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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