Minnesota's Geologist

Minnesota's Geologist
Author: Sue Leaf
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452963002

Winner of the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota’s geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state At twenty, Newton Horace Winchell declared, “I know nothing about rocks.” At twenty-five, he decided to make them his life’s work. As a young geologist tasked with heading the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey, Winchell (1839–1914) charted the prehistory of the region, its era of inland seas, its volcanic activity, and its several ice ages—laying the foundation for the monumental five-volume Geology of Minnesota. Tracing Winchell’s remarkable path from impoverished fifteen-year-old schoolteacher to a leading light of an emerging scientific field, Minnesota’s Geologist also recreates the heady early days of scientific inquiry in Minnesota, a time when one man’s determination and passion for learning could unlock the secrets of the state’s distant past and present landscape. Traveling by horse and cart, by sailboat and birchbark canoe, Winchell and his group surveyed rock outcrops, river valleys, basalt formations on Lake Superior, and the vast Red River Valley. He studied petrology at the Sorbonne in Paris, bringing cutting-edge knowledge to bear on the volcanic rocks of the Arrowhead region. As a founder of the American Geological Society and founding editor of American Geologist, the first journal for professional geologists, Winchell was the driving force behind scientific endeavor in early state history, serving as mentor to many young scientists and presiding over a household—the Winchell House, located on the University of Minnesota’s present-day mall—that was a nexus of intellectual ferment. His life story, told here for the first time, draws an intimate picture of this influential scientist, set against a backdrop of Minnesota’s geological complexity and splendor.

Minnesota's Geology

Minnesota's Geology
Author: Richard W. Ojakangas
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1982
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780816609536

Have you ever wondered how the Mississippi River was formed? Or why shark teeth have been found in the Iron Range of the Upper Midwest? Towering mountain ranges, explosive volcanoes, expansive glaciers, and long-extinct forms of both land and sea life were an important part of Minnesota's ancient history. Today the evidence of this remarkable heritage is revealed in the state's rocky outcroppings, stony soils, and thousands of lakes.

Minnesota's Geology

Minnesota's Geology
Author: Richard W. Ojakangas
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 1982
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1452902038

Have you ever wondered how the Mississippi River was formed? Or why shark teeth have been found in the Iron Range of the Upper Midwest? Towering mountain ranges, explosive volcanoes, expansive glaciers, and long-extinct forms of both land and sea life were an important part of Minnesota's ancient history. Today the evidence of this remarkable heritage is revealed in the state's rocky outcroppings, stony soils, and thousands of lakes.

A Billion Black Anthropocenes Or None

A Billion Black Anthropocenes Or None
Author: Kathryn Yusoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-11-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781517907532

No geology is neutral. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, this book examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. The author initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.

Subterranean Twin Cities

Subterranean Twin Cities
Author: Greg A. Brick
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 247
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 145291432X

In Subterranean Twin Cities, geologist, historian, and urban speleologist Greg Brick takes us on an adventurous, educational, and-thankfully-sanitary journey beneath the streets and into the myriad tunnels, caves, and industrial spaces that make up the Twin Cities' fascinating and surprisingly vast underground landscape. In this groundbreaking tour, the first of its kind of the Twin Cities, Brick mines the stories that lie below the city surface.

Geology of Minnesota

Geology of Minnesota
Author: Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota
Publisher:
Total Pages: 816
Release: 1884
Genre: Geology
ISBN:

Roadside Geology of Minnesota

Roadside Geology of Minnesota
Author: Richard W. Ojakangas
Publisher: Roadside Geology
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780878425624

Minnesota's lakes may be its most famous features, but the glaciated countryside disguises a much longer history of volcanoes and plate collisions--not surprising when you learn that Minnesota was at the active edge of the fledgling North American continent for several billion years.

Talking Rocks

Talking Rocks
Author: Ronald Lee Morton
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9781452907086