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2007 (Reprint)
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| Publication |
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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| Description |
viii, 392pDark Brown Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Comprehensively meeting all syllabus requirements, this text uses global, Australian and NSW contexts to explore interactions between humans and the environments they inhabit. The text provides coverage of core and option topics.
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| Contents |
Section 1: Tectonic impacts
- Tectonic plates
- Mountain building
- How continents evolve
- Natural disasters and tectonics
- Climate and tectonics
Section 2: Environments through time
- The ages of the Earth
- Fossils and evolution
- Important events of the Archaean and Early Proterozoic
- Important events of the Late Proterozoic and Early Phanerozoic
- Life moves into the terrestrial environment
- Decimation and regeneration of the Earth's life
Section 3: Caring for the country
- Weathering and erosion of Australia's land surfaces
- Salinity of soils and water
- Pesticides: Effects and alternatives
- Maintaining and protecting surface water
- The impact of the industrial revolution on the atmosphere and hydrosphere
- Waste management and mine-site rehabilitation
Section4: Introduced species and the Australian environment
- Survey of introduced species in Australia
- Environmental impacts of introduced species
- Introduced species case studies
- Rehabilitating ecosystems damaged by introduced species
- Modern quarantine methods
Section 5: Organic geology: A non renewable resource
- The properties of fossil fuels
- Environments and processes of fossil fuel formation
- Exploration methods for coal and oil
- The processing and uses of fossil fuels
- The effects of fossil fuels on the environment
- The search for alternative sources of energy
Section 6: Mining and the Australian environment
- Why mineral deposits are not all ore deposits
- Mineral exploration
- From discovery to export
- Mining, society and the law
- Mining and the environment
Section 7: Oceanography
- Collecting data about the oceans
- The world's oceans
- Mass motion of the oceans
- Life in the oceans
- Hydrothermal vents and their communities
- Deep-sea sediments
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| Standard Number |
0521016630 Pb.
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