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GEOTHERMAL
ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
SERIES EDITOR
Abbas Ghassemi
New Mexico State University
PUBLISHED TITLES
Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
William E. Glassley
Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Robert Foster, Majid Ghassemi, Alma Cota
te Moore, Vaughn Nelson
Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Vaughn Nelson
GEOTHERMAL
William E. Glassley
Boca Raton London New York
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Cover credit: The sources for the bottom three figures on the right side of the cover are as follows: Second figure from
top, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, photograph by Roger Hill of the Fly Ranch, Nevada, travertine deposits.
Third figure from top, photograph by Toni Boyd of mud pots near Mammoth Lakes, California, used by permission. Bot-
tom figure, photograph by Henry Veizades of MW geothermal power plant in Germencik, Turkey, used by permission
of the Geothermal Resources Council.
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