Book Title: Environmental Geology
Book Description: Environmental Geology is an interactive introductory text designed to serve students who are taking Environmental Geology at Normandale Community College. This text covers content on the physical aspects of geology as well as the relationship between people and the environment, focusing on the distribution and use of geologic resources, natural hazards and their effects on human activity, and human impacts on the physical environment.
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Book Information
Book Source
This book is a cloned version of Physical Geology, First University of Saskatchewan Edition by Karla Panchuk, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
License
Environmental Geology Copyright © 2024 by Lindsay Iredale is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Subject
Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere
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Environmental Geology Copyright © 2024 by Lindsay Iredale is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
© 2024 Lindsay Iredale
The CC license permits you to retain, reuse, copy, redistribute, and revise this book for non-commercial purposes—in whole or in part—for free providing the adapted work is shared under the same license and the author is attributed as follows:
Environmental Geology by Lindsay Iredale is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.Adaptation Statement
Environmental Geology by Lindsay Iredale used Physical Geology – H5P Edition by Karla Panchuck, copyright 2021 Karla Panchuk, which is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license as a starting point for learning the internal workings of how to organize chapters and for the abundance of excellent figures and H5P content. Unless specifically stated otherwise, beyond this framework all written chapter content has been reordered, reworked, removed, or added to better fit an environmental geology focus as detailed here:- Content on Plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, rivers, climate, fossil fuels were reordered, reworked, portions removed, and have new material added.
- All other chapters from original work were removed
- Content on groundwater, water quality and water resources in agriculture, virtual water, alternative energy are new content
- while some figures and H5P activities were utilized, this book contains over 200 new figures, including over 70 original figures, and over 90 new H5P activities
Note that each of the H5P activities included with the H5P Edition are individually licensed with their own Creative Commons licenses and can be used independently of the book under the terms of their own licenses. You will find the Creative Commons license for an H5P activity by clicking “Rights of Use” at the bottom of each specific H5P activity.
Sample APA-style citation (7th Edition):
Iredale, L. (2024). Environmental Geology. Normandale Community College, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/environmentalgeology/Cover image attribution:
Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon with Vatnajökull glacier in the background, Iceland by Lindsay Iredale