Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-250) and index. |
Contents |
"The most hideous stone ever quarried" : New York brownstone -- The granite city : Boston granite -- Poetry in stone : Carmel granite -- Deep time in Minnesota : Minnesota gneiss -- The clam that changed the world : Florida coquina -- America's building stone : Indiana limstone -- Pop rocks, pilfered fossils, and Phillips petroleum : Colorado petrified wood -- The trouble with Michelangelo's favorite stone : Carrara marble -- Reading, writing, and roofing : East coast slate -- "Autumn 20,000 years ago" : Italian traverine. |
Subject |
Urban geology.
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Rocks.
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ISBN |
9780802716224 |
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0802716229 |
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