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Environmental Geology

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 2 Acidic precipitation, sources to effects
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    Chapter 3 acidity Acidity
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    Chapter 4 Acid lakes and rivers
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    Chapter 5 Aerosols
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    Chapter 6 Agricultural impact on environment
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    Chapter 7 agroforestry Agroforestry
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    Chapter 8 Air pollution
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    Chapter 9 Albedo
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    Chapter 10 Algal pollution of seas and beaches
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    Chapter 11 Alkalinity
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    Chapter 13 Ambient air and water standards
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    Chapter 15 ANAXAGORAS (c. 500–428 bc)
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    Chapter 19 aquifer recharge Aquifer
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    Chapter 21 Arid zone management and problems
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    Chapter 23 Arsenic pollution and toxicity
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    Chapter 24 Atmosphere
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    Chapter 25 Audubon, John James (1785–1851)
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    Chapter 26 Bacteria
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    Chapter 27 Barrier beaches and Barrier islands
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    Chapter 28 Beaches
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    Chapter 30 Benthos
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    Chapter 31 Bioaccumulation, bioconcentration, biomagnification
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    Chapter 32 Bioassay
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    Chapter 34 Biochemical oxygen demand
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    Chapter 35 Biogeography
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    Chapter 38 Bioregionalism
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    Chapter 44 Budgets, energy and mass
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    Chapter 45 Cadmium pollution and toxicity
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    Chapter 46 Carbon cycle
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    Chapter 47 carbon-14 dating radiocarbon method Carbon-14 dating
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    Chapter 48 Carnivore
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    Chapter 49 Carrying capacity
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    Chapter 50 Carson, rachel louise (1907–1964)
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    Chapter 51 Catastrophism
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    Chapter 52 Cave environments
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    Chapter 53 Chaparral (maquis)
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    Chapter 55 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
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    Chapter 57 Climatic modeling
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    Chapter 59 Coastal erosion and protection
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    Chapter 63 Conventions for environmental protection
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    Chapter 65 Cost—benefit analysis
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    Chapter 66 Critical load
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    Chapter 67 Cumulative environmental impacts
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    Chapter 68 Cycles, climatic
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    Chapter 69 Cycles, geochemical
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    Chapter 70 Dams and their reservoirs
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    Chapter 72 Debt-for-nature swap
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    Chapter 73 Deforestation
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    Chapter 74 Demography, ecological
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    Chapter 76 Dendrochronology
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    Chapter 78 Desalination
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    Chapter 80 Deserts
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    Chapter 82 Disaster
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    Chapter 84 drought, hydrological Drought , impacts and management
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    Chapter 85 Earth, planet (global perspective)
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    Chapter 86 Earthquake prediction
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    Chapter 87 Earthquakes, damage and its mitigation
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    Chapter 88 Earth resources
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    Chapter 89 Eco-labeling
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    Chapter 90 Ecological engineering
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    Chapter 91 Ecological modeling
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    Chapter 93 Ecological regions (ecoregions)
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    Chapter 97 Ecosystem-based land-use planning
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    Chapter 99 Ecosystem metabolism
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    Chapter 101 Ecotourism
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    Chapter 102 Edapholog
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    Chapter 103 Effluent standards
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    Chapter 104 El Niño–Southern Oscillation El niÑo-southern oscillation (ENSO)
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    Chapter 105 Emission standards
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    Chapter 106 Endangered species
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    Chapter 110 Environmental aesthetics
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    Chapter 111 Environmental audit
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    Chapter 116 Environmental ethics
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    Chapter 117 Environmental impact assessment (eia), statement (eis)
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    Chapter 118 Environmental law
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    Chapter 119 Environmental litigation
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    Chapter 120 Environmental perception
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    Chapter 122 Environmental protection agencies
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    Chapter 123 Environmental psychology
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    Chapter 124 Environmental science
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    Chapter 125 Environmental security
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    Chapter 126 Environmental stability stability
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    Chapter 130 Eutrophication
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    Chapter 132 Evolution, natural selection natural selection
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    Chapter 134 Extinction
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    Chapter 135 Fertilizer
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    Chapter 136 Fisheries management
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    Chapter 137 Floods, flood mitigation
