Downcanyon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Downcanyon write by Ann Zwinger. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Downcanyon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every writer comes to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with a unique point of view. Ann Zwinger's is that of a naturalist, an "observer at the river's brim." Teamed with scientists and other volunteer naturalists, Zwinger was part of an ongoing study of change along the Colorado. In all seasons and all weathers, in almost every kind of craft that goes down the waves, she returned to the Grand Canyon again and again to explore, look, and listen. From the thrill of running the rapids to the wonder in a grain of sand, her words take the reader down 280 miles of the "ever-flowing, energetic, whooping and hollering, galloping" river. Zwinger's book begins with a bald eagle count at Nankoweap Creek in January and ends with a subzero, snowy walk out of the canyon at winter solstice. Between are the delights of spring in side canyons, the benediction of rain on a summer beach, and the chill that comes off limestone walls in November. Her eye for detail catches the enchantment of small things played against the immensity of the river: the gatling-gun love song of tree frogs; the fragile beauty of an evening primrose; ravens "always in close attendance, like lugubrious, sharp-eyed, nineteenth-century undertakers"; and a golden eagle chasing a trout "with wings akimbo like a cleaning lady after a cockroach." As she travels downstream, Zwinger follows others in history who have risked—and occasionally lost—their lives on the Colorado. Hiking in narrow canyons, she finds cliff dwellings and broken pottery of prehistoric Indians. Rounding a bend or running a rapid, she remembers the triumphs and tragedies of early explorers and pioneers. She describes the changes that have come with putting a big dam on a big river and how the dam has affected the riverine flora and fauna as well as the rapids and their future. Science in the hands of a poet, this captivating book is for armchair travelers who may never see the grandiose Colorado and for those who have run it wisely and well. Like the author, readers will find themselves bewitched by the color and flow of the river, and enticed by what's around the next bend. With her, they will find its rhythms still in the mind, long after the splash and spray and pound are gone.
Downcanyon
Downcanyon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Downcanyon write by Ann Zwinger. This book was released on 1995-07. Downcanyon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the river, including ruins, small wildlife, and the experiences of early travelers
Observations and Modeling of the Internal Tide in a Submarine Canyon
Observations and Modeling of the Internal Tide in a Submarine Canyon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Observations and Modeling of the Internal Tide in a Submarine Canyon write by Emil T. Petruncio. This book was released on 1996. Observations and Modeling of the Internal Tide in a Submarine Canyon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shipboard ADCP and CTD measurements were conducted in Monterey Submarine Canyon in April and October 1994 to determine the propagation characteristics and energy levels of the semidiurnal internal tide. The measurements reveal a bottom intensified internal tide propagating energy up canyon. The region of strongest motion is in a beam 150-200 m thick, centered approximately 150 m above the Canyon floor. Along canyon baroclinic M2 currents are typically 15-20 cm/s, an order of magnitude larger than the estimated barotropic tidal currents. In April 1994, the internal tidal beam is well described by a progressive wave, while in October 1994, the signal is standing along and perpendicular to the beam. The Princeton Ocean Model was used to study the generation and propagation of semidiurnal internal tides in submarine canyons and to investigate their sensitivity to canyon shape.
Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country
Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country write by Kathy Copeland. This book was released on 2013-03-15. Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This full-color guide covers 90 trails in southern Utah's spectacular canyon country that epitomize the "wonder of wilderness." The authors hiked more than 1600 miles through Zion, Bryce, Escalante-Grand Staircase, Glen Canyon, Grand Gulch, Cedar Mesa, Canyonlands, Moab, Arches, Capitol Reef, and the San Rafael Swell in order to compile their list of 90 WOW hikes. Coverage ranges from short dayhikes to multi-day backpacking adventures. The book describes precisely where to find the redrock cliffs, slick-rock domes, soaring arches, and ancient ruins that make southern Utah unique. And it does so in a refreshing style--honest, literate, entertaining, and inspiring.
Colorado's Canyon Country
Colorado's Canyon Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colorado's Canyon Country write by Mark Pearson. This book was released on 2001. Colorado's Canyon Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
