EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Active Layer, Urban Sprawl, Piezometer
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Lec 12: march 28, 2016 environmental challenges. Urban sprawl: produce large amounts of waste, impact that ciies have upon enire regions, sand and gravel. Managing/protecing water resources: piezometer used to sample water. Soluion export water (doesn"t happen here, but may happen in 20 years we send our water to the us) Wastes (nuclear, municipal, industrial, etc. : municipal waste is the waste you put out each week. Radon gas: gas that is produced by breakdown of uranium: used to date rocks, found everywhere, in canada radon is primarily derived from graniic rocks known as canadian shield. Miigaion of climate warming efects: permafrost: ground that has been deeply frozen for 1000s of years. Acive layer layer that melts in summer (1-3 m deep) Thermokarst meling of permafrost in response to warming. Thaw ponds formed during hypsithermal (elevated) warm period (5000 years ago) How to build infrastructure on evolving land (ex.
