Author: Thomas Nelson Dale
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Category : Geology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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The Commercial Granites of New England
Author: Thomas Nelson Dale
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Category : Geology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Category : Geology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Reciprocal Landscapes
Author: Jane Hutton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317569059
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317569059
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
Geological Survey Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Report of Research and Technologic Work on Explosives, Explosions, and Flames
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines
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Category : Mine explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category : Mine explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Information Circular
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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The Commercial Granites of New England (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas Nelson Dale
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656470501
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Excerpt from The Commercial Granites of New England AS in the original bulletins, the general aim of this one is to pre sent the subject in both its economic and its general scientific aspects and to make the scientific part intelligible to the general reader. The economic part includes a chapter on the adaptations of New England granites and another on the economic geologic factors in granite quarrying, with some practical suggestions. A number of abandoned quarries are described with the active ones, either because of the scientific interest of their granite or their rock structure or because of their latent economic possibilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656470501
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Excerpt from The Commercial Granites of New England AS in the original bulletins, the general aim of this one is to pre sent the subject in both its economic and its general scientific aspects and to make the scientific part intelligible to the general reader. The economic part includes a chapter on the adaptations of New England granites and another on the economic geologic factors in granite quarrying, with some practical suggestions. A number of abandoned quarries are described with the active ones, either because of the scientific interest of their granite or their rock structure or because of their latent economic possibilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Appalachia
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Category : Appalachian Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Category : Appalachian Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains
Author: Charles Rowland Twidale
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781439833704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Granite is exposed over more than 15% of the continents, implying that its significance to the Earth’s surface is comparable to that of the carbonates. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains is devoted to this phenomenon and provides a comprehensive explanation of the landforms and landscapes developed on granitic rocks and forms. Whereas existing literature in the field predominantly deals with karst landscapes, this book is specifically focussed on granitic terrains. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains provides detailed considerations of the forms, major and minor, well-known and not so familiar granitic terrains, developed over large areas of the continents. It comprises interpretations which are of general significance in the analysis and understanding of the landscape and includes many theories in the context of granite landforms. The importance of structure, including crystal stresses, and the value of etching of subsurface initiation, multi-stages or two-stages development, neotectonic forms, solution forms is emphasized as well as the antiquity of some forms and surfaces (inherited forms). Morphogenetic forms are placed in perspective and comparison is made with similar forms in other rock types. This work is intended for geologists, geomorphologists, geographers and mining engineers and can serve both as a practical guide for professionals and as a textbook for university courses. Author, location and subject indices are included.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781439833704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Granite is exposed over more than 15% of the continents, implying that its significance to the Earth’s surface is comparable to that of the carbonates. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains is devoted to this phenomenon and provides a comprehensive explanation of the landforms and landscapes developed on granitic rocks and forms. Whereas existing literature in the field predominantly deals with karst landscapes, this book is specifically focussed on granitic terrains. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains provides detailed considerations of the forms, major and minor, well-known and not so familiar granitic terrains, developed over large areas of the continents. It comprises interpretations which are of general significance in the analysis and understanding of the landscape and includes many theories in the context of granite landforms. The importance of structure, including crystal stresses, and the value of etching of subsurface initiation, multi-stages or two-stages development, neotectonic forms, solution forms is emphasized as well as the antiquity of some forms and surfaces (inherited forms). Morphogenetic forms are placed in perspective and comparison is made with similar forms in other rock types. This work is intended for geologists, geomorphologists, geographers and mining engineers and can serve both as a practical guide for professionals and as a textbook for university courses. Author, location and subject indices are included.