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Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest

Author : Bruce Norman Bjornstad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030530434
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest written by Bruce Norman Bjornstad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago. The scale of Ice Age floods was so huge that today it is often difficult to see and appreciate the power and magnitude of such megafloods from ground level. However, from the air, landforms created by the floods often come into clear focus. Aerial images, obtained via unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) as well as fixed-wing airplane, add a new perspective on evidence gathered by dozens of scientists since 1923.

On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods

Author : Bruce N. Bjornstad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879628274
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods written by Bruce N. Bjornstad and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Glacial Lake Missoula

Author : David D. Alt
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878424153
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Glacial Lake Missoula written by David D. Alt and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that drained suddenly--not just once but repeatedly--and reshaped the landscape of the Northwest. The narrative follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, then scoured through eastern Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific Ocean.

Roots and Reflections

Author : Amy Bhatt
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804556
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Roots and Reflections written by Amy Bhatt and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants from South Asia first began settling in Washington and Oregon in the nineteenth century, but because of restrictions placed on Asian immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, the vast majority have come to the region since World War II. Roots and Reflections uses oral history to show how South Asian immigrant experiences were shaped by the region and how they differed over time and across generations. It includes the stories of immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka who arrived from the end of World War II through the 1980s. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHjtOvH0YdU&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=3&feature=plcp

Iceland Imagined

Author : Karen Oslund
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029599083X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Iceland Imagined written by Karen Oslund and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geology, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe. The book closes with a discussion of Iceland's modern whaling practices and its recent financial collapse.

South with Endurance

Author : Frank Hurley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074322292X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book South with Endurance written by Frank Hurley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of Frank Hurley's amazing photos from Shackleton's Antarctic expedition is the first book to reproduce all the surviving expedition photos, some of which have never been published. Over 450 photos.

Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World

Author : James Elliot Snead
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816523085
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World written by James Elliot Snead and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eastern Pueblo heartland, located in the northern Rio Grande country of New Mexico, has fascinated archaeologists since the 1870s. In Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, James Snead uses an exciting new approachÑ landscape archaeologyÑto understand ancestral Pueblo communities and the way the people consciously or unconsciously shaped the land around them. Snead provides detailed insight into ancestral Puebloan cultures and societies using an approach he calls Òcontextual experience,Ó employing deep mapping and community-scale analysis. This strategy goes far beyond the standard archaeological approaches, using historical ethnography and contemporary Puebloan perspectives to better understand how past and present Pueblo worldviews and meanings are imbedded in the land. Snead focuses on five communities in the Pueblo heartlandÑBurnt Corn, TÕobimpaenge, Tsikwaiye, Los Aguajes, and TsankawiÑusing the results of intensive archaeological surveys to discuss the changes that occurred in these communities between AD 1250 and 1500. He examines the history of each area, comparing and contrasting them via the themes of Òprovision,Ó Òidentity,Ó and Òmovement,Ó before turning to questions regarding social, political, and economic organization. This revolutionary study thus makes an important contribution to landscape archaeology and explains how the Precolumbian Pueblo landscape was formed.

To Master the Boundless Sea

Author : Jason W. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640457
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book To Master the Boundless Sea written by Jason W. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.

The Frog who Wanted to See the Sea

Author : Guy Billout
Publisher : The Creative Company
ISBN 13 : 9781568461885
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Frog who Wanted to See the Sea written by Guy Billout and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling adventurous one day, a frog leaves her pond and sets out to visit the great sea she has heard so much about.

Underwater Kingdom of the Sea

Author : Diana Gomez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514459027
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Underwater Kingdom of the Sea written by Diana Gomez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we really know about our ancestors? This is a question that faces our hero Carlos Montes the son of a wealthy Fabric Warehouse owned and run by his mother Elena Montes. Carlos discovers who he really is through a twist of fate he can not escape as he runs from the law and accidently is hurled to the depths of the ocean and carried to an underwater Castel. He is transformed into a Mer-Man and develops amnesia. Forced into living a new lifestyle he soon discovers that he is the son of the underwater Sea King.

