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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Lageson
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.87
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Publication Date: 1988-07-01
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Reading Level: 271
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Description: As John McPhee noted in In Suspect Terrain, one of the unintended consequences of large highways is how much they help geologists -- and casual travellers -- learn about geology by exposing geological strata in roadcuts. There are no better books for roadside geologizing than the Roadside Geology series. When I had a car, a copy of the appropriate title from the series was always on the dashboard, ready for consultation whenever an interesting formation or landscape appeared around the next bend. This is just one of a large series of Roadside Geology books. Take your pick(s), and learn about the Earth on your next trip! [ Alaska | Arizona | California (Northern) | California (Southern) | Colorado | Hawaii | Idaho | Louisiana | Montana | New Mexico | New York | Oregon | Pennsylvania | South Dakota | Texas | Yellowstone Country | Utah | Vermont and New Hampshire | Virginia | Washington | Wyoming ] Related Books: [ Great Smoky Mountains National Park | Roadside Kansas: A Traveler's Guide to Its Geology and Landmarks | U S Interstate 80 Between Salt Lake City and San Francisco ]
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $6.98
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bradford B. Van Diver
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.42
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Publication Date: 1987-03-01
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Reading Level: 230
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Description: This book is for everyone who ever traveled in these lovely states and wondered about the meaning of their landscapes and tortured rocks. Since it is a book for the traveler, it concentrates on what you can see from a car, yet it points out interesting places to stop and examine rocks you can get close to, touch, or even sample. It addresses the broad plate tectonic concepts of opening and closing oceans, volcanism, mountain building, and colliding continents.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $10.99
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David D. Alt
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.96
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Publication Date: 1989-08-01
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Reading Level: 393
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Description: From the ancient sedimentary formations in the north through the overthrust belt in the southeast, Idaho's rocks are as interesting as rocks come. The authors know these rocks well through their years of research in Idaho, which led to their theory explaining the flood basalts of the Columbia Plateau and the hotspot track of the Snake River Plain as the results of a giant meteorite impact that happened about 17 million years ago.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.14
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Manufacturer: Tidewater Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher P. White
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Publisher: Tidewater Publishers
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.316347
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Publication Date: 1989-10
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Reading Level: 224
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $6.78
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Keith Frye
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.55
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Publication Date: 1986-06-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The geologic features seen in Virginia are as varied as any in the country. Indeed, in 1985 the highway east of Natural Bridge was identified as the most geologically interesting 24 kilometers of roadway in the southeastern United States and one of the four most interesting in the country. In addition to Natural Bridge, you can see caverns still developing their unique architecture, geologic structures developed at the end of the Paleozoic era, fossils of Paleozoic life, preserved beaches from late Precambrian shores, and more, all in a single stretch of highway.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $4.95
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William J. Fritz
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.8752
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Publication Date: 1985-06-01
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Reading Level: 150
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Description: The geologic story of the Yellowstone Country begins with rocks 2.7 billion years old that are mashed remnants of even older rocks, and continues with processes that shape the land surface today. Striking evidence lies along the park roads and highways leading to the north, south, east, and west entrances to Yellowstone Park.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dabney W. Caldwell
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.41
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Publication Date: 1998-06-01
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Reading Level: 317
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Description: Exploring Maine just got easier. Whether you plan to view the geology from the highway, the beach, or the top of Mount Katahdin, Roadside Geology of Maine distills each scene's geologic history into easily understood stories of rocks and landscape. In this odd and spectacular north country, where even standard geology is unusual, contorted layered rock shows the strain of surviving the collision of continents. Glaciers sculpted the battered bedrock and left behind some of Maine's most useful and aggravating geologic features. Readers will learn why ice-age delta mud--highly sought after for making bricks--challenges bridge engineers, and why Maine's plowed fields seem to produce more rocks than crops.
Author D. W. Caldwell divides Maine into four geographically distinct regions: the coast, the central slate belt, the mountains, and the north, and describes the geology of each region's major roads. Detailed maps guide readers through the Maine woods, locating glacially polished pink granite quarried for national monuments, 100-mile-long eskers meandering through boggy lowlands, frozen patterned ground in the alpine highlands, and pillow basalts along the coast. Geologic roadlogs include tours of Acadia National Park and some trails in Baxter State Park.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David D. Alt
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.86
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Publication Date: 1986-10-01
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Reading Level: 427
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Description: Montana's geologic history includes a long succession of disturbances that changed the rocks, then changed many of them again. Unraveling these events reveals a geologically quiet continent that got scrambled in a long and grinding collision with the Pacific crustal plate. Through detailed geologic maps and lively text, Roadside Geology of Montana deciphers the complicated rock record and uncovers each layer of Big Sky Country.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $13.20
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John McPhee
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edition: 1st ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.3
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Publication Date: 1998-06-10
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Reading Level: 704
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Description: In 1978 New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billions of years. In 1981 he published the first of the four books that would come from his research: Basin and Range, a study of the mountainous lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. Two years later came In Suspect Terrain, a grand overview of the Appalachian mountain system. In 1986 McPhee released Rising from the Plains, a history of the Rocky Mountains set largely in Wyoming. And in 1993 came Assembling California, a survey of the area geologists find to be a laboratory of volcanic and tectonic processes, a place where geology can be watched in the making. Annals of the Former World gathers these four volumes, which McPhee always conceived of as a whole, to make that epic of the Earth's formation; to it he adds a fifth book, Crossing the Craton, which introduces the continent's ancient core, underlying what is now Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska. McPhee's great virtue as a journalist covering the sciences--and any other of the countless subjects he has taken on, for that matter--is his ability to distill and explain complex matters: here, for example, the processes of mineral deposition or of plate tectonics. He does so by allowing geologists to speak for themselves and an entertaining lot they are, those sometimes odd men and women who puzzle out the landscape for clues to its most ancient past. Annals of the Former World is a magisterial work of popular science for which geologists--and devotees of good writing--will be grateful. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: Washington State University
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hill Williams
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Publisher: Washington State University
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.95
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Publication Date: 2002-03
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: The Restless Northwest provides a brief, easy-to-follow overview of the geologic processes that shaped the Northwest. One of the attractions of the Northwest is its varied terrain, from the volcanic Cascade Range to the flood-scoured scablands of eastern Washington and the eroded peaks of the northern Rockies. These vast differences are the result of a collision of the old and the new. The western edge of Idaho was once the edge of ancient North America; as eons passed, a jumble of islands, minicontinents, and sediment piled up against the old continental edge, gradually extending it west to the present coastline. Figuring out how and when these various land forms came together to create the Northwest took much geological detective work. Unlike many geology books that focus on rocks, The Restless Northwest emphasizes the human drama of geology. The narrative is sprinkled with firsthand accounts of people involved in the exciting geological discoveries made in recent years. Hill Williams uses an informal conversational style to explain complex processes to a general readership. He enlivens the story of long-ago geologic events with fascinating asides on everything from enormous undersea tube worms to the Willamette meteorite, the largest ever found in the United States. Interested readers will discover much about Pacific Northwest geology without getting bogged down in an overabundance of details and scientific terms.
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