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    Chapter 138 Food webs and chains
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    Chapter 139 Forest management
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    Chapter 141 Francis of assisi, saint (1181–1226)
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    Chapter 142 Fuelwood
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    Chapter 143 Fungi, fungicides
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    Chapter 144 Gaia hypothesis
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    Chapter 145 Gases, industrial
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    Chapter 146 Gases, volcanic
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    Chapter 149 Geoarcheology and ancient environments
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    Chapter 151 Geographic information systems
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    Chapter 153 Geologic time scale
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    Chapter 155 Geothermal energy resources
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    Chapter 157 Glaciers, glaciology
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    Chapter 161 Grass, grassland, savanna
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    Chapter 162 greenhouse effect Greenhouse effect
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    Chapter 163 Groundwater
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    Chapter 164 Guilds
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    Chapter 165 Habitat and habitat destruction
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    Chapter 166 Hazardous materials transportation and accidents
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    Chapter 167 Hazardous waste
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    Chapter 169 Heavy metal pollutants
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    Chapter 170 Herbicides, defoliants
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    Chapter 171 Herbivores
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    Chapter 172 Herpetology
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    Chapter 173 Highways, environmental impact
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    Chapter 175 Homosphere
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    Chapter 177 Human ecology (cultural ecology)
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    Chapter 179 Huxley, Julian Sorell (1887–1975)
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    Chapter 181 Hydroelectric developments, environmental impact
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    Chapter 183 Hydrological cycle
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    Chapter 185 Hydrosphere
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    Chapter 186 Ice ages
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    Chapter 187 Incineration of waste products
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    Chapter 188 Information technology and the internet
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    Chapter 189 International organizations
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    Chapter 190 Irrigation
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    Chapter 191 Island biogeography biogeography
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    Chapter 193 Lakes, lacustrine processes, limnology
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    Chapter 195 Landfill; leachates, landfill gases
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    Chapter 197 Land evaluation, suitability analysis
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    Chapter 199 Landscape ecology
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    Chapter 200 Landslides
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    Chapter 202 Land tenure
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    Chapter 206 Leopold, aldo(1887–1948)
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    Chapter 207 Lesley, joseph peter (1819–1903)
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    Chapter 208 Lichens, lichenometry
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    Chapter 209 life zone Life zone
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    Chapter 210 Linnaeus, Carl Linnaeus, carl (1707–78)
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    Chapter 211 Lysenko, trofim denisovich (1898–1976)
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    Chapter 212 Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)
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    Chapter 213 Malthusian doctrine
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    Chapter 214 Mangroves
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    Chapter 215 Marine pollution pollution
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    Chapter 216 Marsh, George Perkins (1801–82)
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    Chapter 217 Marsh gas (methane)
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    Chapter 218 Medical geography
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    Chapter 220 Metal toxicity
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    Chapter 221 Meteorology
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    Chapter 222 Microclimate
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    Chapter 224 Miller, Hugh (1802–56)
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    Chapter 226 Mine wastes
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    Chapter 228 Muir, John (1838–1914)
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    Chapter 229 National parks parks and preserves
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    Chapter 230 Natural hazards
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    Chapter 231 Natural resources
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    Chapter 233 Nitrates
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    Chapter 234 Nitrogen cycle
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    Chapter 235 Nonrenewable resources
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    Chapter 236 Noosphere
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    Chapter 238 Nuclear winter, possible environmental effects
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    Chapter 239 Oceanography
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    Chapter 240 Ocean waste disposal
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    Chapter 241 Off-the-road vehicles (orvs), environmental impact
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    Chapter 243 Oil spills: containment and clean-up
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    Chapter 245 Organic chemicals
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    Chapter 247 Ornithology
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    Chapter 249 Ozone
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    Chapter 251 Particulate matter
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    Chapter 252 Pathogen indicators
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    Chapter 256 Pesticides, insecticides
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    Chapter 258 Phosphorus, phosphates
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    Chapter 259 Photosynthesis
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    Chapter 260 Pinchot, Gifford (1865–1946)
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    Chapter 261 Pollution, nature of
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    Chapter 262 Pollution, scientific aspects
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    Chapter 263 Pollution prevention
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    Chapter 264 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
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    Chapter 265 Potable water water
