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Stories in stone : travels through urban geology / David B. Williams.
Van Pelt Library QE39.5.U7 W55 2009
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, David B., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban geology--United States.
- Urban geology.
- Urban geology--Italy.
- Italy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker, 2009.
- Contents:
- "The most hideous stone ever quarried" : New York brownstone
- The granite city : Boston granite
- Poetry in stone : Carmel granite
- Deep time in Minnesota : Minnesota gneiss
- The clam that changed the world : Florida coquina
- America's building stone : Indiana limestone
- Pop rocks, pilfered fossils, and Phillips petroleum : Colorado petrified wood
- The trouble with Michelangelo's favorite stone : Carrara marble
- Reading, writing, and roofing : East Coast slate
- "Autumn 20,000 years ago" : Italian travertine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802716224
- 0802716229
- OCLC:
- 303927746
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