Rough-Hewn Land : a Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
Geology West (U.S.) SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General History sähkökirjat
University of California Press
2011
EISBN 9780520949942
COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART I: CALIFORNIA; 1. Golden Gate; 2. Mother Lode; 3. Rivers of Gold; 4. A Traverse across the Range of Light; 5. Where Is the Edge of the North American Plate?; PART II: THE BASIN AND RANGE AND THE GREAT BASIN; 6. Where Rivers Die; 7. The Growing Pains of Mountains; 8. Wealth and Magma; 9. Water and Salt; 10. Evolution's Big Bang; PART III: THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS; 11. Range-Roving Rivers; 12. Up from the Basement; 13. At the Frontier; APPENDIX I: DEEP TIME: FATHOMING THE ROCK RECORD; APPENDIX II: SEEING FOR YOURSELF; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; GLOSSARY.
"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains." In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million years of deep time to explore America's most spectacular and scientifically intriguing landscapes. He places us on the outcrops, rock hammer in hand, to examine the evidence for how these rough-hewn lands came to be. We see California and its gold assembled from pieces of old ocean floor and the relentless movements of.
"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains." In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million years of deep time to explore America's most spectacular and scientifically intriguing landscapes. He places us on the outcrops, rock hammer in hand, to examine the evidence for how these rough-hewn lands came to be. We see California and its gold assembled from pieces of old ocean floor and the relentless movements of.
