Summary: Environmental Science

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  • 1 Environmental Science

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  • Magma ( molten rock)

    Forced up through the cracks forms new oceanic crust
  • Mid - Ocean ridges

    Where the seafloor spreads and magma seeps out to create new crust.
  • High Purity Silica sand

    Our source of glass
  • Halite, or Rock Salt

    Used for water softening and ice melting on winter roads in northern areas
  • 1977 Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA)

    Requires better restoration of strip-mined lands, but restoration is expensive.
  • Nuclear fission -splitting

    Releasing energy and more neutrons causing a self-sustaining chain reaction.
  • Biomass (plant material)

    Using plants such as algae or peat to generate electricity
  • Concentrating Solar power  (CSP) system

    Solar high-temperature thermal plants suitable for industrial-size facilities
  • 2012 EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

    Making coal plants more expensive to operate
  • Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    Discovered 1997, is best known of these plastic debris fields.
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