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ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY: PRACTICAL EXERCISES by Bernard Pipkin & David Cummings. Practical laboratory exercises for a course in Environmental Geology. From the basics of reading & understanding topographic & geologic maps, to the study of rocks & minerals through exercises involving all the significant ways the geology directly affects the environment, & interacts with our lives. Earthquakes, beach erosion, dams, rivers, surface & ground water, resources. All the exercises are self-contained, requiring no special equipment or laboratories. New edition in development for 2002 publication. Star Publishing Company, P.O. Box 68, Belmont, CA 94002. Phone (650) 591-3505; fax (650) 591-3898 email: mail@starpublishing.com