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Unearth a treasure trove of geological knowledge with this in-depth guide to over 500 rocks and minerals Learn how rocks are formed and how to recognize them by their unique qualities and colors. This is a wonderful book for beginners, students and rock collecting enthusiasts that includes the latest scientific research and specimen classification.

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San...

"This new edition of Donald L. Baars's classic The Colorado Plateau incorporates new text, maps, photographs, figures, tables and bibliography to provide the most up-to-date geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Four Corners of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Baars's geological summary of the canyonlands is detailed enough to satisfy a geologist looking for an overview of the region yet clearly enough written to appeal to anyone...

The story of a ranch in Wyoming, the geologist who grew up there, and the high-country geology of the surrounding land.

"Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross-section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with." "Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a many-layered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it, guided...

Discusses glaciers, oceans, volcanoes, rocks, minerals, earthquakes, and the history of the Earth.

Investigates the cause of the so-called Permian extinction, which wiped out 95% of all life on Earth 250 million years ago. Archaeologists, historians and geologists discuss their findings about the nature of the 3-stage process. Filmed in South Africa, Siberia, Iceland, Greenland, Antarctica and the Alps. Reconstructions of volcanic eruptions.

"In this interactive picture book, young readers push, press, and pound rocks on the page, using their imagination to explore. They learn about different types of rocks, the structure of Earth, and how we humans use rocks and minerals. Back matter includes a real-world experiment for investigating the hardness of rocks"--

"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explaiǹ"-- A river winds through the landscape, eroding the rock for millions of years, shaping a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, as much as 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as ...Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that live within its walls, Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow...

"In 1999, to find out what really lies beneath our feet, scientists from Denver's Museum of Nature and Science dug a 2,256-foot well and found a surprising array of landscapes and animal life-all in one place. In addition to what they discovered in the sediment at that site, geologists were able to look at other findings in the area to pull together an amazing assessment of the geological history of Denver's Front Range. Today, those who visit the...