Uganda
Uganda

Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World
Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

Author: Alan Robert Woolley

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781862390836

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This text describes and provides ready access to the literature for all known occurrences of alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites of Africa. Over 1000 occurrences are described from 40 countries. The descriptions include geographical co-ordinates and information of structure, general geology, rock types, petrography, mineralogy, ages, economic aspects and principal references. There are 348 geological and distribution maps and a locality index.

Collected Works of Richard J. Chorley
Collected Works of Richard J. Chorley

Author: Richard J. Chorley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-10

Total Pages: 2491

ISBN-13: 1000398048

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Richard John Chorley was known as a leading figure in quantitative geography in the late 20th Century and played an instrumental role in bringing the use of systems theory to geography. This set of 7 reissued works either edited by or written by Chorley offers a great wealth of scholarship on geography and geomorphology.

Ground Truth
Ground Truth

Author: Ruby McConnell

Publisher: Overcup Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1732610339

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FINALIST for the 2021 Oregon Book Award. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in Ruby McConnell's Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life cover the vast terrain of this region &– from volcanoes to city parks, the eroding shorelines along the Oregon coast, badlands, lush forests, and city parks. Combining her background as a registered geologist, McConnell's essays also weave in personal landscapes composed of grief, loss, and optimism for the future of our environment. "The Pacific Northwest that you see today is the result of forty years of radical changes in the culture and economics of what was once a resource-extraction and agriculture-driven region. They are changes so fundamental in nature and scope...that, for those of us from this place, will always be marked by the cataclysmic eruptions of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980." --Ruby McConnell In this collection of 17 essays, geologist Ruby McConnell opens her part natural history, part memoir-in-essays about the Pacific Northwest with the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. St. Helens in May of 1980. She was two years old. "Everything that I have stood direct witness to since, everything I know about this place, happe