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245 10 a| Sand :b| the never-ending story /c| Michael Welland.;

300 a| xiv, 343 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;c| 21 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index.;

505 0 a| Individuals : 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.;

520 a| 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.;

650 0 a| Sandv| Miscellanea.=| ^A20544;

650 0 a| Sandstonev| Miscellanea.=| ^A49087;

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Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.

Author/creator	Welland, Michael, 1946-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Description	xiv, 343 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
Subjects	Sand--Miscellanea. Sandstone--Miscellanea.

Contents	Individuals : 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.
Abstract	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index.
LCCN	2008009084
ISBN	9780520254374 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0520254376 (cloth : alk. paper)

Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.

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