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Textbook suitable for an environmental or physical geology course, with a strong environmental emphasis.
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What is environmental geology; minerals; rocks; topographic maps; geologic maps; soils and soil pollution; swelling soils; slope stability and landslides; river processes; floods; groundwater; water pollution; solid waste disposal; coastal erosion; earthquakes; volcanoes and eruptions; non-fuel mineral resources; petroleum and natural gas; coal; air pollution; alternative energy sources; mathematical conversion factors; geological time scale; earth science information centres; environmental journals.
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