series of conferences on Mining and Earth Sciences around the Pacific Rim and the first to be held outside Australasia PACRIM congresses have become the forum for presenting a broad range of issues of concern to earth scientist working around the Pacific Rim. Increasingly we find ourselves challenged accross a growing spectrum of propessional dicipl…
Energy is a cause of concern to an increasing number of People. In the process of meeting the final demand for energy, losses occur at various stages from production to consumption. The use of fossil fuels and the resulting effects of combustion gasses on the earth's ozone layer, or acid rain, are "green" issues. So too, is nuclear energy and the di…
. The synoptic view afforded by orbiting earth sensors can be' extremely valuable for resource evaluation, environmental monitoring and development planning. For many regions of the world, however, cloud cover has prevented the acquisition of remotely sensed data during the most environmentally stressed periods of t…
This book was first published in French in 2006 by the Presses polytechnique et universi• taires romande (PPUR). In 2010 a new edition of the French version was published. This new version was published by CRC Press and translated into English by Patricia Bobeck. In 2017, CRC press asked me to write a new edit…
We are facing a climate crisis, one that may seem to be happening slowly but is actually happening very quickly. If we don't recognnize that this is a real crisis and take action, then the consequences will only get worse. The threat of extinction to endangered species such as polar bears would increase. Water levels could rise so much that millions…
prospeksi unsur tanah jarang (UTJ) di daerah Kacang Butor, Kecamatan Badau , Kabupatebn Belitung , provinsi Bangka Belitung Pulau Belitung secara geologi memliki kaitan erat dengan lingkungan geologi dan jalur timah di Indonesia p. Bangka , SIngkep , Kundur dan pulau kecil penghasil timah di Indonesia (Lehmann, 1990), terbentuk kaerna adanya terob…