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    Chapter 266 Precautionary principle
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    Chapter 269 Quickclay, quicksand
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    Chapter 270 Radiation balance
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    Chapter 271 Radioisotopes, radionuclides
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    Chapter 272 Radon hazards
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    Chapter 273 Ramenski, leonti grogor'evich (1884–1953)
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    Chapter 274 Ramsar convention
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    Chapter 275 Raw materials
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    Chapter 276 Recreation, ecological impacts
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    Chapter 277 Regolith
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    Chapter 278 Remote sensing (environmental)
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    Chapter 280 Restoration of ecosystems and their sites
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    Chapter 282 Risk assessment
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    Chapter 284 Rivers and streams
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    Chapter 287 SALINE ( salt Salt ) Flats, marshes, waters
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    Chapter 289 Sand and gravel resources
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    Chapter 291 Satellites, earth resources, meteorological
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    Chapter 293 Scott, Sir Peter Markham (1909–89)
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    Chapter 294 Sea—level change
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    Chapter 295 Secondary production
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    Chapter 296 Sediment, sedimentation
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    Chapter 297 Sediment pollution
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    Chapter 298 Seismology, seismic activity
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    Chapter 299 Selenium pollution
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    Chapter 300 Semi-arid climates and terrain
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    Chapter 301 Septic tank
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    Chapter 302 Sewage sludge
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    Chapter 303 Sewage treatment
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    Chapter 304 Slope
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    Chapter 305 Smog
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    Chapter 306 Soil
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    Chapter 307 Soil biology and ecology
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    Chapter 308 Soil conservation
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    Chapter 309 Soil erosion
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    Chapter 311 Solar cycle
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    Chapter 312 Solar energy energy
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    Chapter 313 Solid waste waste
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    Chapter 315 Steppe
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    Chapter 317 Sunspots: Environmental influence
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    Chapter 321 Systems analysis
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    Chapter 322 Taiga
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    Chapter 323 Tansley, sir arthur george (1871–1955)
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    Chapter 324 Teilhard de chardin, pierre (1881–1955)
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    Chapter 325 Thermal pollution
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    Chapter 326 Thermokarst
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    Chapter 327 Tidal and wave power
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    Chapter 328 Tragedy of the Commons
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    Chapter 329 Transfrontier water pollution pollution and its control
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    Chapter 331 Tropical forests
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    Chapter 334 Tundra, Arctic and Antarctic
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    Chapter 335 Underground storage and disposal of nuclear waste
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    Chapter 336 United nations conference on environment and development (unced)
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    Chapter 337 United nations environment programme (unep)
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    Chapter 338 United states, federal agencies and pollution control control
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    Chapter 339 Urban climate
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    Chapter 340 Urban ecology
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    Chapter 341 Urban geology
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    Chapter 342 Urbanization, urban problems
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    Chapter 343 Vadose waters
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    Chapter 344 Vegetational succession, climax
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    Chapter 345 Vernadsky, vladimir ivanovich (1863–1945)
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    Chapter 347 Volcanoes, impacts on ecosystems
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    Chapter 349 Von humboldt, alexander (1769–1859)
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    Chapter 351 Vulnerability
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    Chapter 352 Wadis (arroyos)
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    Chapter 353 Wallace, alfred russel (1823–1913)
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    Chapter 356 Ward, barbara mary (1914–81)
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    Chapter 357 Wastes, waste disposal
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    Chapter 359 Water-borne diseases
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    Chapter 362 Weather modification
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    Chapter 363 Weathering
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    Chapter 364 Wetlands
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    Chapter 365 White, gilbert (1720–93)
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    Chapter 366 Wilderness
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    Chapter 367 Wildfire, forest fire, grass fire
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    Chapter 369 Wind energy
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    Chapter 371 Xerophyte
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    Chapter 372 Zeuner, frederick everard (1905–63)
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    Chapter 373 Zones, climatic
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    Chapter 374 Zoning regulations
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Title
Environmental Geology
Published by
Springer Netherlands, September 2006
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-4494-1
ISBNs
978-0-412-74050-3, 978-1-4020-4494-6
Authors/Editors

D.E. Alexander, Rhodes W. Fairbridge

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Country Count As %
Brazil 1 11%
Unknown 8 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 22%
Researcher 2 22%
Lecturer 1 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 11%
Professor 1 11%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 3 33%
Social Sciences 2 22%
Arts and Humanities 1 11%
Engineering 1 11%
Unknown 2 22%