01:460:100 Midterm: exam1review (1)

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: 01:460:100
• Professor: Sugarman

Document Summary

This review is to help you make an outline by organizing information and ideas. Rachel carson: silent spring book (tale about widespread pesticide poisoning), helped launch environmental policy (gvts should not only preserve earth, but regulate and punish those who pollute it). environmental geology: interactions of humans and geological environment. Effects of environment on humans (earthquakes: earth materials: minerals, hydrocarbons, soils, natural hazards: floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis, land use: design with nature, water: groundwater and surface water, geologic and climatic processes. Concerned with understanding our past, present and future: scientific studies of future based on our knowledge of past and present, statements about the future, called forecasts and predictions, lie at the core of environmental geology. Aral sea case study: was the 4th largest lake in the world, shrinking for >35 yrs due to stream diversions, waterline appox. Solution: irrigation halted, canals drain waterlogged fields into sea.