Author: Martha Kirk
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Green Sands is Kirk's chronicle of her life in the desert, told with exceptional candor and detail. Local Bedouins, foreign farm workers and their families, Saudi royalty, assorted Westerners, and fellow Americans share their desert world with Kirk. Her sincere curiosity, empathy, and warmth toward these new friends make her story entertaining as well as enlightening. There is a freshness to Kirk's perspective that puts the reader squarely in her shoes as she struggles to assimilate a culture so alien to her own and to embrace an adventure that few have the chance to experience. Martha Kirk shows her pioneering Texas spirit in the pages of Green Sands as she gamely kills camel spiders in the house, bravely risks imprisonment while driving the farm's pickup truck, and lovingly shares meals with Bedouin women and their children.
Green Sands
Author: Martha Kirk
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Green Sands is Kirk's chronicle of her life in the desert, told with exceptional candor and detail. Local Bedouins, foreign farm workers and their families, Saudi royalty, assorted Westerners, and fellow Americans share their desert world with Kirk. Her sincere curiosity, empathy, and warmth toward these new friends make her story entertaining as well as enlightening. There is a freshness to Kirk's perspective that puts the reader squarely in her shoes as she struggles to assimilate a culture so alien to her own and to embrace an adventure that few have the chance to experience. Martha Kirk shows her pioneering Texas spirit in the pages of Green Sands as she gamely kills camel spiders in the house, bravely risks imprisonment while driving the farm's pickup truck, and lovingly shares meals with Bedouin women and their children.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Green Sands is Kirk's chronicle of her life in the desert, told with exceptional candor and detail. Local Bedouins, foreign farm workers and their families, Saudi royalty, assorted Westerners, and fellow Americans share their desert world with Kirk. Her sincere curiosity, empathy, and warmth toward these new friends make her story entertaining as well as enlightening. There is a freshness to Kirk's perspective that puts the reader squarely in her shoes as she struggles to assimilate a culture so alien to her own and to embrace an adventure that few have the chance to experience. Martha Kirk shows her pioneering Texas spirit in the pages of Green Sands as she gamely kills camel spiders in the house, bravely risks imprisonment while driving the farm's pickup truck, and lovingly shares meals with Bedouin women and their children.
Reports of Geological Explorations During ... with Maps and Sections
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Pages : 264
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: Geological Society of London
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Quarterly Journal
Author: Geological Society of London
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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On the Probable Age of the London Clay, and Its Relations to the Hampshire and Paris Tertiary Systems Etc
Author: Joseph Prestwich
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Pages : 70
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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2007: Research, education, and economic programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
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Pages : 734
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Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
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Pages : 734
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Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
An Account of Works on Geology, Mineralogy, and Palaeontology Published During the Year...
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Pages : 466
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Sand and Sandstone
Author: F. J. Pettijohn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461210666
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The first edition appeared fourteen years ago. Since then there have been significant advances in our science that warrant an updating and revision of Sand and Sandstone. The main framework of the first edition has been retained so that the reader can begin with the mineralogy and textural properties of sands and sandstones, progress through their organization and classification and their study as a body of rock, to consideration of their origin-prove nance, transportation, deposition, and lithification-and finally to their place in the stratigraphic column and the basin. The last decade has seen the rise of facies analysis based on a closer look at the stratigraphic record and the recognition of characteristic bed ding sequences that are the signatures of some geologic process-such as a prograding shallow-water delta or the migration of a point bar on an alluvial floodplain. The environment of sand deposition is more closely determined by its place in such depositional systems than by criteria based on textural characteristics-the "fingerprint" approach. Our revi sion reflects this change in thinking. As in the geological sciences as a whole, the concept of plate tectonics has required a rethinking of our older ideas about the origin and accumu lation of sediments-especially the nature of the sedimentary basins.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461210666
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The first edition appeared fourteen years ago. Since then there have been significant advances in our science that warrant an updating and revision of Sand and Sandstone. The main framework of the first edition has been retained so that the reader can begin with the mineralogy and textural properties of sands and sandstones, progress through their organization and classification and their study as a body of rock, to consideration of their origin-prove nance, transportation, deposition, and lithification-and finally to their place in the stratigraphic column and the basin. The last decade has seen the rise of facies analysis based on a closer look at the stratigraphic record and the recognition of characteristic bed ding sequences that are the signatures of some geologic process-such as a prograding shallow-water delta or the migration of a point bar on an alluvial floodplain. The environment of sand deposition is more closely determined by its place in such depositional systems than by criteria based on textural characteristics-the "fingerprint" approach. Our revi sion reflects this change in thinking. As in the geological sciences as a whole, the concept of plate tectonics has required a rethinking of our older ideas about the origin and accumu lation of sediments-especially the nature of the sedimentary basins.