Resource Exploration and Environmental Implications

Resource Exploration and Environmental Implications

1. Geological Mapping

   • Characteristics + Dispertion of rock near the surface
   • Structure
   • Composition
   • Infer three dimentional arrangement of rock
   • Land Assessment
   • Engineering construction
   • Natural hazard risk assessment
   • 1:250 000 or 1:100 000
   • Record objective observations
   • Ideally created in the field
     • Bedrock/ Outcrop geologic map
     • Uses topographic map as base
   • Interpretive Geologic Map
     • Inferences about the geology based on evidence
     • Aerial Photographs
     • Geochem/ Geophys data
     • Only Gives Generalisation of area
   • Topographical Maps
     • Shows topography- shape of land
     • Contour Lines
     • Geographic Reference System
       • Lat/Long
         • Degrees
         • Minutes
         • Seconds
         • Equator= 0 lat
         • Prime meridian 0 long
         • 180 degrees
       • UTM
         • Universal Transverse Mercator
         • Uses a rect. grid
         • some overlap
         • uses metric system
       • Metes and Bounds
         • legal land descriptions
         • reference to location using base line
   • characteristics
     • Title
     • Author
     • Date
     • Explanation
       • Explains what the symbols mean
     • Scale

2. Geophysical Exploration

3. Gechemical Exploration

4. Drilling

5. Environmental Impact Statement