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Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.

Welland, Michael, 1946-
2009
QE471.15.S25 W455 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.
Author
Welland, Michael, 1946-
ISBN
9780520254374 (alk. paper)
0520254376 (alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Description
xiv, 343 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
Call Number
QE471.15.S25 W455 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
553.6/22
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 the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index.
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Individuals : birth and character
Tribes : the strange world of granular materials
Sand and imagination I : very large numbers of very small things
Societies on the move : a journey to the sea
Moving on : waves, tides, and storms
Blowing in the wind : desert landscapes
Witness : testaments of sand
Sand and imagination II : stories, medium, and muse
Servant : sand in our lives
Outward and onward : beyond Earth, beyond the present.

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