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Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American-Caribbean Region

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Role of National Institutions and International Cooperation in the Development of the Geological Sciences in the Central American-Caribbean Region
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    Chapter 2 The Known and Potential Resource Base for Economic Development in the Central American-Caribbean Region
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    Chapter 3 Geodynamic Map of Costa Rica
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    Chapter 4 Central America and the North Caribbean: Resource Implications Inferred from Paleomagnetic Data and Plate Tectonic History
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    Chapter 5 The Status of Mineral Production in the Caribbean Basin Countries
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    Chapter 6 Circum-Caribbean Sedimentary Basin Development and Timing of Hydrocarbon Maturation as a Function of Caribbean Plate Tectonic Evolution
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    Chapter 7 The Human and Economic Losses of Selected Natural Disasters in Latin America, 1970–1987
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    Chapter 8 Central American Resource Studies
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    Chapter 9 Caribbean Region: Perspectives on Petroleum
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    Chapter 10 Sedimentary Basins of Costa Rica: Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Potential
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    Chapter 11 An Integrated Geological and Geophysical Interpretation of the San Carlos Basin, Costa Rica
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    Chapter 12 Preliminary Tectonic Outline of Northern Guatemala
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    Chapter 13 The Cobán Formation in the Petén Basin, Guatemala
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    Chapter 14 The Petroleum Potential of the Netherlands Antilles
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    Chapter 15 Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Potential of Puerto Rico
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    Chapter 16 An Oil and Gas Assessment of the U.S. Continental Slope in the Gulf of Mexico
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    Chapter 17 The Perpetual Mystery of Petroleum Migration
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    Chapter 18 Coal in the Central American-Caribbean Region
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    Chapter 19 Exploration, Development, and Utilization of Coal in Costa Rica
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    Chapter 20 Coal Resources of the Baja Talamanca Area of Costa Rica
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    Chapter 21 A Mining Design Project for the Zent Coal, Limon, Costa Rica
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    Chapter 22 Utilizing Coal in the Cement Industry in Costa Rica
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    Chapter 23 Coal Districts of Venezuela
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    Chapter 24 Status of Coal Exploration in the Atlantic Coast of Colombia
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    Chapter 25 Opportunities for Collaborating in Utilization of Clean Coal Technologies
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    Chapter 26 Peat Deposits of Central America and the Caribbean Region
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    Chapter 27 Deposits of Peat in Costa Rica
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    Chapter 28 Economics of Selected Energy Applications of Peat in Panama and Costa Rica
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    Chapter 29 Status and Geologic Setting of Geothermal Fields in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
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    Chapter 30 Seismological Studies at the Miravalles Geothermal Project
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    Chapter 31 Geophysical Exploration of the Las Pailas Geothermal Field, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
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    Chapter 32 Momotombo Geothermal Field
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    Chapter 33 Current Status of Geothermal Activities in Guatemala
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    Chapter 34 Geothermal Prefeasibility Studies in Honduras
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    Chapter 35 Prefeasibility Geothermal Assessment of Platanares, Department of Copan, Honduras
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    Chapter 36 An Economic Prefeasibility Study of Geothermal Energy Development at Platanares, Honduras
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    Chapter 37 Application of Geothermal Energy to Mineral Processing: Cyanide Heap-Leaching of Low-Grade Gold Ore
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    Chapter 38 Environmental Impacts Associated with Geothermal Exploration, Development, and Power Generation
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    Chapter 39 The Outlook for Volcanic-Hosted Gold Deposits in the Republic of Costa Rica
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    Chapter 40 Origin of Gold from the Golfo Dulce Placer Province, Southern Costa Rica
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    Chapter 41 Nickel Potential of the Caribbean Plate and Adjacent Regions
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    Chapter 42 The Jamaican Bauxite Industry: Glimpses Into Its Past, Present, and Future
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    Chapter 43 Mineral-Energy Resources in the Dominican Republic
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    Chapter 44 Selected Precious-Metal Occurrences in the Lesser Antilles
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    Chapter 45 Biogeochemistry for Future Mineral Resource Exploration Programs in the Central American-Caribbean Region
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    Chapter 46 Industrial Minerals—Key to Economic Development
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    Chapter 47 The Occurrence, Production, and Trade of Non-Metallic Industrial Minerals in Costa Rica
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    Chapter 48 A Provisional Study of Costa Rican Diatomites as Raw Materials for Filter-Aids
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    Chapter 49 The Distinctive Hydrology of Tropical Islands
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    Chapter 50 A Quaternary Volcanic Aquifer System in Central America: Key Factors in Groundwater Potential and Protection
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    Chapter 51 Structure and Depositional Patterns and Their Influence on the Hydraulic Conductivity of Fan-Deltas in Southern Puerto Rico
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    Chapter 52 Karst Localities in Costa Rica and Their Geologic Background
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    Chapter 53 Landslides on the Panama Canal
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    Chapter 54 Geologic Hazards in Honduras
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    Chapter 55 Extent and Socio-Economic Significance of Slope-Instability on the Island of Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic)
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    Chapter 56 Use of Seismic Refraction Techniques for Investigating Recent Landslides in a Tropical Rain Forest in Puerto Rico
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Title
Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American-Caribbean Region
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-79476-6
ISBNs
978-3-64-279478-0, 978-3-64-279476-6
Editors

Miller, Ralph L., Escalante, Gregorio, Reinemund, John A., Bergin, Marion J.

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