How the Mountains Grew
A New Geological History of North America
New York : Pegasus Books, 2021, ©2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Description: xx, 444 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Geology has long been a puzzling science. The theory of plate tectonics advanced geographical study immensely but plate tectonics can't explain the Black Hills or the walls of chalk in the fertile Kansas basin. What else has been and is creating the landscape of North America?
Contents:
The relics of hell -- Bombardment and bottleneck -- The children of Ur -- Gardens of Ediacaran -- The great unconformity -- An ancient forest at Gilboa -- Fires, forests, and coal -- The great dying -- A grand staircase -- Western interior seaway -- A calamitous event -- Extinction -- How the mountains grew -- The Great Lakes of Wyoming -- A drowned river at Poughkeepsie -- A world bequeathed and the great acceleration.
Subjects:
Geology -- North America.
Mountains -- North America.
Formations (Geology) -- North America.
Geology -- North America.
Mountains -- North America.
Formations (Geology) -- North America.
ISBN:
9781643135748
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Geology Dvo | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-410) and index.