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Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau

Author : Ronald C. Blakey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau written by Ronald C. Blakey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world's foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney's fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features: More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region

Landscapes of Colorado

Author : Ann Scarlett Daley
Publisher : SF Design, LLC / Frescobooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Colorado written by Ann Scarlett Daley and published by SF Design, LLC / Frescobooks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview of the rich vein of contemporary art in Colorado highlights the varied work created in response to the natural beauty of the state.

The Greater Chaco Landscape

Author : Ruth M. Van Dyke
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646421701
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Greater Chaco Landscape written by Ruth M. Van Dyke and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate potential conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon⁠ and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology. Contributors analyze many different dimensions of the Chacoan landscape and present the most effective, innovative, and respectful means of studying them, focusing on the significance of thousand-year-old farming practices; connections between early great houses outside the canyon and the rise of power inside it; changes to Chaco’s roads over time as observed in aerial imagery; rock art throughout the greater Chaco area; respectful methods of examining shrines, crescents, herraduras, stone circles, cairns, and other landscape features in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues; sensory experiences of ancient Chacoans via study of the sightlines and soundscapes of several outlier communities; and current legal, technical, and administrative challenges and options concerning preservation of the landscape. An unusually innovative and timely volume that will be available both in print and online, with the online edition incorporating video chapters presented by Acoma, Diné, Zuni, and Hopi cultural experts filmed on location in Chaco Canyon, The Greater Chaco Landscape is a creative collaboration with Native voices that will be a case study for archaeologists and others working on heritage management issues across the globe. It will be of interest to archaeologists specializing in Chaco and the Southwest, interested in remote sensing and geophysical landscape-level investigations, and working on landscape preservation and phenomenological investigations such as viewscapes and soundscapes. Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky, G. B. Cornucopia, Timothy de Smet, Sean Field, Richard A. Friedman, Dennis Gilpin, Presley Haskie, Tristan Joe, Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas Lincoln, Michael P. Marshall, Terrance Outah, Georgiana Pongyesva, Curtis Quam, Paul F. Reed, Octavius Seowtewa, Anna Sofaer, Julian Thomas, William B. Tsosie Jr., Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Ernest M. Vallo Jr., Carla R. Van West, Ronald Wadsworth, Robert S. Weiner, Thomas C. Windes, Denise Yazzie, Eurick Yazzie

Colorado Landscapes

Author : Loveland Museum and Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Colorado Landscapes written by Loveland Museum and Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essay, timeline, and artists' biographies: Adams, Bakos, Biddle, Bierstadt, Bunnell, Burr, Byxbe, Carlson, Chain, Collier, Drewelowe, Hamilton, Jackson, Kensett, Kirkland, Knopf, Lawson, Lillywhite, Magafan, Moran, Reid, Sandzen, Smillie, Tallant, Vavra, Whittredge, and Young

Creating Colorado

Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300071184
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Creating Colorado written by William Wyckoff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts--these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this fascinating book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a larger America and showing that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment. Wyckoff discusses how nature, capitalism, a growing federal political presence, and national cultural influences came together to produce a new human geography in Colorado. He explains the ways in which the state's distinctive settlement geographies each took on a special character that persists to the present. He leads the reader through the transformation of the state from wilderness to a distinct region capable of accommodating the diverse needs of ranchers, miners, merchants, farmers, and city dwellers. And he describes how a state created out of cartographic necessity has been given uniqueness and meaning by the people who live there.

The New West

Author : Joshua Chuang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869309002
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The New West written by Joshua Chuang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, this book is now regarded as a classic book of photography in the pantheon of landmark projects exploring American culture and society.

The New West

Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The New West written by Robert Adams and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ecology of Colorado

Author : Allen Crockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781497432796
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Ecology of Colorado written by Allen Crockett and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ecology of Colorado" describes the landscapes, plants, and wildlife of the state's eastern plains, central mountains, and western plateaus and basins. The descriptions address the physical factors that most strongly influence the composition and processes of plant and animal communities. Adaptations of selected species or groups of species are used to highlight general principles of ecology and evolution. The book mentions virtually all of Colorado's vertebrate wildlife and more than 1,200 plant species. The text, written in a conversational style, is supplemented by 336 color photographs and numerous personal experiences.

