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Environmental impact of Economic Geology
Economic Geology
Scientific Federation is going to conduct a conference
on Earth Science & Geo Science
at Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 13-14, 2018. Economic Geology is
one of session where presentations can be done at Summit.
Economic Geology is concerned with earth
materials that can be used for economic and/or industrial purposes. These
materials include precious and base metals, nonmetallic minerals, construction
grade stone, petroleum minerals, coal and water. Economic geology is studied
and practiced by geologists. Economic geology may be of interest to other
professions such as engineers, environmental scientists, and conservationists
because of the far reaching impact that attractive industries have on society,
the economy, and the environment.
The
concept of Economic Geology is a relatively new one, even though humans have
been extracting metals and minerals of value from the ground since prehistoric
times. For all their ability to appreciate the worth of such resources,
however, premodern people possessed little in the way of scientific theories
regarding either their formation or the means of extracting them.
A
few decades ago most geologists were engaged in the exploration and development
of mineral resources. However, economic geology and the application of geology
to problems of the urban environment are slowly demanding the services of an
increasing number of geologists. Today a sufficient number of economic
geologists are interested in environmental problems. They subscribe to the
thought that “mineral resources will always be needed”, but “environmental
issues are a major factor in mining feasibility”. There is now a greater
interest in the environment than ever before and we face concerns about the
environmental impacts of almost every aspect of our daily lives. Water, soil,
air and the biological environment can all be changed dramatically by the
activities of industrial societies like our own, not least through mechanisms
which are controlled by essentially geological processes.
The
latest news of Economic Geology is North Texas earthquakes occurring on 'dead'
faults, seismology research shows. Recent earthquakes in Texas' Fort Worth
Basin - in the community of Venus and the Dallas suburb of Irving - occurred on
faults not active for at least 300 million years, according to research. The
research supports the assertion that recent North Texas earthquakes were
induced, rather than natural. The conclusion is entirely independent of
previous analyses correlating seismic to the timing of wastewater injection
practices, but corroborates those earlier findings.
We would
like to formally invite you to be a participant in the upcoming “International
Congress & Expo on Earth Science & Geo Science”. Theme of the conference
is focused on Stimulating and Analyzing the Changes of Earth & Climate, the
conference will analyze the recent advancements and new modes that can be
enforced to the research to take Earth Science & Geo Science, one step
further.
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