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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $5.55
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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: Halka Chronic
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.91
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Publication Date: 1983-04-01
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Reading Level: 322
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Description: Roadside Geology of Hawai`i details the evolution of this volcanic island chain, from the origin of a hot spot and the tumultuous creation of each island to ongoing eruptions and the gradual death and erosion of old volcanoes. Residents and tourists alike will soon become experts on lava tubes and lava flows, ancient beaches and coral reefs, ephemeral black sand beaches and the occasional tsunami. Includes a chapter each on six easily accessible and populated islands: Hawai`i , Maui, Lana`i, Moloka`i, O`ahu, and Kaua`i. Each chapter begins with a general discussion of the rocks of that island, then proceeds with a seres of road guides that provide the local details.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $9.20
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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: Darwin Spearing
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.64
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Publication Date: 1991-04-01
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Reading Level: 418
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Description: The geologic panorama of Texas is as wide as the state is big, sweeping from volcanic mesas and thrusting mountains in the west to the red canyons of the Panhandle, along tropical sand barriers of the Gulf Coast, and across central limestone plateaus to the hard granitic terrain of central Texas. Learn about the rocks as you come to them--what they are, when they formed, what they mean, and how they fit into the big picture of the geology of Texas.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.92
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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: Halka Chronic
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.88
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Publication Date: 2002-08-01
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Reading Level: 398
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Description: The rocks and landforms have not changed much since the publication of the first edition of the Roadside Geology of Colorado in 1980, but our understanding of them has. With expanded coverage, updated maps, new photographs, and the latest geologic interpretations, this nontechnical guide introduces you to the tumultuous geological history of Colorado s mountains, plateaus, and plains. The second edition includes tours of Black Canyon in Gunnison National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve, Mesa Verde National Park, and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $13.60
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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: Halka Chronic
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.92
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Publication Date: 1990-01-01
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Reading Level: 326
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Description: No one can ignore the colorful rocks of Utah: the Vermilion Cliffs of Wingate sandstone, the snow white and salmon pink bluffs of Navajo sandstone, or the yellow and pink rhyolite of Big Rock Candy Mountain. Roadside Geology of Utah is a riveting account of the forces that made the brilliant cliffs, mountains, and canyonlands we see today. The author's smooth prose brings the rocks of Utah and their long history into sharp and enjoyable focus.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $7.41
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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: Halka Chronic
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.89
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Publication Date: 1987-10-01
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Reading Level: 255
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Description: The "Land of Enchantment," New Mexico is as varied in its scenery as its nickname suggests. With desert lowlands in the south and high, hoary peaks in the north, with rugged volcanic uplands and colorful plateaus, with high plains along its eastern border, and with a great rift valley that quite literally slashes the state in two, New Mexico's landscape tells a dramatic story that spans more than one billion years.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.45
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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: 557.48
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Publication Date: 1990-01-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: From the tightly folded formations in the Appalachians across the broad reaches of horizontal sedimentary layers in the Allegheny Plateau, Pennsylvania's rocks record hundreds of millions of years of geologic history that tell an astounding storyThis book enables the reader to recognize the rocks and understand their meaning. It explains the landscapes of Pennsylvania in terms anyone can understand and enjoy.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $12.89
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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: $14.00
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Sale: $7.62
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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: Robert P. Sharp
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.949
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Publication Date: 1993-04-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Reading the rocks like pages in a book, Geology Underfoot in Southern California offers an inside view of the southland's active and sometimes enigmatic landscape. Twenty vignettes each weave a geologic story of a particular scene, relationship, or feature. Some spotlight well-known landmarks, while others describe subtle relationships among the earth's awesome forces. Together these snapshots introduce readers to southern California's rich, dynamic, and even flamboyant geology.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $4.38
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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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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.97
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Publication Date: 1984-09-01
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Reading Level: 290
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Description: The geology of Washington is a story of islands--micro-continents--coming in from the sea. Two hundred million years ago most of Washington consisted of two large islands, each one a scrap of continent, lying somewhere in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. One after the other they docked onto the North American continent, each adding its distinctive bit to the complex geologic and geographic mosaic of western North America.
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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $11.95
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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 D. Alt
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.95
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Publication Date: 1995-10-01
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Reading Level: 443
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Description: Northwest Exposures chronicles the events that shaped the region's rock and landforms through the ages. The tale of the Northwest's geology began more than two billion years ago when an ancient continent split, creating oceanfront property in what is now western Idaho. Pacific islands mashed into that coastline, making large parts of Washington and Oregon. These events were followed by monstrous volcanic eruptions, catastrophic ice age floods, and mountains rising to an accompaniment of earthquakes.
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