1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704238003321

Autore

Longoria Jose F.

Titolo

SIR-A imagery in geologic studies of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Northeastern Mexico / / Jose F. Longoria and Oscar H. Jimenez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Pasadena, Calif.] : , : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, , [1985]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (38 unnumbered pages) : maps

Collana

[NASA contractor report] ; ; NASA-CR-175457

Soggetti

Geological faults

Mexico

Remote sensing

Sediments

Shuttle Imaging Radar

Stratigraphy

Terrain analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 3, 2016).

"Prepared for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Regional stratigraphy : the use of Morphostratigraphic units in remote sensing mapping -- pt. 2. Tectonic transpression : an alternative model.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828001703321

Autore

Stark Mike (Journalist)

Titolo

Chasing the ghost bear : on the trail of America's lost super beast / / Mike Stark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4962-3195-3

1-4962-3194-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 pages)

Classificazione

NAT003000NAT015000

Disciplina

569

Soggetti

Mammals, Fossil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Part 1 -- 1. Into the Dark -- 2. Skull -- 3. A Family of Bears -- 4. Bone Trove -- 5. Inside -- 6. Into the Pleistocene -- 7. Bears in Proximity -- 8. Bears Are Everywhere -- Part 2 -- 9. La Brea -- 10. Hiding in the Muck -- 11. Teeth and Bones -- 12. A Surge of Discovery -- Part 3 -- 13. What Happened in Fulton County -- 14. Real Monsters -- 15. A Hoosier's Search -- 16. Dispossessed -- Part 4 -- 17. Fitful Arrivals -- 18. Imagining Arctodus -- 19. The Great and Far North -- 20. Lubbock -- 21. Ancient Hunters -- Part 5 -- 22. Endings -- 23. What Happened? -- 24. De-extinction -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About Mike Stark -- Illustrations.

Sommario/riassunto

"Chasing the Ghost Bear explores modern research into one of the legendary but overlooked extinct mammals from the Pleistocene epoch, the short-faced bear. Mammoths and sabertoothed cats receive most of the popular attention, but these wide-ranging bears may have ruled the West prior to the Ice Age extinctions that left grizzlies and bison as the largest mammals of the American West"--