Week 3 Annotated Bibliography

lain Thornton. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis (2010) 10 (3): 317-329.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/1467-7873/09-241

Summary: This article talks about a lot of examples of overall environmental geochemistry for each country.  By showing the analysis of each country's environmental resources, this article emphasizes the importance of their own resources. Also, this article alerts us to use environmental resources properly by giving examples of the contamination of abusing resources and several diseases. This can be helpful for scientists to think about the importance of environmental elements.

De Vivo, B. et al.

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis(2018),18(4):277

http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/geochem2018-060

Summary: This article talks about the advantages of knowing geochemistry knowledge were issued in China and Italy. Not only China and Italy but also all of the countries are focused on the importance of raw materials. Raw materials are essential for the country's economic development. In this entry, the author emphasized the importance of the raw material because it is gradually decreased in these days. Also, the author suggested for all countries to research and learn about geochemistry knowledge for their citizens. 

W03 GeoJournal: Is it a Mineral?

While I was finding some stuff to use as a subject of my Geojournal, I found the stuff that I always use. I really like using my phone in my free time and that picture composed my phone. This is my phone battery. You know what? The Battery has a lot of components to make it. The mineral that I will introduce to you is Lithium. It's so soft that we can almost cut through the knife and the lightest metal element. If you put a lump of Lithium into the water, it will explode because it is alkali metal. The use of Lithium is very diverse. It is used for making nuclear and also medicine for manic depressive disorder.

I learned about the danger of Lithium by experimenting when I was in high school. Although it is the least powerful element among alkali metal, it's definite that it is a dangerous element. This opportunity was helpful for me to learn about Lithium more exactly.

Annotated Bibliography Week 2

Annotated Bibliography

Arsenic-Environmental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Microbiology. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 79 (R.J. Bowell, C.N. Alpers, H.E. Jamieson, D.K. Nordstron, and J. Majzlan, eds.)

Deditius,Artur

Economic Geology(2015),110(7):1905

http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.110.7.1905

This article gives some information about on arsenic from a variety of perspectives, including mineralogy, geochemistry, microbiology, toxicology and environmental engineering. This article reviews  various aspects of the surface complexation, competitive sorption, and abiotic redox reactions of arsenic, evaluating the fate and transport of the element in the Earth's surficial environment. And also focuses on the paragenesis of arsenic minerals in magmatic-hydrothermal, metamorphic-hydrothermal, hot springs and fumarolic gases, coal and products of coal combustion, soils and fluvial systems, mine wastes, metallurgical wastes, and under ground spaces. This article offers a lot of information about regional characteristics like mineral sources, geographical structures' details and environmental geochemistry. Also, it shows quality and detailed chemical data of the coal. Through this analyzed coal from southwestern Wyoming, it showed the evidence of mineralization or high metal contents that would indicate potentially economic byproduct materials in the coal. Overall, this article shows environmental geochemical elements in Wyoming.

J. J. Connor
Summary report of the geology, mineral resources, engineering geology, and environmental geochemistry of the Sweetwater-Kemmerer area, Wyoming; Part C, Environmental geochemistry

Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey (1977):OF 77-0362 22 pp.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1977/0360/report.pdf

This article offers a lot of information about regional characteristics like mineral sources, geographical structures' details and environmental geochemistry. Also, it shows quality and detailed chemical data of the coal. Through this analyzed coal from southwestern Wyoming, it showed the evidence of mineralization or high metal contents that would indicate potentially economic byproduct materials in the coal. Overall, this article shows environmental geochemical elements in Wyoming.

GEOL111 Week 2 GeoJournal - Earthquake in South Korea

Plate Tectonics news

November 15^th, 2017

At that time, the first earthquake had occurred as a magnitude of 2.6 and second earthquake occurred as a magnitude of 5.4. I didn’t feel that earthquake because I lived far away from Pohang. But some of my friends said that they felt that earthquake. Because of this earthquake, our national college entrance exam was postponed. The earthquake was the most damaging and the second-largest in magnitude in South Korea. The main reason for this earthquake is Korea peninsula lies within Eurasian Plate. There are several physical and chemical reasons for this earthquake but in our class, we didn’t learn about that. So I won’t mention those reasons.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/1007

Jeju-The volcanic island

I'm from South Korea so I will introduce our largest island Jeju. People who live in Korea, they would go to Jeju island because this place is so famous to Korean people. The second picture is a whole part of Jeju island. Jeju island is consist of a lot of basalts. The first picture is called columnar joint that we don't learn yet. This geographical feature is generated by the process that the thick larva is cooled at very fast speed. So if you go to Jeju island, you can see the basalt everywhere.