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Mountains and Minerals/Rivers and Rocks
Meredith Dane Picard
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Description for Mountains and Minerals/Rivers and Rocks
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 271.
In this collection of essays, M. Dane (`Duke') Picard takes the reader on journeys across deserts, mountains, canyons, and rivers from the American Southwest to Italy and France. His blend of vivid description and humor evokes the rugged days of field petroleum geology in the Great Plains and pastel Badlands of Utah and Wyoming in the 1950s and later days unlocking the geological secrets of sandstone in the Rockies.
Along the way, he pokes gentle fun at the academic life in stories that will make anyone smile who's ever sat ... Read more
In this collection of essays, M. Dane (`Duke') Picard takes the reader on journeys across deserts, mountains, canyons, and rivers from the American Southwest to Italy and France. His blend of vivid description and humor evokes the rugged days of field petroleum geology in the Great Plains and pastel Badlands of Utah and Wyoming in the 1950s and later days unlocking the geological secrets of sandstone in the Rockies.
Along the way, he pokes gentle fun at the academic life in stories that will make anyone smile who's ever sat ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468464467
SKU
V9781468464467
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Reviews for Mountains and Minerals/Rivers and Rocks
`The thing that strikes me again and again about Picard's essays is their deep sensitivity and candor ... Picard has a puckish wit and an ability to recognise the foibles of academic and industrial geologists and to skewer the pompous, the officious, and the arrogant, while making us all recognise these tendencies in ourselves.' ... Read more