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Metals and Society
In the second edition Steve Kesler (University of Michigan) has been added as an author to rewrite some chapters. The motivation for this revised edition is to more intensively address economic issues that surround the exploitation of mineral resources. This emphasis gives the book a unique character. With these sections Metals and Society deals with issues that pervade much of current science reporting – the rate of exploitation of natural resources, the question of when or if these resources will be exhausted, the pollution and social disturbance that accompanies mining, the compromises and challenges that arise from the explosion of demand from China, India and other rapidly developing countries, and the moral issues that surround mining of metals in lesser developed countries for consumption in the “first-world” countries. With its dual character, the book will be useful as an introductory text for students in the earth sciences and a reference volume for students, teachers and researchers of geography, economics and the social sciences.
Zinc for Coin and Brass
Hailian Chen’s pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc—an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity—over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China into an emerging global economy, than has previously been recognized. Using commodity chain analysis and exploring over 5,800 items of archival documents, Chen demonstrates how this metal was produced, transported, traded, and consumed by human agents. Situating the zinc story within the human-environment framework, this book covers a broad and interdisciplinary range of political economy, material culture, environment, technology, and society, which casts new light on our understanding of early modern China.
Layered Intrusions
This edited work contains the most recent advances related to the study of layered intrusions and cumulate rocks formation. The first part of this book presents reviews and new views of processes producing the textural, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of layered igneous rocks. The second part summarizes progress in the study of selected layered intrusions and their ore deposits from different parts of the world including Canada, Southwest China, Greenland and South Africa. Thirty experts have contributed to this update on recent research on Layered Intrusions. This highly informative book will provide insight for researchers with an interest in geology, igneous petrology, geochemistry and mineral resources.
Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction
Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more than 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era. In Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction, George R. McGhee Jr. explores that ancient world, explaining its origins; its downfall in the end-Permian mass extinction, the greatest biodiversity crisis to occur since the evolution of animal life on Earth; and how its legacies still affect us today. McGhee investigates the consequences of the Late Paleozoic ice age in...
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Volcanism and Global Environmental Change
Covering a key connection between geological processes and life on Earth, this multidisciplinary volume describes the effects of volcanism on the environment by combining present-day observations of volcanism and environmental changes with information from past eruptions preserved in the geologic record. The book discusses the origins, features and timing of volumetrically large volcanic eruptions; methods for assessing gas and tephra release in the modern day and the palaeo-record; and the impacts of volcanic gases and aerosols on the environment, from ozone depletion to mass extinctions. The significant advances that have been made in recent years in quantifying and understanding the impacts of present and past volcanic eruptions are presented and review chapters are included, making this a valuable book for academic researchers and graduate students in volcanology, climate science, palaeontology, atmospheric chemistry, and igneous petrology.
Ressources minérales - 2e éd.
Cet ouvrage est destiné aux étudiants en licence 3 ou en Master de Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers. Il s’adresse également à toutes personnes intéressées par la géopolitique et la prospective économique, car les gisements miniers tout comme les champs pétrolifères sont stratégiques. Ce cours traite de la nature et de l’origine des gisements, mais aussi de comment, où, et pourquoi les substances minérales sont utilisées. Il décrit ce qui distingue les différents gisements miniers et donne aussi les connaissances préalables sur les aspects commerciaux des opérations minières et sur les échanges mondiaux des matières minérales. Des exercices et des problèmes corrigés complètent le cours. Ils abordent des questions actuelles comme : la gestion des ressources, le développement durable et les atteintes à l’environnement. Dans cette seconde édition, mise à jour, le chapitre sur les dépôts hydrothermaux a été enrichi.
Copper in Ancient Egypt
The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what we know about the use of copper by the ancient Egyptians and Nubians, from the Predynastic through the Early Dynastic until the end of the Second Intermediate Period (c. 4000-1600 BC). The monograph presents a story, based on the analysis of available evidence, a synchronic and diachronic reconstruction of the development and changes of the chaîne opératoire of copper and copper alloy artefacts. The book argues that Egypt was not isolated from the rest of the ancient world and that popular notions of its "primitive" technology are not based on facts.
Ressources minérales
Cet ouvrage est destiné aux étudiants en licence 3 ou en Master de Sciences de la Terre et de l'Univers. II s'adresse également à toutes personnes intéressées par la géopolitique et la prospective économique, car les gisements miniers tout comme les champs pétrolifères sont stratégiques. Ce cours traite de la nature et de l'origine des gisements, mais aussi de comment, où, et pourquoi les substances minérales sont utilisées. Il décrit ce qui distingue les différents gisements miniers et donne aussi les connaissances préalables sur les aspects commerciaux des opérations minières et sur les échanges mondiaux des matières minérales. Des exercices et des problèmes corrigés complètent le cours. Ils abordent des questions actuelles comme : la gestion des ressources, le développement durable et les atteintes à l'environnement.
