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Stories in Stone - Travels through Urban Geology (Paperback)
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Stories in Stone - Travels through Urban Geology (Paperback)
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List price R642
Loot Price R553
Discovery Miles 5 530
You Save R89 (14%)
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Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a
major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building
stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any
assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on
explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like
swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood,
and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of
attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the
consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural
history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from
Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states;
how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to
America's first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of
marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so
much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be
replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the
geology you can see in the structures of every city.
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