Landscapes Of Colorado

Author : Ronald C. Blakey,Wayne Ranney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133322177

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Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau by Ronald C. Blakey,Wayne Ranney Pdf

Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world's foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney's fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features: More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region

Author : Ann Scarlett Daley,Michael Paglia
Publisher : SF Design, LLC / Frescobooks
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106019120085

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Landscapes of Colorado by Ann Scarlett Daley,Michael Paglia Pdf

This overview of the rich vein of contemporary art in Colorado highlights the varied work created in response to the natural beauty of the state.

Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300071183

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Creating Colorado by William Wyckoff Pdf

Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts--these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this fascinating book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a larger America and showing that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment. Wyckoff discusses how nature, capitalism, a growing federal political presence, and national cultural influences came together to produce a new human geography in Colorado. He explains the ways in which the state's distinctive settlement geographies each took on a special character that persists to the present. He leads the reader through the transformation of the state from wilderness to a distinct region capable of accommodating the diverse needs of ranchers, miners, merchants, farmers, and city dwellers. And he describes how a state created out of cartographic necessity has been given uniqueness and meaning by the people who live there.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031538684

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The New West by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth M. Van Dyke,Carrie C. Heitman
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646421701

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The Greater Chaco Landscape by Ruth M. Van Dyke,Carrie C. Heitman Pdf

Since the mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate potential conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon⁠ and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology. Contributors analyze many different dimensions of the Chacoan landscape and present the most effective, innovative, and respectful means of studying them, focusing on the significance of thousand-year-old farming practices; connections between early great houses outside the canyon and the rise of power inside it; changes to Chaco’s roads over time as observed in aerial imagery; rock art throughout the greater Chaco area; respectful methods of examining shrines, crescents, herraduras, stone circles, cairns, and other landscape features in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues; sensory experiences of ancient Chacoans via study of the sightlines and soundscapes of several outlier communities; and current legal, technical, and administrative challenges and options concerning preservation of the landscape. An unusually innovative and timely volume that will be available both in print and online, with the online edition incorporating video chapters presented by Acoma, Diné, Zuni, and Hopi cultural experts filmed on location in Chaco Canyon, The Greater Chaco Landscape is a creative collaboration with Native voices that will be a case study for archaeologists and others working on heritage management issues across the globe. It will be of interest to archaeologists specializing in Chaco and the Southwest, interested in remote sensing and geophysical landscape-level investigations, and working on landscape preservation and phenomenological investigations such as viewscapes and soundscapes. Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky, G. B. Cornucopia, Timothy de Smet, Sean Field, Richard A. Friedman, Dennis Gilpin, Presley Haskie, Tristan Joe, Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas Lincoln, Michael P. Marshall, Terrance Outah, Georgiana Pongyesva, Curtis Quam, Paul F. Reed, Octavius Seowtewa, Anna Sofaer, Julian Thomas, William B. Tsosie Jr., Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Ernest M. Vallo Jr., Carla R. Van West, Ronald Wadsworth, Robert S. Weiner, Thomas C. Windes, Denise Yazzie, Eurick Yazzie

Author : Robert Adams,John Szarkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and Towns Colorado Pictorial Works
ISBN : LCCN:10132747

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The New West by Robert Adams,John Szarkowski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 0966678605

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Colorado by Anonim Pdf

The richness and diversity of the Colorado Landscape is beautifully captured through the eyes of nature photographer Dave Clack. His work reflects the essense of the Colorado wilderness. From pristine snowcapped mountains to the intimate relationship between trees, water and rocks, Dave's photography ignites an appreciation for nature. As you journey through the pages of this book, you will experience some of the beauty and grandeur that is Colorado.

Author : Jessica Joyce Christie,Jelena Bogdanovic,Eulogio Guzmán
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607324690

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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities by Jessica Joyce Christie,Jelena Bogdanovic,Eulogio Guzmán Pdf

Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the methodology put forth in Adam T. Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities to expose the intimate associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate the sociopolitical needs of governmental authority. Political Landscapes of Capital Cities blends the historical, political, and cultural narratives of capital cities such as Bangkok, Cusco, Rome, and Tehran with a careful visual analysis, hinging on the methodological tools of not only architectural and urban design but also cultural, historiographical, and anthropological studies. The collection provides further ways to conceive of how processes of urbanization, monumentalization, ritualization, naturalization, and unification affected capitals differently without losing grasp of local distinctive architectural and spatial features. The essays also articulate the many complex political and ideological agendas of a diverse set of sovereign entities that planned, constructed, displayed, and performed their societal ideals in the spaces of their capitals, ultimately confirming that political authority is profoundly spatial. Contributors: Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, Talinn Grigor, Eulogio Guzmán, Gregor Kalas, Stephanie Pilat, Melody Rod-ari, Anne Parmly Toxey, Alexei Vranich

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1555912532

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Xeriscape Plant Guide by Anonim Pdf

100 water-wise plants for gardens and landscapes.

Author : Laura L. Scheiber,Bonnie J. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131630167

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Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains by Laura L. Scheiber,Bonnie J. Clark Pdf

Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme - that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: o Paul Burnett o Oskar Burger o Minette C. Church o Philip Duke o Kevin Gilmore o Eileen Johnson o Mark D. Mitchell o Michael R. Peterson o Lawrence Todd

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476642239

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The Landscapes of Western Movies by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

Western films have often been tributes to place and setting, with the magnificent backdrops mirroring the wildness of the narratives. As the splendid outdoor scenery of Westerns could not be found on a studio back lot or on a Hollywood sound stage, the movies have been filmed in the wide open spaces of the American West and beyond. This book chronicles the history of filming Westerns on location, from shooting on the East Coast in the early 1900s; through the use of locations in Utah, Arizona, and California in the 1940s and 1950s; and filming Westerns in Mexico, Spain, and other parts of the world in the 1960s. Also studied is the relationship between the filming location timeline and the evolving motion picture industry of the twentieth century, and how these factors shaped audience perceptions of the "Real West."

Author : Ellen E. Wohl
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781607323686

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Transient Landscapes by Ellen E. Wohl Pdf

Landscape—the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place—is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through Earth’s natural environmental and climatological processes and that which comes from human intervention. The essays are grouped by type of environmental change: long-term, large-scale transformation driven by geologic forces such as tectonic uplift and volcanism; natural variability at shorter time scales, such as seasonal flooding; and modifications resulting from human activities, such as timber harvest, land drainage, and pollution. Each essay is set in a unique geographic location—including such diverse places as New Zealand, Northern California, Costa Rica, and the Scottish Highlands—and is largely drawn from Wohl’s personal experience researching in the field. A combination of travel writing, nature writing, and science writing, Transient Landscapes is a beautiful and thoughtful journey through the natural world.

Author : Kenneth I. Helphand,Ellen Manchester
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Pub
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 1879373068

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Colorado by Kenneth I. Helphand,Ellen Manchester Pdf

Author : George McDonald,Arthur Frommer
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0671799509

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Frommer's City Guide to Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs by George McDonald,Arthur Frommer Pdf

Frommer's city guides cover exciting destinations, from America's most vibrant urban centers to exotic and far-flung ports-of-call. This guide offers comprehensive coverage of Colorado's major cities, plus Rocky Mountain hiking and horseback riding, ghosts towns, and other remnants of the Wild West. Maps. Index.

Author : Ronald C. Blakey,Wayne D. Ranney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319596365

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Ancient Landscapes of Western North America by Ronald C. Blakey,Wayne D. Ranney Pdf

Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas’ shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before. Winner of the 2021 John D. Haun Landmark Publication Award, AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section