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Author : Mary C. Rabbitt
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Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of the U.S. Geological Survey written by Mary C. Rabbitt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary C. Rabbitt
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The United States Geological Survey, 1879-1989 written by Mary C. Rabbitt and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the relation of geology during the first 110 years of the US Geological Survey to the development of public-land, federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United States.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book United States Geological Survey Yearbook written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (756 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of the U.S. Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary C. Rabbitt
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Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare: 1904-1939 written by Mary C. Rabbitt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence Edward Dutton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521814
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Tertiary History of the Grand Ca–on District written by Clarence Edward Dutton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic geological study of the Grand Canyon, commissioned by the fledgling U.S. Geological Survey, is admired today as much for its literary qualities as for its scientific value.
Author : P.R. Hill
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 1786204762
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Changing Role of Geological Surveys written by P.R. Hill and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior managers and Heads of Geological Survey Organizations (GSOs) from around the world have contributed a collection of papers to provide a benchmark on how GSOs are responding to national and international needs in a rapidly changing world. GSOs continue to provide key scientific information about Earth systems, natural hazards and climate change. As countries adopt sustainable development principles and the public increasingly turns to social media to find information about resource and environmental issues, the generation and communication of Earth science knowledge become increasingly important. This volume provides a snapshot of how GSOs are adapting their activities to this changing world. The different national perspectives presented converge around several common themes related to resources, environment and big data. Climate change and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals provide an increased incentive for GSOs of the world to work in harmony, to generate knowledge of Earth systems and to provide solutions for sustainable management of the planet.
Author : Susan C. Aragon-Long
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ISBN 13 : 9781411342323
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (423 download)
Download or read book A Snapshot of Women of the U.S. Geological Survey in STEM and Related Careers written by Susan C. Aragon-Long and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert W. Bally
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813754453
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Geology of North America—An Overview written by Albert W. Bally and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summaries of the major features of the geology of North America and the adjacent oceanic regions are presented in 20 chapters. Topics covered include concise reviews of current thinking about Precambrian basement, Phanerozoic orogens, cratonic basins, passive-margin geology of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, marine and terrestrial geology of the Caribbean region and economic geology.
Author : Marcus Baker
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Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book Survey of the Northwestern Boundary of the United States, 1857-1861 written by Marcus Baker and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauret Savoy
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026686
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Trace written by Lauret Savoy and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.
Author : William R. Keefer
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Geologic Story of Yellowstone National Park written by William R. Keefer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587296185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Grove Karl Gilbert written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert’s range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert described two novel forms of mountain building, invented the concept of the graded stream, inaugurated modern theories of lunar origin, helped found the science of geomorphology, and added to the canon of conservation literature. Gilbert knew most of geology's grand figures--including John Wesley Powell, Clarence Dutton, and Clarence King--and Pyne's chronicle of the imperturbable, quietly unconventional Gilbert is couterpointed with sketches of these prominent scientists. The man who wrote that "happiness is sitting under a tent with walls uplifted, just after a brief shower,", created answers to the larger questions of the earth in ways that have become classics of his science.
Author : Diane E Boyer
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Damming Grand Canyon written by Diane E Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand. With Boulder Dam not yet built, the USGS, especially La Rue, contested with the Bureau of Reclamation over how best to develop the Colorado River. The survey party played a major role in what was known and thought about Grand Canyon. The authors weave a narrative from the party's firsthand accounts and frame it with a thorough history of water politics and development and the Colorado River. The recommended dams were not built, but the survey both provided base data that stood the test of time and helped define Grand Canyon in the popular imagination. Also by Robert Webb: Lee's Ferry
Author : L M Bugayevskiy
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780748403042
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Map Projections written by L M Bugayevskiy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-06-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Map projection concerns the science of mathematical cartography, the techniques by which the Earth's dimensions, shape and features are translated in map form, be that two-dimensional paper or two- or three- dimensional electronic representations. The central focus of this book is on the theory of map projections. Mathematical cartography also takes in map scales and their variation, the division of maps into sets of sheets and nomenclature, and addresses the problems of making measurements and conducting investigations which make use of geodetic measurements and the development of graphical methods for solving problems of spherical trigonometry, marine- and aeronavigation, astronomy and even crystallography.
Author : Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research
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Total Pages : 190 pages
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Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey written by Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dvorak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135759
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book How the Mountains Grew written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise. But what were those forces? And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others? When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift. As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us. But tectonics cannot—and do not—explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape. What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses. A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, John Dvorak's How the Mountains Grew will fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.
