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Urban Geochemistry, December 2012, Vol. 8, No. 6
$20.00By 2030, about 60% of the human population will live in cities. Clearly, anthropogenic activities in urban environments affect geochemical cycles, water resources, and the health of ecosystems and humans globally.
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Rare Earth Elements, October 2012, Vol. 8, No. 5
$20.00Rare earth–based materials have practical applications in transportation, renew able energy, medicine, household items, visual arts, forensic science, and defense, and thus are essential to the progress of humankind. The rapid development and implementation of innovative and green technologies in the past decade have resulted in greatly increased demand for rare earth elements (REE).
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Granitic Pegmatites, August 2012, Vol. 8, No. 4
$20.00Nothing that geoscientists learn as students prepares them for interpreting rock textures as complex as those found in pegmatites. Understanding the textures and mineral zonation of granitic pegmatites is tantamount to understanding the fundamental process of crystallization.
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Fukushima Dai-Ichi, June 2012, Vol. 8, No. 3
$20.00On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, killing more than 20,000 persons, displacing tens of thousands, and causing havoc in the infra structure and economy of the country. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the cooling systems of three of the operating reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station failed and meltdown of the reactor cores occurred.
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Minerals, Microbes, And Remediation, April 2012, Vol. 8, No. 2
$20.00Studies of mineral–microbe interactions lie at the heart of the emerging field of geomicrobiology, because minerals are the fundamental Earth materials with which microbes interact. Microbes are found in a number of the Earth’s extreme environments and also in extraterrestrial materials.
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Impact!, February 2012, Vol. 8, No. 1
$20.00Impact processes are central to the formation and evolution of the Solar System and the modification of planetary surfaces. On Earth, asteroid impacts played a critical role during Earth history; they delivered the constituents of our planet, were responsible for the formation of major ore deposits, and affected life on Earth.
