At the glacier's edge : a natural history of Long Island from the Narrows to Montauk Point /
Vast salt marshes, ancient grasslands, lush forests, pristine beaches and dunes, and copious inland waters, all surrounded by a teeming sea. These are probably not the first things you imagine when you think of Long Island, but just beyond its highways and housing developments lies a stunning landsc...
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2024]
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530940 |
תוכן הענינים:
- Walking the Glacier's Edge: Where the Past Is Prologue
- Shifting Sands and Walking Dunes: Our Living Shores
- The Blue Surround: From the Shallows to the Deeps
- Seas of Grass: Our Glorious Salt Marshes
- Copious Waters and Multitudes of Fish
- Grasslands at the Glacier's Edge: Moors, Downs, and a Lost Prairie
- Falling Trees: Our Diminishing Forests.