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12.102

Environmental Earth Science

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2005

The geologic record demonstrates that our environment has changed over a variety of time scales from seconds to billions of years. This course explores the many ways in which geologic processes control and modify the Earth's environment and serves as an introduction to Environmental Earth Science Field Course (12.120), which addresses field applications of these principles in the American Southwest.

Readings

  • Merritts, D., A. de Wet, and K. Menking. Environmental Geology: an Earth System Science Approach . New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998. ISBN: 9780716728344.
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  • Keller, E. A. Environmental Geology. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780130224668.
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  • Montgomery, C. W. Environmental Geology. 6th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN: 9780073661957.
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  • Pipken, B. W., and D. D. Trent. Geology and the Environment. 4th ed. California, CA: Brooks Cole, 2004. ISBN: 9780534490515.
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  • Thompson, G. R., and J. Turk. Environmental Geoscience. 3rd ed. Ft Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997. ISBN: 9780030988660.
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  • Merritts, D., A. de Wet, and K. Menking. Environmental Geology: an Earth System Science Approach . New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998, chapters 2, 3. ISBN: 9780716728344.
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  • Liu, Jianguo, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Gary W. Luck. “Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity.” Nature 421 (January 30, 2003).
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  • Bartlett, Albert A. “The World’s Worst Population Problem.” Wild Earth 7, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 88-90.
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  • Eberstadt, Nicholas. “ Population Sense and Nonsense .” AEI Online, Sunday, September 1, 2002. ↗
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  • “ Nuclear industry exec picked to head Yucca Mountain project ,” Las Vegas Sun , September 09, 2005, Associated Press. ↗
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  • “ DOE proposes spending cuts for Yucca Mountain scientists ,” Las Vegas Sun , September 14, 2005, Associated Press. ↗
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  • Brumfiel, Geoff. “Senate nod prompts fresh analysis of nuclear waste dump.” Nature 418 (July 18, 2002).
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  • ———. “Kerry pledges to axe Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump.” Nature 430 (August 19, 2004).
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  • ———. “Fake papers hamper plans for nuclear store at Yucca Mountain.” Nature 434 (March 24, 2005).
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  • Macilwain, Colin. “Out of sight, out of mind?” Nature 412 (August 30, 2001).
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  • Kerr, Richard A. “Nuclear Waste Disposal: Science and Policy Clash at Yucca Mountain.” Science 288, no. 5466 (April 28, 2000): 602.
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  • Ewing, Rodney C., and Allison Macfarlane. “Yucca Mountain.” Science 296 (April 26, 2002).
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  • Merritts, D., A. de Wet, and K. Menking. Environmental Geology: an Earth System Science Approach . New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998, chapters 4, 5. ISBN: 9780716728344.
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  • de Wit, Maarten J. “Valuing copper mined from ore deposits.” Ecological Economics 55 (2005): 437-443.
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  • Dallmeyer, R. D. Physical Geology: Laboratory Text and Manual . 6th (Book and CD) ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Pub. Co., September 1999, exercise 18. ISBN: 9780787259587.
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  • Merritts, D., A. de Wet, and K. Menking. Environmental Geology: an Earth System Science Approach . New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780716728344.
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  • To review for the test: Merritts, D., A. de Wet, and K. Menking. Environmental Geology: an Earth System Science Approach . New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998, chapters 6, 8, 9, and 12. ISBN: 9780716728344.
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