Geopedia : a brief compendium of geologic curiosities
A garden of geologic delights for all earthlings, Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries -- from Acasta gneiss to Zircon -- this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that...
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| التنسيق: | Livre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
2022.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès INSA CVL |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Geopedia, a brief compendium of geologic curiosities, Marcia Bjornerud, 2022, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (xv-184 p.), 978-0-691-21257-9 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Acasta gneiss: the old world
- Allochthon: rocks that roam
- Amethyst: purple haze
- Amygdule: on the bubble
- Anthropocene: it's about time
- Areology: wars of the worlds
- Benioff-Wadati zone: off the deep end
- Bioturbation: the worm churns
- Boudin: secrets of sausage making
- Breccia: you're breaking up
- Brimstone: volcanic theology
- Chondrite: recipe for a small planet
- Cryogenian: many are cold but few are frozen
- Darcy: a truth universally acknowledged
- Deborah number: beyond measure
- Dreikanter: three, of a kind
- Eclogite: pulling its weight
- Ediacara: peaceable kingdom
- Erg: the sands of time
- Firn: snows of yesteryear
- Gastrolith: from the gizzards of lizards
- Geodynamo: electromagnetic blanket
- Geophagy: raw terroir
- Geosyncline: magic mountains
- Granitization: igneous agnostics
- Grus: things fall apart
- Haboob: dust in the wind
- Hoodoo: hats off
- Jökulhlaup: breaking the ice
- Karst: the holey land
- Katabatic winds: blow me down
- Kimberlite: diamonds are ephemeral
- Klippe: strata gone astray
- Komatiite: the rock that went extinct
- Lahar: abhorrent torrent
- Lazarus taxa: zombie fossils
- Lusi: its name is Mud
- Moho: setting boundaries
- Mylonite: faulty logic
- Namakier: salt - water = taffy
- Nuée ardente: cloud with a white-hot lining
- Nunatak: peaks in a blanket
- Nutation: nodding off
- Oklo: the original Manhattan project
- Ophiolite: crocodile rock
- Panthalassa: oceans of time
- Pedogenesis: dirt rich
- Pingo: young as the hills
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis
- Polynya: window of opportunity
- Porphyry: all crystals great and small