The face of the Earth : natural landscapes, science, and culture

The face of the Earth : natural landscapes, science, and culture / SueEllen Campbell ; with Alex Hunt [and others].

"This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains -- volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests -- to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories, The Face o...

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Main Author: Campbell, SueEllen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Nature and civilization.
Natural history.
natural sciences.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Natural history
Nature and civilization
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Landscapes of internal fire. On the spot : over a river of lava / SueEllen Campbell ; Prologue ; Imagining the interior ; On the spot : at the edge of an overthrust belt / Scott Denning ; Mundus subterraneus ; On the spot : among the Aeolian Islands / John Calderazzo ; The globe, tectonic plates, and mountain building ; On the spot : along the disturbance gradient / Charles Goodrich ; Volcanoes and their eruptions ; On the spot : approaching Chaíten volcano / Fred Swanson ; Hot springs and geysers
  • Climate and ice. Prologue ; On the spot : up and down the Himalaya / Ellen Wohl ; How the climate works ; The ghosts of climates past ; On the spot : on the Burren / Gerald Delahunty ; Our Ice Age ; Landscapes shaped by ice ; On the spot : in the channeled scablands / Mark Fiege ; Ice-age humans ; On the spot : on the Arctic tundra / Ellen Wohl ; The Little ice Age, glaciology, and the sublime ; On the spot : toward a glacier's edge / Ana Maria Spagna ; The story now
  • Wet and fluid. Prologue ; On the spot : in the rocky intertidal zone / Kathleen Dean Moore ; The water cycle ; On the spot : along a rain forest stream / Ellen Wohl ; The moving waters of rivers ; The dream of water in deserts ; The slow water of wetlands ; On the spot : at the bog on Céide Fields / Gerald Delahunty ; Peat, mires, bogs, fens ; On the spot : at Wicken Fen / Richard Kerridge ; Marshes and swamps ; Wet/dry ; On the spot : at the billabong / Deborah Bird Rose
  • Desert places, desert lives. Prologue ; On the spot : down a desert river canyon / SueEllen Campbell ; Dry, hot, windy, and dusty ; On the spot : in Jabal Ajā / Othman Llewellyn and Aishah Abdallah ; What we see ; On the spot : in the Chihuahuan desert / Tom Lynch ; Clever plants ; On the spot ; in the red center / Deborah Bird Rose ; Clever creatures ; On the spot : in the Negev Desert / Ellen Wohl ; The human desert
  • The complexities of the real. Prologue ; Underfoot ; On the spot : in Antarctica's Dry Valleys / Diana Wall ; Oceans of grass ; The shapes of complexity ; On the spot : on the chalk downs / Richard Kerridge ; Evolving together- ; On the spot : in the tallgrass prairie / Bruce Campbell ; -And moving apart ; On the spot : on the Tibetan Plateau / Julia Klein ; Among trees ; On the spot : in a eucalypt forest / Kate Rigby ; Zooming in ; Return to wonder
  • Epilogue. In a high flower meadow / SueEllen Campbell.

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