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  • CENTRAL: Local History
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Stories in stone : travels through urban geology

Call Number

  • H 557.3 W7224 (CEN)

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Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Walker, 2009.

Physical Description

x, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • "The most hideous stone ever quarried" : New York brownstone
  • The granite city : Boston granite
  • Poetry in stone : Carmel granite
  • Deep time in Minnesota : Minnesota gneiss
  • The clam that changed the world : Florida coquina
  • America's building stone : Indiana limestone
  • Pop rocks, pilfered fossils, and Phillips petroleum : Colorado petrified wood
  • The trouble with Michelangelo's favorite stone : Carrara marble
  • Reading, writing, and roofing : East Coast slate
  • "Autumn 20,000 years ago" : Italian travertine.

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