| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Individuals -- Tribes -- Sand and imagination -- Societies on the move -- Moving on -- Blowing in the wind -- Witness -- Sand and imagination -- Servant -- Outward and onward |
| Summary |
From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, Sand examines the science-sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration-and at the same time explores the rich human context of sand. Interwoven with tales of artists, mathematicians, explorers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Sand -- Miscellanea
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Sandstone -- Miscellanea
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Silicon Dioxide
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silica (mineral)
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NATURE -- General.
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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NATURE -- Rocks & Minerals.
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Sand
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Sandstone
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Sand
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Sandstein
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Sand.
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Jorderosion -- historia.
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Marklära -- historia.
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Öknar.
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| Genre/Form |
miscellanies.
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Miscellanées.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008009084 |
| ISBN |
9780520942004 |
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0520942000 |
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1299132308 |
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9781299132306 |
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