Sand
Subtitle: the never-ending story
By: Michael Welland.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780520254374
Subjects: Sand -- Miscellanea; Sandstone -- Miscellanea
Genres: Miscellanea.
Description: "From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Individuals; title: Tribes; title: Sand and imagination; title: Societies on the move; title: Moving on; title: Blowing in the wind; title: Witness; title: Sand and imagination; title: Servant; title: Outward and onward.