Author: Eduardo Masferré
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Eduardo Masferré
Publisher: Asiatype, Inc.
ISBN: 9719171200
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Robert S. Hildebrand
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724953
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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"In this well-illustrated book, Hildebrand expands upon his model for the development of the North American Cordillera detailed in Special paper 457. Starting with an overview of Cordilleran geology he goes on to provide an in depth look at how the Rubian ribbon continent was assembled. He integrates the complex geology of the Cordillera into an actualistic model involving arc magmatism, arc-continent collision, slab failure magmatism, and transcurrent motion in both Rubia and the western North American margin. While much of the focus is on the assembly of the Rubian ribbon continent, Hildebrand explores its interactions with North America during the Sevier and Laramide events and concludes that North America was the lower plate in both"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Jeremy Frimer
Publisher: Squamish, B.C. : Elaho Press
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Neil Pike
Publisher: Trailblazer Editions
ISBN: 9781905864638
Category : Blanca, Cordillera (Peru)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Guide to Peru's Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Huayhuash for hikers, cycle-tourists and mountain bikers. Includes 60 detailed route maps and guides to Lima, Huaraz and 5 other gateway towns.

Author: Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226865061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year exploration throughout South America, Mexico, and Cuba. The discoveries amassed by Humboldt and Bonpland were staggering, and much of today’s knowledge of tropical zoology, botany, geography, and geology can be traced back to Humboldt’s numerous records of these expeditions. One of these accounts, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, firmly established Alexander von Humboldt as the founder of Mesoamerican studies. In Views of the Cordilleras—first published in French between 1810 and 1813—Humboldt weaves together magnificently engraved drawings and detailed texts to achieve multifaceted views of cultures and landscapes across the Americas. In doing so, he offers an alternative perspective on the New World, combating presumptions of its belatedness and inferiority by arguing that the “old” and the “new” world are of the same geological age. This critical edition of Views of the Cordilleras—the second volume in the Alexander von Humboldt in English series—contains a new, unabridged English translation of Humboldt’s French text, as well as annotations, a bibliography, and all sixty-nine plates from the original edition, many of them in color.

Author: Terry W Swanson
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 9780813700045
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This title includes guides for field trips held in conjunction with the 2003 GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle. Topics covered include Glacial Lake Missoula and the Clark Fork Ice Dam; the Sauk Sequence in Utah; the geology of wine in Washington state; the Columbia River basalt and Yakima Fold Belt; Alpine glaciation of the North Cascades; and recent geoarchaeological discoveries in central Washington. Quaternary geology of Seattle, engineering geology in the central Columbia Valley, and the tephrostratigraphy and paleogeography of southern Puget Sound are also covered.

Author: Jacob M. Bendle
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832515525
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Vít Vilímek
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031582454
Category : Blanca, Cordillera (Peru)
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This book focuses on Perus highest and most glacierized mountain range the Cordillera Blanca. This mountain range experienced numerous disasters in the past (e.g. lake Palcacocha outburst in 1941, earthquake-induced ice and rock avalanche from Mt. Huascarn in 1970) and attracted the attention of researchers from around the world.The 15 chapters of the book span from broadly thematic topics of geology, geomorphology, climate, hydrology and hydrogeology, lakes, glaciation, and environmental settings to more specific topics and emergent themes of relevance for the Cordillera Blanca, including studies of various types of natural hazards (landslides, GLOFs). While most of the chapters focus on biophysical processes of the natural environment, several chapters explore the complex interactions between humans and environmental factors, providing insights and perspectives from social science and the humanities. This book is unprecedently comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge about the geo-environmental changes in the Cordillera Blanca.

Author: Cordillera Schools Group
Publisher:
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Category : Cordillera Administrative Region (Philippines)
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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