Stories in stone
travels through urban geology
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Author
Publication
2009 - Walker & Co., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestoriesinstonetr0000will
- ISBN-139780802716224
- ISBN-100802716229
- Goodreads6132337
- LibraryThing6948151
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008051667
- Library of Congress Control Number2009005609
- OCLC Control Number303927746
- Open LibraryOL22691713M
Classifications
- DDC553.5
- LCCQE39.5.U7 W55 2009
Description
Looking at the stone masonry, facades, and ornamentations of buildings, Williams sees a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics.He discusses a three-and-a-half-billion-year-old rock called Morton gneiss that is the color of swirled pink-and-black taffy; a 1935 gas station made of petrified wood; and a fort in St. Augustine, Florida, that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone (coquina) that has the consistency of a granola bar, and others. From publisher description.
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