Stories in stone
Subtitle: travels through urban geology
By: David B. Williams.
Publisher: Walker & Co.; Walker
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780802716224
Subjects: Urban geology; Rocks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The most hideous stone ever quarried; title: The granite city; title: Poetry in stone; title: Deep time in Minnesota; title: The clam that changed the world; title: America's building stone; title: Pop rocks, Phillips petroleum, and petrified wood; title: The trouble with Michelangelo's marble; title: Reading, writing, and roofing; title: Autumn 20,000 years ago.