Studies in Flood Geology

Studies in Flood Geology
Title Studies in Flood Geology PDF eBook
Author John Woodmorappe
Publisher Inst for Creation Research
Pages 231
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780932766540

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A Geology of Media

A Geology of Media
Title A Geology of Media PDF eBook
Author Jussi Parikka
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 204
Release 2015-03-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1452944571

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Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves—Earth’s history, geological formations, minerals, and energy. And to do so, writes Jussi Parikka, is to confront the profound environmental and social implications of this ubiquitous, but hardly ephemeral, realm of modern-day life. Exploring the resource depletion and material resourcing required for us to use our devices to live networked lives, Parikka grounds his analysis in Siegfried Zielinski’s widely discussed notion of deep time—but takes it back millennia. Not only are rare earth minerals and many other materials needed to make our digital media machines work, he observes, but used and obsolete media technologies return to the earth as residue of digital culture, contributing to growing layers of toxic waste for future archaeologists to ponder. He shows that these materials must be considered alongside the often dangerous and exploitative labor processes that refine them into the devices underlying our seemingly virtual or immaterial practices. A Geology of Media demonstrates that the environment does not just surround our media cultural world—it runs through it, enables it, and hosts it in an era of unprecedented climate change. While looking backward to Earth’s distant past, it also looks forward to a more expansive media theory—and, implicitly, media activism—to come.

Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change

Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change
Title Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change PDF eBook
Author Lee C. Gerhard
Publisher AAPG
Pages 330
Release 2001
Genre Climatic changes
ISBN 0891810544

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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology

The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology
Title The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology PDF eBook
Author Johns Hopkins University. Department of Geology
Publisher
Pages 974
Release 1925
Genre
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Geology Studies

Geology Studies
Title Geology Studies PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 148
Release 1993
Genre Geology
ISBN

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Geology and Plant Life

Geology and Plant Life
Title Geology and Plant Life PDF eBook
Author Arthur R. Kruckeberg
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 378
Release 2004
Genre Science
ISBN 9780295984520

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Before any other influences began to fashion life and its lavish diversity, geological events created the initial environments--both physical and chemical--for the evolutionary drama that followed. Drawing on case histories from around the world, Arthur Kruckeberg demonstrates the role of landforms and rock types in producing the unique geographical distributions of plants and in stimulating evolutionary diversification. His examples range throughout the rich and heterogeneous tapestry of the earth's surface: the dramatic variations of mountainous topography, the undulating ground and crevices of level limestone karst, and the subtle realm of sand dunes. He describes the ongoing evolutionary consequences of the geology-plant interface and the often underestimated role of geology in shaping climate. Kruckeberg explores the fundamental connection between plants and geology, including the historical roots of geobotany, the reciprocal relations between geology and other environmental influences, geomorphology and its connection with plant life, lithology as a potent selective agent for plants, and the physical and biological influences of soils. Special emphasis is given to the responses of plants to exceptional rock types and their soils--serpentines, limestones, and other azonal (exceptional) substrates. Edaphic ecology, especially of serpentines, has been his specialty for years. Kruckeberg's research fills a significant gap in the field of environmental science by connecting the conventionally separated disciplines of the physical and biological sciences. Geology and Plant Life is the result of more than forty years of research into the question of why certain plants grow on certain soils and certain terrain structures, and what happens when this relationship is disrupted by human agents. It will be useful to a wide spectrum of professionals in the natural sciences: plant ecologists, paleobiologists, climatologists, soil scientists, geologists, geographers, and conservation scientists, as well as serious amateurs in natural history.

Thinking about the Earth

Thinking about the Earth
Title Thinking about the Earth PDF eBook
Author David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 462
Release 1996
Genre Science
ISBN 9780674883826

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Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.