Download or read book Antero Aquamarines written by Mark I. Jacobson and published by L R Ream Pub. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to collecting gemstone aquamarine, phenakite and betrandite from the Mount Antero-White Mountain region of Colorado.
Download or read book Halfway to Heaven written by Mark Obmascik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After their first joint climb, addled by the thin air, Obmascik decides to keep his head in the clouds and try scaling all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains, known as the Fourteeners -- and to do them in less than one year. The result is Halfway to Heaven, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Obmascik's rollicking, witty, sometimes harrowing, often poignant chronicle of an outrageous midlife adventure that is no walk in the park, although sometimes it's A Walk in the Woods -- but with more sweat and less oxygen. Half a million people try climbing a Colorado Fourteener every year, but only twelve hundred have reported summiting them all. Can an overweight, stay-at-home dad become No. 1,201? With his ebullient personality and sparkling prose, Obmascik brings us inside the quirky, colorful subculture of mountaineering obsessives who summit these mountains year after year. Honoring his concerned wife's orders not to climb alone, Obmascik drags old friends up the slopes, some of them lifelong flatlanders tasting thin air for the first time, and lures seasoned Rockies junkies into taking on a huffing, puffing newbie by bribing them with free beer, lunches, and car washes. Among the new friends he makes are an ex-drag racer trying to perform a headstand on every summit, the lead oboe player in a Hebrew salsa band, and a climber with the counterproductive pre-climb ritual of gulping down four beers and a burrito. Along the way, Obmascik experiences the raw, rowdy, and rarely seen intimacy of male friendship, braced by the double intoxicants of adrenaline and altitude. Though danger is always present -- the Colorado Fourteeners have killed more climbers than Mount Everest -- Mark knows his aging scalp can't afford the hair-raising adventures of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, and his quest becomes a story of family, friendship, and fraternity. In Obmascik's summer of climbing, he loses fifteen pounds, finds a few dozen man-dates, and gains respect for the history of these storied mountains (home to cannibalism, gold rushes, shoot-outs, and one of the nation's most famed religious shrines). As much about midlife and male bonding as it is about mountains, Halfway to Heaven tells how weekend warriors can survive them all as they reach for those most distant things -- the summits of mountains and a teenage son. And as one man exceeds the physical achievements of his youth, he discovers that age -- like summit height -- is just a number.
Download or read book Rocks and Minerals written by Peter Zodac and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Opal bibliography, by G. Frederick Shepherd.": v. 8, p. 51-60.
Download or read book Mines and Quarries 1902 written by United States. Census Office. 12th census, 1900 and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 4WD Trails written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4WD Trails books are a series of inexpensive 4WD travel guides that include the trail information for selected regions included in the comprehensive 4WD Adventures series. All three titles provide all the information needed for anyone with a sport utility vehicle to explore about 30 backcountry trails within a selected region of Colorado, from easy to challenging. They feature approximately 50 photographs and step-by-step directions for each trail. Every trail includes a two-color map, ratings for degree-of-difficulty and scenic beauty, driving time, overall and point-to-point distances, and GPS coordinates. Write-ups include brief histories of the trails, the ghost towns, and mining operations in the area.
Download or read book Colorado Trails South Central Region written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beryllium written by Edward S. Grew and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 50 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry treats Beryllium and its cosmogenic isotopes. This volume includes an overview of Be studies in the earth sciences and a systematic classification of Be minerals based on their crystal structure. It treats the analysis of these minerals by the secondary ion mass spectroscopy as well as experimental studies of systems involving Be. Moreover, this volume reviews the behavior of Be in the Solar System, with an emphasis on meteorites, the Moon and Mars, and the implications of this behavior for the evolution of the solar system. It gives an overview of the terrestrial geochemistry of Be and discusses the contamination of the environment by this anthropogenic toxin. It reports use of the longer lived Be-10 to assess erosion rates and other surficial processes and how this isotope can yield independent temporal records of geomagnetic field variations for comparison with records obtained by measuring natural remnant magnetization, be a chemical tracer for processes in convergent margins, and can date events in Cenozoic tectonics. It reviews applications of the shorter lived isotope Be-7 in environmental studies as well. Residual phases include acidic plutonic and volcanic rocks, whose geochemistry and evolution are covered, while granitic pegmatites, which are well-known for their remarkable, if localized, Be enrichments and a wide variety of Be mineral assemblages, are reviewed. Not all Be concentrations have obvious magmatic affinities; for example, one class of emerald deposits results from Be being introduced by heated brines. Pelitic rocks are an important reservoir of Be in the Earth's crust and their metamorphism plays a critical role in recycling of Be in subduction zones, eventually, anatectic processes complete the cycle, providing a source of Be for granitic rocks.
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Download or read book Gemstones of North America written by John Sinkankas and published by Geoscience Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final volume of Sinkankas's continuing research which updates the development of the older, well-established gem deposits. Includes maps of localities and full-color photos.
Download or read book Precious Stones written by Wilbert Goodchild and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rockhounding for Beginners written by Suleyman Cesur and published by Suleyman Cesur. This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic principles of rockhounding and sample pictures with the properties of all gemstones.This book is for beginners.
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