000			02101cam a22004094a 4500
001			006699740
003			OCoLC
005			20180722205335.0
008			080227s2009 cauab b s001 0 eng
010			_a 2008009084
020			_a0520254376 (cloth : alk. paper) : _c$24.95
020			_a9780520254374 (cloth : alk. paper) : _c$24.95
029	1		_aAU@ _b000042792537
029	1		_aNZ1 _b12777734
035			_a(OCoLC)212432554
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dBAKER _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dC#P _dBWX _dUPZ _dCDX _dJQF _dJRS _dAGL _dYKM _dVP@
049			_aNFGA _c1
092			_a553.622 _bW447
100	1		_aWelland, Michael, _d1946- _9131967
245	1	0	_aSand : _bthe never-ending story / _cMichael Welland.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc2009.
300			_axiv, 343 p. : _bill. (some col.), maps, ; _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index.
505	0		_aIndividuals: birth and character -- Tribes: the strange world of granular materials -- Sand and imagination I: very large numbers of very small things -- Societies on the move: a journey to the sea -- Moving on: waves, tides, and storms -- Blowing in the wind: desert landscapes -- Witness: testaments of sand -- Sand and imagination II: stories, medium, and muse -- Servant: sand in our lives -- Outward and onward: beyond earth, beyond the present -- Epilogue: a desert mystery.
520			_aFrom 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.
650		0	_aAggregates (Building materials) _9131968
650		0	_aBuilding materials _xPermeability. _9131969
650		0	_aGeomorphology. _934374
650		0	_aOrganosilicon compounds. _9131970
650		0	_aSand _xAnalysis. _9131971
650		0	_aSand, Glass. _9131972
650		0	_aSandstone _xAnalysis. _9131973
650		0	_aSediments (Geology) _9131974
942			_cBOOK _08
994			_aC0 _bNFG
998			_a006699740
999			_c73110 _d73110