1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910706235203321

Autore

Chapman Robert Mills <1918->

Titolo

Geology of the Killik-Etivluk rivers region, Alaska . Part 3 Areal geology / / by Robert M. Chapman, Robert L. Detterman and Marvin D. Mangus; prepared and published at the request of and in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1964

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, maps + + 8 plates

Collana

Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 303-F

Soggetti

Geology - Alaska

Petroleum - Alaska

Colville River Watershed (Alaska)

Killik River (Alaska)

National Petroleum Reserve (Alaska)

North Slope (Alaska)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed September 26, 2014).

"Exploration of Naval Petroleum Reserve no 4 and adjacent areas, northern Alaska, 1944-53."

"This report is based on fieldwork by Robert M. Chapman, Robert L. Detterman, Marvin D. Mangus, Robert S. Bickel, G. Donald Eberlein, Charles A. Kirschner, Arthur H. Lachenbruch, Milton C. Lachenbruch, Charles D. Reynolds, Karl Stefansson, Robert F. Thurrell, Lawrence A. Wamer, and James Zumberge."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 403) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778374403321

Autore

Ricketts Edward Flanders <1897-1948.>

Titolo

Renaissance man of Cannery Row [[electronic resource] ] : the life and letters of Edward F. Ricketts / / edited and with an introduction by Katharine A. Rodger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8173-8095-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Alabama Fire Ant

Altri autori (Persone)

RodgerKatharine A <1974-> (Katharine Anne)

Disciplina

578.77/092

Soggetti

Marine biologists - West (U.S.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Editor's note -- Introduction -- Biographical essay -- 1936-1938 -- 1939-1940 -- 1941-1942 -- 1943-1945 -- 1946-1948 -- Works cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century. Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in Cannery Row, Slim in Of Mice and Men, Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath, and Lee in East of Eden. The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with