Resources for the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the International Centennial Symposium of the United States Geological Survey, Held at Reston, Virginia, October 14-19, 1979, Issue 1193

U.S. Geological Survey, 1982 - Earth sciences - 345 pages

SCOPE OF EARTHSCIENCE CHALLENGES FOR THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY	2

Satellite Data SystemsContinued	7

Greetings from the National Academy of Sciences	11

Challenges and Opportunities	19

Production of main mineral commodities in Indonesia	26

PROBLEMS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR IDENTIFYING EXPLORING	33

Discussion	44

Problems and Requirements for Identifying Exploring and Developing Resources	52

GEOLOGIC HAZARDS	238

An Earthquake Research Programme in Turkey	248

Volcano Hazards Lessons Learned in the Eastern Caribbean	256

Assessment of Earthquake Prediction in Seismic Hazard Reduction Problems	263

Geologic Hazards and Man	273

GEOLOGIC FACTORS AND THE ENVIRONMENT	276

Application of Earth Sciences to Landuse Problems in the United States with Emphasis	283

Environmental Mapping in India	292

Discussion and Comments from the Floor	58

OPPORTUNITIES AND PERSPECTIVES IN SURVEYING MAPPING AND CAR	61

Discussion	76

Satellite Data Systems	82

Meteorological satellites	83

Discussion	91

Discussion	97

CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS CONCERNING ENERGY RESOURCES	103

Sufficient Energy Raw Materials for Everyone? Continued	104

An International View of Nuclear Raw Materials Uranium	115

Discussion	132

Known quantities of nonrenewable and renewable commercial energy sources in India 1978	138

Their Assessment and Potential for the Twentyfirst Century	145

Estimate of heavy crude and tar sand reserves	151

Discussion	157

CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS CONCERNING MINERAL RESOURCES	163

Discussion	179

Preliminary Study of Mineral Resources of Latin America	183

The Experience of the Committee for	192

Discussion	201

WATER AND PEOPLE	212

The Legal and Administrative Implications of the Hydrological Cycle and Waterrelated	218

Panel Discussion	231

The Australian Approach to Environmental Mapping	298

Sidelooking Airborne Radar as a Tool for Natural Resources Mapping The Brazilian Ap proach	317

Radar image and infrared aerial photo taken simultaneously	318

Tertiary and Quaternary cover in radar image	319

A complex area to be mapped	320

Different types of major units of vegetation in the Amazon region	321

Main physiographic aspects of an area of 240000 square kilometers	322

The use of helicopters turned out to be the only way to reach inaccessible localities	323

Portion of radar image to be compared with the thematic maps in figures 1318	324

Suitability for agriculture map of the area of figure 12	325

Circular structures mapped in Amazon	326

Circular structure carbonatite discovered during the mapping survey	327

Geomorphologic units of the Amazon based on RADAM survey	328

Potential timber exploration map of Amazon	329

Very unstable area where dense forest lies over sandy soil	330

Areas of unstable ecosystems that require preservation	331

Natural shoulders that can be used if a dam must be constructed in this area	332

Comparison between radar image and magnetometric map 29 Accessibility map	333

Planimetric information overprinted on radar image	335

Comments from the Floor	336

PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE	338

New Opportunities for Geologists	339

Earth History as Moral Science	343

Title	Resources for the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the International Centennial Symposium of the United States Geological Survey, Held at Reston, Virginia, October 14-19, 1979, Issue 1193 Volume 1193 of Geological Survey professional paper, ISSN 0096-0446 Volume 1193 of Professional paper Resources for the twenty-first century: proceedings of the International Centennial Symposium of the United States Geological Survey, held at Reston, Virginia, October 14-19, 1979, United States. Department of the Interior
Author	Geological Survey (U.S.)
Editors	Frank C. Whitmore, Mary Ellen Williams
Publisher	U.S. Geological Survey, 1982
Original from	University of Minnesota
Digitized	3 Aug 2009
Length	345 pages

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