Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.
Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Date
2009.
Call Numbers
N553.622/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
Individuals -- Tribes -- Sand and imagination -- Societies on the move -- Moving on -- Blowing in the wind -- Witness -- Sand and imagination -- Servant -- Outward and onward.
Publication information
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
2009.
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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 aeons in 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...
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Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N553.622/1
Record Identifier
74VM0Zda5pmZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM0Zda5pmZ
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ISBN
9780520254374 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
553.622
MMS ID
991001619829702626
