Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802716229 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great book" according to Suineg. I work with stone daily. Design with it, detail it. I thought I knew a lot about it. And then this book taught me to see it in a new light. This is an excellent book. (). Building stone throughout the ages Ages both of human and geological history, that is. In this well-written book, the author discusses building stones that have been used in America (including the rocks from Italy), the history of their use by humans, their geological formation, and often how they were quarried. Sometimes ch. A fine general-interest pick for any library Geological finds aren't usually made inches from sidewalks of a major city or along rural roadsides - but natural history writer David Williams sees these discoveries everywhere, and in STORIES IN STONE he offers a survey of everyday stone appearing in modern life. From brownstone and grani
12 b&w photos. That's literally true of the petrified-wood gasoline station in Colorado, the stately edifices made of Indiana limestone formed from the carbonate shells of ancient mollusks, and the fossil-strewn and dinosaur-tracked slabs of New York's ubiquitous brownstone facades. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (The coquina stone of St. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Stone buildings are symbols of urban denaturation, but in this engaging pop-geology excavation, Williams sees them as biological en
He has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, and National Wildlife, and is a regular contributor to Earth. Williams is a freelance natural history writer. Based in Seattle on the western edge of the North American plate, he has taught geology in the classroom and in the field to people from ages 8 to 80. His regional books include Street-Smart Naturalist:
After reading his book, you will forever look at stone buildings with new eyes.. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on his explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink and black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood 300 years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Most people do not think to look for geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but for David B. Williams any rock used as building material can tell a fascinating story. In Stories in Stone, Williams also weaves in the cultural