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A guidebook to exploring America's newest national monument in a unique part of Utah. The author discusses the Canyons of the Escalante, Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Grand Staircase in terms of weather conditions, locations and resources available in surrounding towns, Native America history, geologic structure, and its history of European exploration and settlement. Contains maps and many b&w photographs.
Es la victoria del visitante. Tras años de lucha de autoaprendizaje, de adaptación a las nuevas tecnologías y de convivir en dos entornos paralelos de forma simultánea, el físico y el digital, el turista ha logrado obtener su mejor premio. Ha dejado de ser un visitante más para convertirse en uno con nombres y apellidos. La explosión digital ha derivado hacia la democratización del conocimiento. La mayor de sus consecuencias es que ahora ya no basta con facilitar información. Los turistas de hoy están socialmente hiperconectados. Ya no solo consumen sino que participan en la creación de su propia experiencia. Al compartir sus vivencias en las comunidades virtuales están mejor inf...
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This lab guide helps readers learn to make wise choices for sustainability in a finite, changing, and geologically active world. Eighteen exercises cover many current issues in environmental geology and are introduced in four sections. Earth's Materials, Geologic Time, and Geologic Processes; Maps, Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images; Measurements, Basic Calculations and Conversions, and Graphs; Volcanoes, Volcanic Products, and Volcanic Hazards; Hazards of Mount St. Helens; Earthquake Epicenters, Intensities, Risks, Faults, Nonstructural Hazards and Preparation; The Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989, and Forecasting Earthquakes in the Bay Region; Landslides and Avalanches; Subsidence; River Floods; Coastal Hazards; Groundwater Hydrology; Water Quality Data and Pollution Sources; Lake and River Contamination from Industrial Waste; Groundwater and Surface Water Contamination from Resource Extraction; Groundwater Overdraft and Saltwater Intrusion; Geology and Regional Planning; Global Change and Sustainability. A hands-on reference for anyone who wants to make more informed choices, and review information critically, about the environment.
Originally presented as part of the author's thesis--Ecole pratique des hautes etudes (IVe section), 1999.