Read more
Excerpt from Geology for Planning in Rock Island County, Illinois
Population growth and attendant expansion of urban areas in Rock Island County (fig. 1) are leading to increasingly intense use of the land and its resources. Although most of the land in the county is used for agriculture, most of the population - more than 80 percent - lives in urban areas. Urbanization, however, is in places restricted by natural limitations of the land; not all land is suited for the variety of human activities desired.
This report summarizes the available information on the geology, mineral resources, and hydrogeology of Rock Island County as it relates to land use and to regional planning. It is part of a program of environmental geology studies that was begun at the Illinois State Geological Survey in 1962 and that has included a number of previ ously published reports on geology for planning (fig.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
