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Fieldwork - A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari (Hardcover)
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Fieldwork - A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Discovery Miles: 29 720
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Christopher Scholz, an internationally recognized expert in the
geological fields of seismology and tectonics, here offers a
captivating memoir of a three-month-long field expedition to
northern Botswana. Fieldwork tracks the adventures of a group of
American scientists trying to gather critical data in some of the
wildest and most inhospitable parts of Africa. Scholz effectively
captures the unique challenges and obstacles faced in this kind of
scientific endeavor, including mysterious encounters with a
primitive bushman tribe and unavoidable dealings with belligerent
local officials and even near-fatal stampedes by rampaging
elephants. It is through this absorbing tale that Scholz offers a
paean to the long and unique traditions of geological fieldwork,
and provides readers with an inside view of the trials and joys of
scientific fieldwork. The goal of the Scholz expedition was to
determine, by recording tiny natural earthquakes, if a previously
unknown arm of the East African Rift system had propagated into the
Kalahari Desert from the north. Fieldwork tracks the quest of the
scientist for a solution to a specific geological problem from the
motivations of the scientist, to the initial formulation of the
problem, through to the data collection, and finally, the assembly
of the critical evidence. Originally published in 1997. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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