Baffin Island

Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552388297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Baffin Island written by Jack D. Ives and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the "golden age" of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources travelled to Baffin to study glacial geomorphology and glaciology. Their fieldwork resulted in vastly increased knowledge of the Far North-from its ice caps and glaciers to its lichens and microfossils. Drawing from the recollections of his Baffin colleagues as well as from his own memories, Ives takes readers on a remarkable adventure, describing the day-to-day experiences of the field teams in the context of both contemporary Arctic research and bureaucratic decision making. Along the way, his narrative illustrates the role played by the Cold War-era Distant Early Warning Line and other northern infrastructure, the crucial importance of his pioneering aerial photography, the unpredictable nature of planes, helicopters, and radios in Arctic regions, and of course, the vast and breathtaking scenery of the North. Baffin Island encompasses both field research and High Arctic adventure. The research trips to Baffin between 1961 and 1967 also served as a vital training ground in polar studies for university students; further, they represented a breakthrough in gender equality in government-sponsored science, thanks to the author's persistence in having women permitted on the teams. The book contains a special section detailing the subsequent professional achievements of the many researchers involved (in addition to the later career moves of Ives himself) and a chapter that delves deeper into the science behind their fieldwork in the North. Readers need not be versed in glaciology, however. Ives has produced a highly readable book that seamlessly combines research and adventure.

The Dead Sea and the Jordan River

Author : Barbara Kreiger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019591
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Sea and the Jordan River written by Barbara Kreiger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance. In this exceptionally engaging and readable book, Barbara Kreiger chronicles the natural and human history of these storied bodies of water, drawing on accounts by travelers, pilgrims, and explorers from ancient times to the present. She conveys the blend of spiritual, touristic, and scientific motivations that have driven exploration and describes the modern exploitation of the lake and the surrounding area through mineral extraction and agriculture. Today, both lake and river are in crisis, and stewardship of these water resources is bound up with political conflicts in the region. The Dead Sea and the Jordan River combines history, literature, travelogue, and natural history in a way that makes it hard to put down.

Houses by the Sea

Author : Mauricio Martinez
Publisher : Amaroma Ediciones
ISBN 13 : 9789709241075
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Houses by the Sea written by Mauricio Martinez and published by Amaroma Ediciones. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most architecturally beautiful houses grace the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The lighting, color and dramatic landscape make this a captivating book.

A History of the Arctic

Author : John McCannon
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780230761
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Arctic written by John McCannon and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitter cold and constant snow. Polar bears, seals, and killer whales. Victor Frankenstein chasing his monstrous creation across icy terrain in a dogsled. The arctic calls to mind a myriad different images. Consisting of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, the United States, Russia, Greenland, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the arctic possesses a unique ecosystem—temperatures average negative 29 degrees Fahrenheit in winter and rarely rise above freezing in summer—and the indigenous peoples and cultures that live in the region have had to adapt to the harsh weather conditions. As global temperatures rise, the arctic is facing an environmental crisis, with melting glaciers causing grave concern around the world. But for all the renown of this frozen region, the arctic remains far from perfectly understood. In A History of the Arctic, award-winning polar historian John McCannon provides an engaging overview of the region that spans from the Stone Age to the present. McCannon discusses polar exploration and science, nation-building, diplomacy, environmental issues, and climate change, and the role indigenous populations have played in the arctic’s story. Chronicling the history of each arctic nation, he details the many failed searches for a Northwest Passage and the territorial claims that hamper use of these waterways. He also explores the resources found in the arctic—oil, natural gas, minerals, fresh water, and fish—and describes the importance they hold as these resources are depleted elsewhere, as well as the challenges we face in extracting them. A timely assessment of current diplomatic and environmental realities, as well as the dire risks the region now faces, A History of the Arctic is a thoroughly engrossing book on the past—and future—of the top of the world.

Sky and Ocean Joined

Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521815994
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Sky and Ocean Joined written by Steven J. Dick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.

Salton Sea Atlas

Author : Redlands Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
Publisher : ESRI, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1589480430
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Salton Sea Atlas written by Redlands Institute (Redlands, Calif.) and published by ESRI, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive scientific, historical, and physcial representation of the Salton Sea region utilizing the latest GIS technology

Jet City Rewind

Author : Timothy A. Nelson
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764351068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Jet City Rewind written by Timothy A. Nelson and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of human flight to today, Seattle has hosted flying history from dirigibles and fabric biplanes to jumbo jets, from epic pioneering flights to innovative companies making world travel routine. This book recaptures that historical awe and connects it with a sense of place. These subjects may span decades of existence or represent a single day's events. Some are inspiring places of creativity and innovation, some are grim accident sites. All have some significance to the story of flight in the region. Do you know the exact spot of the first airplane flight in the area? How about where The Boeing Company began? Where did the top secret XB-29 prototype crash during its urgent WWII test program? Where did the first non-stop flight across the Pacific end? This book will answer those questions and many more as we dig into the aviation archaeology of the "Jet City" and its surroundings.