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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cohen, Michael P., 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cohen, Michael P., > 1944-
Natural history.
Hiking.
Hikers.
Granite.
Geology.
NATURE > Rocks & Minerals.
Sciences naturelles > Californie > Yosemite National Park.
Geologie > Californie > Yosemite National Park.
Granit > Californie > Yosemite National Park.
Hiking > California > Yosemite National Park.
Hikers > Biography.
Natural history > California > Yosemite National Park.
Geology > California > Yosemite National Park.
Granite > California > Yosemite National Park.
California > Yosemite National Park.
California > Tuolumne Meadows.
Tuolumne Meadows (Calif.)
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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