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Rough-Hewn Land : a Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains.
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.