The Mountains That Remade America
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28964-2 (ISBN)
Craig H. Jones is Professor of Geological Sciences and Fellow with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published peer-reviewed research in Science, Nature, and prominent earth-science journals, and he is also the coauthor of Introduction to Applied Geophysics. He blogs as the Grumpy Geophysicist.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1 • An Asymmetric Barrier
2 • A Golden Trinity
3 • A Placer for Everyone
4 • Fossil Rivers, Modern Water
5 • Lode Gold
6 • “A Property of No Value”
7 • Granite, Guardian of Wilderness
8 • Big Trees, Big Battles
9 • Mountains Adrift
10 • What Lies Beneath
11 • Paradoxes and Proxy Wars
Notes
References
Illustration Sources
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.09.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 19 b-w maps and 7 figures |
Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 726 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-28964-1 / 0520289641 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-28964-2 / 9780520289642 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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