Download or read book The Southern Cordillera and Beyond written by José Jorge Aranda Gómez and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year exploration throughout South America, Mexico, and Cuba. The discoveries amassed by Humboldt and Bonpland were staggering, and much of today’s knowledge of tropical zoology, botany, geography, and geology can be traced back to Humboldt’s numerous records of these expeditions. One of these accounts, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, firmly established Alexander von Humboldt as the founder of Mesoamerican studies. In Views of the Cordilleras—first published in French between 1810 and 1813—Humboldt weaves together magnificently engraved drawings and detailed texts to achieve multifaceted views of cultures and landscapes across the Americas. In doing so, he offers an alternative perspective on the New World, combating presumptions of its belatedness and inferiority by arguing that the “old” and the “new” world are of the same geological age. This critical edition of Views of the Cordilleras—the second volume in the Alexander von Humboldt in English series—contains a new, unabridged English translation of Humboldt’s French text, as well as annotations, a bibliography, and all sixty-nine plates from the original edition, many of them in color.
Download or read book Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind written by James Cowles Prichard and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind History of the Oceanic and American nations 1847 written by James Cowles Prichard and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Oceanic and American nations 1847 written by James Cowles Prichard and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind written by Prichard and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geology of Washington and Beyond written by Eric Swenson Cheney and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20 chapters of The Geology of Washington and Beyond�an outgrowth of a geologic symposium�present the substantial advances in recent research on the geologic history of Washington State. The 32 contributors used new conceptual developments such as sequence stratigraphy, identification and matching of terranes, and neotechtonics, as well as breakthroughs in technology such as lidar mapping, paleomagnetism, and new methods of radiometric dating, to examine the fascinating geology of Washington State and beyond. Also included is geologic mapping in areas previously known only by reconnaissance. This book will influence resource management decisions, as well as disaster and land-use planning in the region. The introductory chapters make the book accessible for undergraduate courses in geology and to the general public.
Download or read book Geoenvironmental Changes in the Cordillera Blanca Peru written by Vít Vilímek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Perus highest and most glacierized mountain range the Cordillera Blanca. This mountain range experienced numerous disasters in the past (e.g. lake Palcacocha outburst in 1941, earthquake-induced ice and rock avalanche from Mt. Huascarn in 1970) and attracted the attention of researchers from around the world.The 15 chapters of the book span from broadly thematic topics of geology, geomorphology, climate, hydrology and hydrogeology, lakes, glaciation, and environmental settings to more specific topics and emergent themes of relevance for the Cordillera Blanca, including studies of various types of natural hazards (landslides, GLOFs). While most of the chapters focus on biophysical processes of the natural environment, several chapters explore the complex interactions between humans and environmental factors, providing insights and perspectives from social science and the humanities. This book is unprecedently comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge about the geo-environmental changes in the Cordillera Blanca.
Download or read book Handbook of South American Archaeology written by Helaine Silverman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-06 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.
Download or read book National Parks Beyond the Nation written by Adrian Howkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,” the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience—an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks “America’s best idea.” The contributors to this volume use that exceptionalist claim as a starting point for thinking about an international history of national parks. They explore the historical interactions and influences—intellectual, political, and material—within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries. What is the role of science in the history of these preserves? Of politics? What purposes do they serve: Conservation? Education? Reverence toward nature? Tourist pleasure? People have thought differently about national parks at different times and in different places; and neat physical boundaries have been disrupted by wandering animals, human movements, the spread of disease, and climate change. Viewing parks around the world, at various scales and across national frontiers, these essays offer a panoptic view of the common and contrasting cultural and environmental features of national parks worldwide. If national parks are, as Stegner said, “absolutely American,” they are no less part of the world at large. National Parks beyond the Nation tells us as much about the multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture as about the framing of those ideas in geographic, temporal, and national terms.
Download or read book Atlas of South America written by Moshe Brawer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-02-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Amazon Basin to the terraces of Macchu Picchu, here is a complete visual introduction to South America. More than 100 two-colour illustrations, tables and charts are accompanied by a clearly written text that provides an overview of the climate, geography, economy, people, history, and resources of the South American nations and their territories. Part 1 gives an overview of the region; Part 2 covers each country separately. Chapters on the individual countries include the following sections: physical environments and natural regions; climate, economy, agriculture, industry and minerals, history, government and politics, and the nation's capital. The Atlas of South America includes an annotated bibliography, prepared by Linda Vertrees, Chicago Public Library, plus a complete index.
Download or read book Trees in Patagonia written by Bernardo Gut and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to the native trees and approximately 95% of the introduced arboreal species of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia. Keys based on vegetative characters and richly illustrated descriptions of more than 170 species form the core of the manual.
Download or read book The Physical Geography of South America written by Thomas T. Veblen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.
Download or read book Lithoprobe written by Southern cordillera transect workshop and cordilleran tectonics workshop$ (1992 : University of Alberta) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Andes and the Amazon Or Across the Continent of South America written by James Orton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America' by James Orton, readers are taken on an adventurous journey through the diverse landscapes of South America. Orton's descriptive writing style immerses the reader in the beauty and grandeur of the Andes mountains and the lushness of the Amazon rainforest. Written in the mid-19th century, the book is a valuable account of the region's natural history, indigenous peoples, and Orton's own experiences as a naturalist exploring unfamiliar territories. James Orton, a prominent American naturalist and geologist, was driven by a passion for exploring and studying the natural world. His expertise and dedication to scientific inquiry are evident in the meticulous details and observations found within the pages of 'The Andes and the Amazon.' Orton's firsthand encounters with local flora and fauna provide readers with a rich understanding of the region's biodiversity and environmental significance. For readers interested in natural history, exploration, and adventure, 'The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America' is a must-read. Orton's vivid portrayal of South America's landscapes and his scientific insights make this book a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the beauty and complexity of the continent.
