EESA06H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 Notes
23 Apr 2018
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Lecture 10: notes: bioturbation - rocks that are older than about 600 million years old are usually pristine. Have huge contaminants: nuclear waste a huge issue in canada about what we do with nuclear waste. There is high level (radioactive), intermediate and low- level waste high level nuclear waste has been stored on site at pickering nuclear generator. Station, darlington in the middle of a very dense urban conglomeration: landfill an old quarry that is abandoned because they can put waste in them. And they produce various types of cancers: tsunami - globally a big problem. Mitigation of climate warming effects: economic factor - in southern ontario there is about 13 billion dollars worth of infrastructure, which is uninsured for earthquakes. And as a result of the surface runoff, we get erosion because the rivers are not adequate. And it is where the river makes a right angle bend to get into the harbour.
