Glamour and Geology
Author | : E. Allen Driggers |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031645251 |
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Author | : E. Allen Driggers |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031645251 |
Author | : E. Allen Driggers |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-12-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783031645242 |
During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job. Newspapers, the oil industry, and other publications published stories about the glamorous working geologist, comparing them to movie stars and scientists working on the important production of oil. This book explores the image of the female geologist as it changed from the “accomplished” woman of the Victorian era to the professional, and glamourous geologists of World War II and beyond. Women working in geology, especially petroleum geology, embraced the image and some participated in its promotion. In those same newspaper articles, some geologists began to speak out and ultimately discuss some of the problems they experienced while working in the field and in industry. This book discusses the role of working women geologists not only in the profession, but as a part of popular culture in the twentieth century.
Author | : Noah Heringman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801457513 |
Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor "improvement"—provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages.Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of rocks and landforms. Equally interested in the initial surge of curiosity about the earth and the ensuing process of specialization, Heringman contributes to a new understanding of literature as a key forum for the modern reorganization of knowledge.
Author | : Alex Maltman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0190863293 |
Jurassic, basalt, moraine, flint, alluvial, magma: what are these words and what do they have to do with wine? The answers are here in this book. They are geological terms that reflect a bond between wine and the land. Understanding geology, however, is tricky. Geological concepts are obscure; processes can be imperceptibly slow, invisible, and unimaginably ancient. The terminology is formidable, such that even the names of common rocks carry an air of mystery. Geology is introduced plainly, starting with basic principles, all in the context of wine. The emphasis is on the kinds of processes that shape vineyards, and on the minerals, rocks and soils that host the vines. Geological words now commonly seen in wine writings are systematically explained. You will learn the stories behind some of the names, the human face of geology. The book also explores how the geology-wine connection manifests in the finished product and evaluates its importance, particularly in the contexts of minerality, terroir, and wine taste. The fact is that geology is increasingly being promoted in the world of wine; the aim here is to help it be properly understood.
Author | : Geological Survey of Great Britain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
A new series, embracing annual "scientific results" and certain administrative statistics.
Author | : M.D. Picard |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1468464442 |
In this collection of essays, M. Dane (`Duke') Picard takes the reader on journeys across deserts, mountains, canyons, and rivers from the American Southwest to Italy and France. His blend of vivid description and humor evokes the rugged days of field petroleum geology in the Great Plains and pastel Badlands of Utah and Wyoming in the 1950s and later days unlocking the geological secrets of sandstone in the Rockies. Along the way, he pokes gentle fun at the academic life in stories that will make anyone smile who's ever sat on a faculty committee or chaired a professional meeting. The final essays on his travels through Provence and Italy are rich with details of the beauty and the history - both human and geological - of the regions. M.D. Picard is the author of numerous professional articles and books, and has served as president of the National Association of Geology Teachers, the Society of Sedimentary Geology, and the Rocky Mountain section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is well known to the geological community for the essays and book reviews he has published over the last ten years in geoscience journals and magazines.
Author | : Joel Dorman Steele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maria Hack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Earth (Planet) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Arthur Underhill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joel Dorman Steele |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2024-03-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385389135 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.