Article I.
PART I. EARTH SPHERES AND EARTH MATERIALSChapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Earth Spheres and their Interactions
Chapter 3. Earth Materials I - Minerals
Chapter 4. Earth Materials II - Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
PART II MINERAL RESOURCES
Chapter 5. Ore Deposits and Mineral Exploration
Chapter 6. Abundant and Scarce Metals
Chapter 7. Non-metals and Industrial Minerals
Chapter 8. Environmental Impacts of Metal Resources
Article II.
PART III ENERGY RESOURCES
Chapter 9. Energy Perspectives
Chapter 10. Carbon-based Energy Resources
Chapter 11. Environmental Impacts of Carbon-based Energy
Chapter 12. Non Carbon-based Energy Resources
Chapter 13. Environmental impacts of non Carbon-based energy
Article III.
PART IV Water and Soil Resources
Chapter 14. Water Resources
Chapter 15. Soil Resources
Chapter 16. Environmental impacts on Water and Soil Resources
Article IV.
PART V Text Boxes and Calculation boxes
Chapter 1
Calculation box 1.1. Carbon dioxide projections
Text box 1.1. Welcome to the Anthropocene
Chapter 2
Text box 2.1. Alexander von Humboldt
Text box 2.2. Who owns the Ocean’s resources?
Calculation box 2.1. Global sea level rise due to Greenland ice melting
Calculation box 2.2. What is the mass of the atmosphere?
Text box 2.3. The geologic time scale
Chapter 3
Text box 3.1. Arsenic in the environment
Calculation box 3.1. The Age of the Earth
Chapter 4
Calculation box 4.1. The triangular plot
Chapter 5
Text box 5.1. History of smelting furnaces
Text box 5.2. Fluid inclusions
Text box 5.3. Mineral resources of Afghanistan
Chapter 6
Text box 6.1 The Strength of alloys
Chapter 7
Text box 7.1. Building stones of Washington D.C.
Chapter 9
Text box 9.1. The price of electricity
Calculation box. 9.1 Combustion of gasoline
Calculation box 9.2. Geothermal heat flow
Text box 9.2. The Pickens’s energy plan
Chapter 10
Text box 10.1. Units and conversion factors
Calculation box 10.1. Vitrinite reflectance temperature
Text box 10.2. The future for algal biofuel
Chapter 11
Calculation box 11.1. Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere
Calculation box 11.2. Trace elements in the Kingston coal ash spill
Chapter 12
Calculation box 12.1. Binding energy of uranium
Calculation box 12.2. Wind turbine power
Calculation box 12.3 Hydroelectric turbine power
Chapter 13
Text box 13.1. Radon gas in the home
Chapter 14
Calculation box 14.1. Sea level rise due to thermal expansion
Calculation box 14.2. Darcy’s law
Chapter 16
Calculation box 16.1. The temperature record