Sand: A journey through science and the imagination

Paperback • 2010 • English

Sand: A journey through science and the imagination

By Michael Welland

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About the book

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. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, Sand examines the science—sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration—and at the same time explores ...Show more

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9780199563180

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Sand: A journey through science and the imagination

Format

Paperback

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