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Rural America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Rural America

Thomas Jefferson once envisioned the United States as a 'nation of yeomen farmers'. Looking around today, however, illustrates that nothing could be further from the truth. In a globalised world and techno-centred society, urban sprawl is overtaking rural America. For over a century, farming was the backbone of the American economy, and though it is still critical to American productivity, many rural areas are plagued by poverty and job reduction. Agricultural issues have a hold over national politics (as in the debates over farm subsidies), but they cannot change several significant trends in America today: the movement toward fewer and larger farms, environmental pressures from urban and s...

Caribbean Basins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 713

Caribbean Basins

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-12-15
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

This 21-chapter volume provides a regionally-comprehensive collection of original studies of Caribbean basins conducted by academic and petroleum geologists and geophysicists in the early and mid-1990s. The common tectonic events discussed in the volume including the rifting and passive margin history of North and South America that led to the formation of the Caribbean region; the entry of an exotic, Pacific-derived Great Arc of the Caribbean at the leading edge of the Caribbean oceanic plateau; the terminal collision of the arc and plateau with the passive margins fringing North and South America; and subsequent strike-slip and accretionary tectonics that affected the arc-continent collisi...

Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 556

Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust

The proceedings from the September 1998 conference in Marshall, California contain 39 papers on the following topics: ophiolites, ocean crust, and global tectonics; oceanic lower crust and upper mantle; structure and physical properties of upper oceanic crust; hydrothermal processes; Pacific Rim ophiolites; and, Ophiolites from Iapetus, Rheic-Pleionic, Neotethyan, and Indian Oceans. Contributors include scientists with backgrounds in structural geology, tectonics, geophysics, petrology, and geochemistry. Numerous black and white illustrations (and one in color) are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1482
California Feuds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

California Feuds

Chronicling the ignominious yet fascinating side of this state, this account shares tales of personal vendettas in a time when men made their own laws and left women to pick up the pieces.

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1480
Subject Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1016

Subject Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Secretary of the Senate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1224

Report of the Secretary of the Senate

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1030

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.