Stories in stone
Subtitle: travels through urban geology
By: David B. Williams.
Publisher: Walker
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780802716224
Subjects: Urban geology -- United States; Urban geology -- Italy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The most hideous stone ever quarried : New York brownstone; title: The granite city : Boston granite; title: Poetry in stone : Carmel granite; title: Deep time in Minnesota : Minnesota gneiss; title: The clam that changed the world : Florida coquina; title: America's building stone : Indiana limestone; title: Pop rocks, pilfered fossils, and Phillips petroleum : Colorado petrified wood; title: The trouble with Michelangelo's favorite stone : Carrara marble; title: Reading, writing, and roofing : East Coast slate; title: Autumn 20,000 years ago : Italian travertine.