Earth Sciences 1070A/B Midterm: Midterm Definitions

• School: Western University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: Earth Sciences 1070A/B
• Professor: Natalie Pietrzak- Renaud

Document Summary

Introduction in an amount that economic extraction is feasible. Resource a concentration of naturally occurring solid, liquid, or gas in or on earth"s crust. Geology study of the earth and its natural processes. Economic geology study of natural resources of earth that are economic and extractable (cid:498)if it cant be grown, it must be mined(cid:499) Physical geology materials that make up the earth and the processes that cause. Commodity a natural resource such as gold, or diamonds, that is marketable formation of materials below surface. Gems/gemstones (diamonds, rubies) composition and regular internal structure. Industrial minerals and rocks (aggregate, quartz, limestone, granite) different crystal structure. Igneous rocks size and charge may be substituted more or less interchangeably for each other in the same mineral structure. Mining the science, technology, and business of mineral discovery and exploitation. Mineral a naturally occurring, inorganic, solid element or compound with a definite.