text Sand : the never-ending story
- Summary
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From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.
- Contents
- Individuals : birth and character -- Tribes : the strange world of granular materials -- Sand and imagination I : very large numbers of very small things -- Societies on the move : a journey to the sea -- Moving on : waves, tides, and storms -- B... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- xiv, 343 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 21 cm.
- Publisher
- University of California Press 2009
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 553.622 WEL in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 553.622 WEL in Adult Non-fiction | Available |