Geological Society of London

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781862390829

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This volume describes the use of till geochemical and indicator mineral methods for mineral exploration in the glaciated terrain of Canada. The principles and examples described in this volume will have direct applications for exploration companies looking for diamonds, precious and base metals and uranium in glaciated parts of North America, northern Europe and Asia and mountainous regions of South America.

Essential Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing
Essential Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing

Author: Jian Guo Liu

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 1118687973

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Essential Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing is an accessible overview of the subject and successfully draws together these three key areas in a balanced and comprehensive manner. The book provides an overview of essential techniques and a selection of key case studies in a variety of application areas. Key concepts and ideas are introduced in a clear and logical manner and described through the provision of numerous relevant conceptual illustrations. Mathematical detail is kept to a minimum and only referred to where necessary for ease of understanding. Such concepts are explained through common sense terms rather than in rigorous mathematical detail when explaining image processing and GIS techniques, to enable students to grasp the essentials of a notoriously challenging subject area. The book is clearly divided into three parts, with the first part introducing essential image processing techniques for remote sensing. The second part looks at GIS and begins with an overview of the concepts, structures and mechanisms by which GIS operates. Finally the third part introduces Remote Sensing Applications. Throughout the book the relationships between GIS, Image Processing and Remote Sensing are clearly identified to ensure that students are able to apply the various techniques that have been covered appropriately. The latter chapters use numerous relevant case studies to illustrate various remote sensing, image processing and GIS applications in practice.

The Precambrian Earth
The Precambrian Earth

Author: P.G. Eriksson

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2004-03-04

Total Pages: 967

ISBN-13: 008054259X

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In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.e. non-applied) topics in Precambrian geology in a non-partisan way, by using a large team of international authors to present their datasets and highly divergent viewpoints. The chapters address: celestial origins of Earth and succeeding extraterrestrial impact events; generation of continental crust and the greenstone-granite debate; the interaction of mantle plumes and plate tectonics over Precambrian time; Precambrian volcanism, emphasising komatiite research; evolution and models for Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere; evolution of life and its influence on Precambrian ocean chemistry and chemical sedimentation; sedimentation through Precambrian time; the application of sequence stratigraphy to the Precambrian rock record. Each topic is introduced and a non-partisan closing commentary provided at the end of each chapter. The final chapter blends the major geological events and rates at which important processes occurred into a synthesis, which postulates a number of "event clusters" in the Precambrian when significant changes occurred in many natural systems and geological environments. Also available in paperback, ISBN: 0-444-51509-7

Solid Waste: Assessment, Monitoring and Remediation
Solid Waste: Assessment, Monitoring and Remediation

Author: I. Twardowska

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2004-04-22

Total Pages: 1161

ISBN-13: 008054147X

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This book covers a broad group of wastes, from biowaste to hazardous waste, but primarily the largest (by mass and volume) group of wastes that are not hazardous, but also are not inert, and are problematic for three major reasons: (1) they are difficult to manage because of their volume: usually they are used in civil engineering as a common fill etc., where they are exposed to environmental conditions almost the same way as at disposal sites; (2) they are not geochemically stable and in the different periods of environmental exposure undergo transformations that might add hazardous properties to the material that are not displayed when it is freshly generated; (3) many designers and researchers in different countries involved in waste management are often not aware of time-delayed adverse environmental impact of some large-volume waste, and also do not consider some positive properties that may extend the area of their environmentally beneficial application.

Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research (Online) no. 2002-C25
Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research (Online) no. 2002-C25

Author: David Corrigan

Publisher: Natural Resources Canada

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13: 0660187450

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This paper reports on the first field season of a new initiative designed to provide a regional tectonostratigraphic context for supracrustal & plutonic rocks that form the northern flank of the Trans-Hudson Orogen internides. It reviews the regional geology of the Lynn Lake belt area of northern Manitoba, then presents results of potential tectonostratigraphic correlations with the Reindeer Lake area of Saskatchewan as well as descriptions of supracrustal rocks in the Southern Indian Domain (Pukatawakan Bay and Missi Falls-Partridge Breast Lake areas). The final section assesses the economic potential of the study area.