The Book Of Unconformities
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The Book Of Unconformities
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Author : Hugh Raffles
language : en
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
Release Date : 2022-04-18
The Book Of Unconformities written by Hugh Raffles and has been published by Verse Chorus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-18 with Social Science categories.
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Insectopedia
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Author : Hugh Raffles
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-03-22
Insectopedia written by Hugh Raffles and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-22 with Nature categories.
A New York Times Notable Book A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world. For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant companions. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: those that eat our food, share our beds, and live in our homes. Organizing his book alphabetically, Hugh Raffles weaves together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, taking the reader on a mesmerizing exploration of history and science, anthropology and travel, economics, philosophy, and popular culture. Insectopedia shows us how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our passions, and beguiled our imaginations.
Ossianic Unconformities
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Author : Eric Gidal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Ossianic Unconformities written by Eric Gidal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary forgeries and mystifications categories.
Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception history of the poems of Ossian, this book examines a uniquely modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the rapidly changing landscapes of an industrial world. --
In Amazonia
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Author : Hugh Raffles
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-27
In Amazonia written by Hugh Raffles and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-27 with Nature categories.
The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining richly textured ethnographic research and lively historical analysis, Raffles weaves a fascinating story that changes our understanding of this region and challenges us to rethink what we mean by "nature." Raffles draws from a wide range of material to demonstrate--in contrast to the tendency to downplay human agency in the Amazon--that the region is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. He moves between a detailed narrative that analyzes the production of scientific knowledge about Amazonia over the centuries and an absorbing account of the extraordinary transformations to the fluvial landscape carried out over the past forty years by the inhabitants of Igarapé Guariba, four hours downstream from the nearest city. Engagingly written, theoretically inventive, and vividly illustrated, the book introduces a diverse range of characters--from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders. A natural history of a different kind, In Amazonia shows how humans, animals, rivers, and forests all participate in the making of a region that remains today at the center of debates in environmental politics.
Geological Well Logs
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Author : S. Luthi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2001-04-10
Geological Well Logs written by S. Luthi and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-10 with Science categories.
Logging has come a long way from the simple electrical devices of the early years. Today's tools are considerably more accurate and are used for an increasingly diverse number of tasks. Among these are tools that characterise geological properties of rocks in the borehole. Combined with new technology to drill deviated wells, the geoscientist now has tools which allow him to characterise and develop reservoirs more accurately than ever. This book, written for researchers, graduate students and practising geoscientists, documents these techniques and illustrates their use in a number of typical case studies.
Grand Canyon Geology
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Author : J. Michael Timmons
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 2012
Grand Canyon Geology written by J. Michael Timmons and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Science categories.
The Book Of Unconformities
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Author : Hugh Raffles
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2020-08-25
The Book Of Unconformities written by Hugh Raffles and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Science categories.
From the author of the acclaimed Insectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present When Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. As Raffles follows these fundamental objects, unearthing the events they’ve engendered, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious, indifferent, and willful as time itself.
The Geology Of Stratigraphic Sequences
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Author : Andrew D. Miall
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1997
The Geology Of Stratigraphic Sequences written by Andrew D. Miall and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Science categories.
This book provides a unique survey of the worldwide database of sequence stratigraphy, reviews the methods for describing sequences and assessing causes of sequence generation, and provides an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of sequence development. The book reviews the present status of global cycle correlation and the hypothesis of global eustacy, and examines the applications of sequence stratigraphy to studies in practical petroleum geology. Students, lecturers, researchers, and practitioners are provided with a critical, but balanced, appraisal of modern concepts in this rapidly developing and controversial area. Ideas and concepts originating from a wide range of individuals and "schools" of thought are discussed and evaluated. A very extensive bibliography is included.
Elemental
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Author : Erika Kobayashi
language : en
Publisher: Calico
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Elemental written by Erika Kobayashi and has been published by Calico this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Fiction categories.
Elemental, the third book in the Calico Series from Two Lines Press, is a whirlwind of fiction and reportage from Japan, Iran, Germany, Israel, Poland, Madagascar, Norway, and Iraq that explores how earth, wind, water, and fire continue to shape our narratives and alter our existence.
Interregional Unconformities And Hydrocarbon Accumulation
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Author : John Stevens Schlee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Interregional Unconformities And Hydrocarbon Accumulation written by John Stevens Schlee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Science categories.