Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 135 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 1246 Turkey Global Resources Turkey Categories Countries government and resources Although Turkey does not have major reserves of strategically vital resources like petroleum or materials used in advanced technology its holdings of heavy economic export items for other countries construction or middle-range technology needs are substantial. Turkey faces a major issue that may have important effects on thefuture development of its key resources application for admission to the European Union. If approved . participation could open attractive markets for some of Turkey s less developed resources. The Country Turkey occupies the major west Asian landmass known by modern geographers as Anatolia described in more traditional literature as Asia Minor . It also shares a portion of the Balkan Peninsula with borders with Greece and Bulgaria in southeastern Europe. It has extensive maritime coasts on the Black Sea the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean Sea. The eastern third of the country is mountainous. Turkey s population remains unevenly distributed with higher concentrations in the western portion and sparse population density in the mountainous regions to the east. Its economy depends heavily on agriculture although its highly educated middle and upper classes have contributed substantially to effective exploitation of several of its key resources. Borate Estimates indicate that Turkey holds about two-thirds of the world s borate reserves followed by the United States with major reserves in the California desert Russia and Argentina. Diverse and changing forms of demand as well as changing technological applications throughout the world tend to give this mineral different levels of importance. Commonplace include boric acid and cleaning abrasives. It is also used in commercial detergents for well-known bleaching effects and to balance acidity and alkalinity. In middle-level manufacturing borate is used in industrial production of glass paints and paper and in .
