Sand : a journey through science and the imagination
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Sand : a journey through science and the imagination
Oxford University Press, 2010
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First published 2009. First published in paperback 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is all about sand - sand in individual grains, each one a little different; sand in piles; sand in shoals and dunes; the science of sand but also, shot through the book, sand and imagination - the art and the music of sand. Did you know that the Sand Mountain in Nevada emits a low C, while dunes in Chile sound an F, and those in Morocco a G#? For all its ubiquity, sand is an extraordinary substance. For scientists, it is important in many ways: it represents the crushed remains of past rock, and builds up into layers in lake and ocean beds, layers of sandstone from which we can extract the history of deep time; its erosion creates complex landscapes of mounds and dunes which move in characteristic ways; its grains are remarkable individually and in their behaviour together as a granular material. And to travellers, poets and artists, the deserts it forms are full of grandeur and pathos. Michael Welland is a geologist who has a passion for sand. He shows that truly, one can see a world, both in space and time, in a grain of sand.
目次
- 1. Individuals: birth and character
- 2. Tribes: the strange world of granular materials
- 3. Sand and imagination: very large numbers of very small things
- 4. Societies on the move: journeys to the sea
- 5. Moving on: waves, tides, and storms
- 6. Blowing in the wind: desert landscapes
- 7. Witness: testaments of sand
- 8. Sand and imagination: stories, medium, and muse
- 9. Servant: sand in our lives
- 10. Outward and onward
- Epilogue: desert mysteries
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