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Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book." Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Oil and Honey "Glassley exhibits an uncanny ability to put us in the midst of Greenland's vast silence, where he takes us deep into the planet's soul. It is...
Author
Series
Bulletin volume 70
Publisher
Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Right now, scientists are working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet--with huge contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten clouds and deflect sunlight, even artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the atmosphere. This is the radical and controversial world...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A stone is not just a stone. A stone is a story. Journey across history to see how one stone changes and transforms, from magma, oozing under Earth's crust, to sand ground down by a rushing river, to the heart of a mountain. Watch what happens when rain,ice, and wind mold this rock into something new, something you might even hold in your hand and imagine all that is left for the stone to become. Leslie Barnard Booth weaves captivating prose to answer...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Course covers the making of our planet from the Big Bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth. Travel to the center of our planet and out again, charting the geologic forces that churn beneath our feet to push the continents and seafloor.
72) Geologists
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information related to becoming a geologist, the education needed, the equipment used, and where they work.
73) Core geology
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In Core Geology, the building blocks of this most contemporary science are laid out in a logical order, including the meaning of the fossil record.
Author
Series
Information circular volume 6941
Publisher
Nevada Publications
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Information circular volume 6995
Publisher
Stanley Paher, Nevada Publications
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Topography, geology, ore deposits, mining development, maps"-- Cover.
77) Reno quadrangle
Series
Publisher
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
79) Forces of nature
Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A discussion of major types of natural disasters, including descriptions of some of the most destructive; explanations of these phenomena, what causes them, and where they occur; and information about how to prepare for and survive these forces of nature. Features include an activity, glossary, list of resources, and index"--Provided by publisher.
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