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050 00 $aGB1798.V53$bG74 1995
082 00 $a551.48/2/09989$220
100 1 $aGreen, Bill,$d1942-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94101298
245 10 $aWater, ice, & stone :$bscience and memory on the Antarctic lakes /$cBill Green.
246 30 $aWater, ice and stone
246 30 $aScience and memory on the Antarctic lakes
260 $aNew York :$bHarmony Books,$c1995.
263 $a9505
300 $axvi, 283 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"You could die looking into such blueness," a scientist once said of Antarctica's Dry Valley lakes. Water, Ice and Stone is Bill Green's remarkable account of the time he spent probing the blueness of these lakes, expertly analyzing their chemistry and humbly listening to their stories of nature's unity.
520 8 $aPermanently covered by as much as twelve feet of ice, these are the most isolated lakes in the world - not a single fish darts through their waters, not one tree or plant has ever taken root on their rocky shores. Yet for geologists and geochemists like Green, the lakes contain a rich historical narrative of the earth's development.
520 8 $aIn the lakes he finds answers that can be expressed in the calibrated and quantified language of research, and he finds questions that can never be answered, only pondered in the memories and musings awakened by the beauty and brutality of a lonely, dangerous land. We experience with him something of this awe and wonder - the inspiration for all scientific inquiry.
650 0 $aLakes$zAntarctica$zVictoria Land.
852 00 $boff,sci$hGB1798.V53$iG74 1995