Possible Topics

From GeoClasses

Possible Topics for Extra Credit Project

• acid mine drainage in the US: USGS main website by state

• Love Canal: development over toxic waste disposal site

• Times Beach: dioxin contamination from oiling roads in a town built on the floodplain

• Blackwater River, WV: acid mine drainage from open pit mining

• Nauru: phosphate mining

• Avery Island, LA: salt mining

• Loma Prieta earthquake, San Francisco Bay area: problem of liquefaction, soils and landslides

• Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004: tsunami caused by earthquake

• Mauna Loa, Hawaii: hazards living near a shield volcano

• Mt St Helens: hazards living near a stratovolcano

• Laki volcanic fissure in Iceland: toxic gases from volcanic eruptions

• Iceland: living on a mid-ocean ridge

• Hawaii: living on a hot spot

• Mt Rainier: living next to subduction volcanoes (and risk from lahars?)

• Lake Nyos: living next to a volcanically influenced lake (toxic gases)

• Thistle, Utah: landslide and dams

• Ogallala aquifer: water resources and/or subsidence problems

• Three Gorges Dam, China: rivers and flooding, and/or energy resources

• Three Mile Island or Chernobyl: nuclear power plant disasters

• alternative energy resources: wind power, solar power, methane hydrates

• California water wars: water resources and environmental law