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Author Welland, Michael, 1946-

Title Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
©2009

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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  553.622 WEL    Storage
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  533 WEL    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  553.62 WELLAND    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  553.622 W45    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  553.622 WELLAND    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  553.622 WE    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 343 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index.
Summary From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.
Contents Individuals : birth and character -- Tribes : the strange world of granular materials -- Sand and imagination I : very large numbers of very small things -- Societies on the move : a journey to the sea -- Moving on : waves, tides, and storms -- Blowing in the wind : desert landscapes -- Witness : testaments of sand -- Sand and imagination II : stories, medium, and muse -- Servant : sand in our lives -- Outward and onward : beyond Earth, beyond the present.
Subject Sand -- Miscellanea.
Sandstone -- Miscellanea.
ISBN 9780520254374 cloth alkaline paper
0520254376 cloth alkaline paper
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