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Inner-City Glaciers
- Chris Neal MilNeil (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 79–82)
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| Title | Inner-City Glaciers |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Chris Neal MilNeil (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.12 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | MilNeil, Chris Neal |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2012-12-04 |
| Long abstract | There is a sediment that hangs in a haze above city streets: a low-dose toxic dust of lead and chromates from tire wear, clouds of carbon soot mixed with hydrocarbon gases and fine particles of nitrates, sulfates, and other metals from exhaust pipes. At every stoplight, worn brake linings leave behind microscopic flakes of copper, zinc, and lead.These automotive disjecta membra are rarely visible; you might find them as a dirty streak on a handkerchief after wiping your brow on a humid day, or in the accumulated dust of an a/c unit’s intake. In most situations, these particles either disperse in the winds, or wash away into storm drains during rain showers. But for a few months each year in cities of the upper latitudes, when precipitation falls as snow and remains above-ground in snowbanks for weeks at a time, these sediments have a chance to accumulate in impressive and highly-visible roadside deposits. Many of these cities collect and stockpile their snow in massive municipal “snow dumps” in order to keep city streets and sidewalks clear, thus consolidating the roadside’s silt even further |
| Page range | pp. 79–82 |
| Print length | 4 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |