...This chapter offers interconnected facts and ideas from geology, architecture, civil engineering, and history in an accessible manner. Emphasizing personal observations and experiences, the chapter humanizes complex subjects to engage with immense geologic time scales. It also honors the tradition...

...The precontact geology, surface hydrology, and forests of the Northwest Bronx are placed in the context of landuse by Lenni-Lenape Indians. In the colonial era the expansion of a nascent New York City reached the study area, with extensive forest loss during the Revolution. In the 1800s came...

..., Iceland. Hekla, like many Icelandic volcanoes, was active and unpredictable, and it has become a metaphor for both Jack's passing as well as for the author's own roiling emotions. Interspersed between these recollections and local histories, however, are the author's own reminiscences as a geology student...

...This chapter provides an overview of the correlation between science and art. It considers the two generations of Chicagoans' architecture geology. Chicago buildings tend to collect monikers over the years, so the most commonly used terminologies or alternatives in architectural literature...

...This chapter focuses on the geology of building materials. It acknowledges how human beings have relied upon a host of different materials taken from their local environments to provide themselves with a shelter over the centuries. The broad-ranging realm of geological inquiry has many...

...This chapter expands upon the potential of rocks and geology in measuring time in prehistory. In particular, the relative age of stratified sedimentary rocks could be determined from the order of their superposition. In an undisturbed rock sequence, the older rocks would lie below the younger...

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... life could thrive on. The main focus here, however, is the “rocky” aspect of the planet Earth, hence the chapter's primary aim here is to provide an overview of the Earth's geology, remarking on the ways it is able to sustain life, and compares and contrasts the Earth's physical makeup with the other...

...This chapter delves into the extensive and interconnected field of geology, a fundamental branch of natural history that has evolved over three centuries. The chapter emphasizes historical geology, which integrates findings from paleontology, stratigraphy, petrology, and geochronology to chronicle...

...This book offers a wide-ranging look at the fascinating geology found in the building materials of Milwaukee County's architectural landmarks, and it reveals the intriguing and often surprising links between science, art, and engineering. Laid out in two main sections, the book first introduces...

...This chapter explores the geologic setting and history of Chicago. It elaborates on geology as an intensely historical science, referencing the formation of the region's bedrock during the Paleozoic era, Silurian period, Pennsylvanian subperiod, and Quaternary period. When geologists cite...