Enivronmental geology

Includes= water, energy, metallic minerals & engineering geology.

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Water storage.
Factors affecting porosity and permeability, the water table and hydrolic gradient and pressure.
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Aquifers and astesian basins
Types of aquifers and how artesian basins and wells form.
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Ground water supply and quality
How to get the water, problems caused by this and the threats. The quality of the ground water.
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Springs
Types of spring- lithological, faults, intrusions and unconformities.
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Water resources
Advantages and disadvantages of surface water and the for groundwater
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Oiil and natural gas
The requirments- source rock, maturation, migration,reservoir rock, cap rock and a trap
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Traps
Such as- Anticline, fault, salt dome, unconformity, lithology and how oil can be lost
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Hydrocarbons and their exploration
Seismic reflection, gravity surveys, drilling- mud logging & down-hole logging
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Reserves & recovery of oil and gas
Reserves and primary and secondary recovery
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Storing oil and gas
Underground facilites for natural gas
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Future for gas and oil
Unconventional petroleum and the north seas oil snd gas
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Peat and coal
The environment needed, coalification and it's ranking and the use for coal
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Coal mining
Opencast and underground mining and geological factors such as- faulting, washout and seam splitting make it difficult
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Future for coal
Types of coal field= south wales and yorkshire
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Geothermal energy
methods of extraction- volcanic, geothermal aquifers, hot dry rock and advantages and disadvantages.
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Metallic minerals
Crustal abundance and concentration factors and the cut-off grades of ores
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Hydrothermal ore deposits
Types of ore deposties, hydrothermal veins and what they are
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Gravity settling and residual ores
Gravity settleing of magnetite, ores from bauxite
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Placer ore deposits
What they are, requirements, how they form and where
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Secondary enrichment and uranium ores
Secondary enrichment of chalcopyrite in copper about and below the water table. Uranium ore deposits in sandstone
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Exploration of metals
Geophysical=gravity surveys, magnetic surveys & electrical resistivity. Geochemical= stream and soil surveys
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Metals mining and the future
Environmental consequences of open and closed mining and metallic mining
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Building and construction
Building stone, aggregate, roadstone, brick clay and cement and concrete
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Card 2

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Types of aquifers and how artesian basins and wells form.

Back

Aquifers and astesian basins

Card 3

Front

How to get the water, problems caused by this and the threats. The quality of the ground water.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Types of spring- lithological, faults, intrusions and unconformities.

Back

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Card 5

Front

Advantages and disadvantages of surface water and the for groundwater

Back

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