Stories in stone : travels through urban geology / David B. Williams.
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TextPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 1 online resource (x, 260 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780295746470
- 0295746475
- 550 23
- QE39.5.U7 W55 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the 2019 Edition; Preface to the Original Edition; 1. "The Most Hideous Stone Ever Quarried"-New York Brownstone; 2. The Granite City-Boston Granite; 3. Poetry in Stone-Carmel Granite; 4. Deep Time in Minnesota-Minnesota Gneiss; 5. The Clam That Changed the World-Florida Coquina; 6. America's Building Stone-Indiana Limestone; 7. Pop Rocks, Pilfered Fossils, and Phillips Petroleum-Colorado Petrified Wood; 8. The Trouble with Michelangelo's Favorite Stone-Carrara Marble; 9. Reading, Writing, and Roofing-East Coast Slate
10. "Autumn 20,000 Years Ago"-Italian TravertineAcknowledgments; Geologic Time Scale for Building Stone; Glossary; Notes; Index
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