Sue Leaf

Minnesota's Geologist

The Life of Newton Horace Winchell

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Produktbeschreibung

"The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota's geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781517901684
• ISBN-10: 1517901685
• Artikelnr.: 58018892

Autorenporträt

Sue Leaf is author of The Bullhead Queen: A Year on Pioneer Lake; A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts; and Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life, all published by Minnesota. She also wrote Potato City: Nature, History, and Community in the Age of Sprawl. Trained as a zoologist, she writes on environmental topics and is editor of the newsletter of the Wild River Audubon Society of east-central Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Finding a Footing
2. A Solid Foundation
3. Metamorphosis
4. Working Geologist
5. Settling In
6. Fracture
7. Bedrock and Rivers
8. The Winchells Broaden their Reach
9. Rocks of Fire: The North Shore
10. Portages: The Boundary Waters and Iron Ranges
11. Back to the North Shore
12. The Boom
13. Field Work, Politics, Feminism, Romance
14. Shaping a Science
15. The American Geologist
16. Terminal Moraine
17. Americans in Paris
18. Glacial Retreat
19. The Archaeologist
20. The Antiquity of Man
Epilogue
Men of the Minnesota Geological Survey
Notes
Index