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Granite and Grace : Seeking the Heart of Yosemite /
"Granite and grace: seeking the heart of Yosemite reflects on Valerie and Michael Cohen's fifty-year encounter with the granite in the high country of Yosemite National Park, where they seek a sense of belonging in an era called the Anthropocene. By creating a dialogue between geological a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Las Vegas :
University of Nevada Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Invocation : going to granite : Valerie and I walk to the Granite Lakes -- Human bodies : I experience granite by walking upon it -- Granite intrudes : what is granite and how is it formed? -- Up and down : mountains walking : walking as an incomplete narrative -- Glacial polish : what makes these rocks shine? -- Signs of exfoliation and change : granite comes apart! Fissures near and far -- Grace on granite : perceiving a granite landscape : why we all like rocks -- The transformation of things : becoming a voice of rock -- Out of bounds : mountain craft -- Rock and water : antiquarian interests : we live in a developed Yosemite -- Inside rock : why we go outside to visit rock -- Right and wrong kinds of rock : granite versus other rocks -- An Aristotelian mythology of geohistory : myth meets science in granite -- The purity of granite : is there such a thing as pure granite? -- A contingent earth : geologists' stories change, but earth does not repeat itself -- Myths of glaciers : imagining a glacial Yosemite -- Erratics, domes, and trundling : unmoved and moving rocks -- Iconic landscape : landmarks, large and small -- The sound of talus : can you run on broken rock? -- Fairview Dome : we consider the proliferation of domes -- Above and below : ghosts of glaciers : I go to Cathedral Peak to consider glacial polish -- Meandering around Matthes Crest : a walk around a hidden landmark -- The view from Pothole Dome : what is a dome and what can you see there? -- Granite at sunrise : granite as hieroglyph -- This is not a mountain : can the language of granitic rocks be simplified? -- Granite as enigma : things we don't know about granite and ourselves -- An edge of history : an edge of a continent : the Dana Plateau. | |
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