Each book in ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE AND GLOBAL WARMING explores key concepts and issues related to energy availability, production and-use and explains the impact of energy use on global climate. The eight volumes feature easy-to-read text accessible to a wide range of students, vivid photos, and clear easy-to-understand illustrations and diagrams. T…
Geothermal Energy: An Alternative Resource for the 21st Century provides a readable coherent account of all facets of geothernal energy development and summarizes the present day know ledge on geothermal resources, their exploration. Accounts of geothermal resource models, various exploration techniques,drilling and production technology are discuss…
Environmental geochemistry: Site characterization,Data Analysis, Case Histories is designed to inform the environmental student and professionals about the philosophy and the and the procedure to follow for sampling different environmental media,for making quality control of analyses,for statistically evaluating the impact of recycling sewage sludge…
Mining and sustainable development might appear to be incompatible objectives, yat mining generates primary wealth as well as essential materials for society. Key question in relation to mining's contribution to sustainable development, as opposed to simple economic development, are: Is the wealth generated by mining invested in sustainable outcomes…
This volume comprises more than forty papers presented at the Fifth International Geochemical Exploration Symposium held in Vancouver, Canada, April 1974. Although it is the fifth geochemical exploration symposium volume to be published since the original meeting was held in Ottawa in 1966, it is the first to be prepared under the auspices of the As…
Nuclear methods now provide the basis for rapid identification of about two-thirds of the earth's naturally occurring chemical elements. The broad application of these techniques to exploration and production of minerals has been slow in developing. This unfortunate state of affairs may be due largely to a lack of awareness by the exploration geolog…
Penyelidikan bitumen padat secara berada di aderah Kabupaten Jayapura dan sekitarnya di Provinsi Papua, dilakukan dalam rangka pencarian potensi bahan galian khusunya bitumen padat. Pelaksanaan kegiatan penyelidikan bitumen ini dilakukan dengan mengumpulkan data sekunder berupa pencarian data dan informasi mengenai daerah yang bersangkutan, baik dar…
Daerah Sumai, terletak di Kecamatan Tengah Ilir, Kabupaten tebo, Provinsi Jambi. Secara geografis dibatasi oleh koordinat 01*25' - 01*30' LS dan 102*35' - 102*40' BT. Daerah ini secara geologi termasuk Cekungan Sumatera Selatan dengan stratigrafi tersusun oleh endpan Tersier dan Kuarter. Sedimen Tersier adalah formasi Airbenakat berumur Miosen Awal …
This book is about minerals and mineral resources, about the role they play in the economies of the United States and other countries, and about the problems involved in obtaining adequate supplies of minerals. These problems are important, because civilization as we know it today is dependent on the availability of a wide range of mineral materials…