Profiting from the Peak

Author : John Harner
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 164642168X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Profiting from the Peak written by John Harner and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado Springs, Colorado, has long profited from Pikes Peak and built an urban infrastructure to sustain that relationship. In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces. He examines the cultural values that have come to define the city, showing how military and other institutions, tourism, political and economic conditions, cultural movements, key individual actors, and administrative policies have created a singular urban personality. Capital accumulation has been a defining theme of Colorado Springs from its very beginning, with enormous profits generated from regional industrialization, railroads, land sales, water appropriation, and extraction of coal and gold. These conditions and its setting in the Rocky Mountain West formed a libertarian-oriented, limited governance philosophy. This persistent prioritization of liberty at the heart of Colorado Springs’s identity, specifically the freedom to conduct business and generate profits in a relatively unconstrained setting, has directed the urban sprawl of the built landscape and molded the region’s political culture. Profiting from the Peak will be of interest to historical and urban geographers, historians of Colorado and the American West, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the cultural identity of Colorado Springs.

Ancient Landscapes of Western North America

Author : Ronald C. Blakey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319596365
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of Western North America written by Ronald C. Blakey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas’ shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before. Winner of the 2021 John D. Haun Landmark Publication Award, AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section

Colorado Byways

Author : Thomas Patrick Huber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Colorado Byways written by Thomas Patrick Huber and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes of Colorado rank as some of the spectacular, varied, and expansive of any of the fifty states. This book brings the natural and human stories of the twenty-one designated byways into focus. It offers a look at the out-of-the-way landscapes that make Colorado special.

Colorado

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966678604
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richness and diversity of the Colorado Landscape is beautifully captured through the eyes of nature photographer Dave Clack. His work reflects the essense of the Colorado wilderness. From pristine snowcapped mountains to the intimate relationship between trees, water and rocks, Dave's photography ignites an appreciation for nature. As you journey through the pages of this book, you will experience some of the beauty and grandeur that is Colorado.

Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains

Author : Laura L. Scheiber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains written by Laura L. Scheiber and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme - that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: o Paul Burnett o Oskar Burger o Minette C. Church o Philip Duke o Kevin Gilmore o Eileen Johnson o Mark D. Mitchell o Michael R. Peterson o Lawrence Todd

Vacationland

Author : William Philpott
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804610
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Vacationland written by William Philpott and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so long ago, the high country was isolated and little visited. Vacationland tells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism: ski mountains, stocked trout streams, motels, resort villages, and highway improvements that culminated in an entirely new corridor through the Rockies, Interstate 70. Vacationland is more than just the tale of one tourist region. It is a case study of how the consumerism of the postwar years rearranged landscapes and revolutionized American environmental attitudes. Postwar tourists pioneered new ways of relating to nature, forging surprisingly strong personal connections to their landscapes of leisure and in many cases reinventing their lifestyles and identities to make vacationland their permanent home. They sparked not just a population boom in popular tourist destinations like Colorado but also a new kind of environmental politics, as they demanded protection for the aesthetic and recreational qualities of place that promoters had sold them. Those demands energized the American environmental movement-but also gave it blind spots that still plague it today. Peopled with colorful characters, richly evocative of the Rocky Mountain landscape, Vacationland forces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and place.

Xeriscape Colorado

Author : Connie Lockhart Ellefson
Publisher : Westcliffe Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781565794955
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Xeriscape Colorado written by Connie Lockhart Ellefson and published by Westcliffe Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado's booming population and recent drought have made wise water use a top priority in the Centennial State. Whether you're establishing a new Xeriscape or you wish to transform your existing landscape into a lush yet water-thrifty oasis, Xeriscape Colorado shows you exactly how. Landscape designer Connie Lockhart Ellefson and Denver Water's David Winger take you step by step through the seven principles of Xeriscape: planning and design, soil analysis and improvement, practical turf areas, informed plant choice, efficient irrigation, mulching, and maintenance. Book jacket.

Colorado, Images of the Alpine Landscape

Author : John Fielder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942394108
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Colorado, Images of the Alpine Landscape written by John Fielder and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Consuming Colorado

Author : William P. Philpott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Colorado written by William P. Philpott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: