GEOL 106 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hydrogen Sulfide, Lake Ontario

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: John Hages

Document Summary

Risk management: mitigate (geological) hazards by minimizing damage, economic cost, and loss of life/injuries, the first example (in this course) is risk management of earthquakes. The government proposes to build a nuclear reactor on lake ontario near kingston. We need to do a risk analysis/management study focused on seismic (earthquake) risk. We have properties there: hazards may be natural or anthropogenic (human-induced). These hazards are often intertwined: a resource (eg, water) is something useful to us. Societal preferences: synergy is when two resources combine to cause a hazard. Eg, snow and wind (resources of water/electricity) may cause a blizzard: after a hazard event, there are both losses and gains. Eg, trees fall down; those workers doing the work get paid more money. Eg, the haitian earthquake may have left clues to petroleum reservoirs in the area. Eg, sudden impact of a large meteorite (which may lead to mass extinctions).