Earth Sciences - Geology
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Roadside Geology of Montana
$30.00 Add to cartThe Roadside Geology series originated in 1972 with Roadside Geology of the Northern Rockies. Fourteen years later, the Big Sky portion of that book was updated to become Roadside Geology of Montana, … [more below]
- Author: Hyndman, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0878426965
- Language: English
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Geology Underfoot on Colorado’s Western Slope
$26.00 Add to cartThis tenth book in the Geology Underfoot Series offers an inside view of the uniquely enigmatic landscape west of the Continental Divide in Colorado. In this arid region where mountain snowmelt drains… [more below]
- Author: Shroder, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0878427082
- Language: English
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Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock, and Wind at the Polar Extreme
$28.00 Add to cartWith stunning original photographs, an Antarctic scientist and explorer takes us to one of the most sublime, remote, and pristine regions on the planet.
The interior of Antarctica is an utterly prist- Author: Stump, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226829901
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Ohio
$24.00 Add to cartOhio�s bedrock reveals a rich story of the ancient landscapes and animals�massive meat-eating reptiles, foot�long clams, lumbering mammoths�that existed thousands to hundre… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Camp, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0878425241
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Mississippi
$24.00 Read moreIt�s a little-known fact, but Mississippi has a volcano. True, it�s buried under 2,600 feet of sediment, but it was red hot and active roughly 79 to 69 million years ago, and evidence of… [more below]
- Author: Galicki, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 087842671X
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of West Virginia
$26.00 Add to cartWithin West Virginia’s irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sedimentary record of the entire Paleozoic Era. Continents collidin… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Lebold, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0878426833
- Language: English
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Colorado Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Centennial State
$22.00 Add to cartThese 50 well-chosen sites–many on every geologist’s bucket list–span Colorado’s geologic history from 1.7-billion-year-old rocks of the Black Canyon to the constantly shifting landscape of the Grea… [more below]
- Author: Donahue, Magdalena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0878427058
- Language: English
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Geology Underfoot in Southern Idaho
$26.00 Add to cartSouthern Idaho is a geologic jackpot. Etched in its rugged mountains, incredibly young lava fields, and steep-walled canyons lie compelling evidence of amazing geologic events, including breccia from … [more below]
- Series: Geology Underfoot
- Author: Willsey, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0878426787
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Read moreRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland
$25.00 Add to cartTo know a place deeply means to understand it on several levels, layered almost as if from bedrock to topsoil. Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland takes readers on a j
- Series: Heartland History
- Author: Koch, Kevin J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0253068843
- Language: English
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Cataclysm!: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.
$27.99 Read moreFollow this multi-disciplinary, scientific study as it examines the evidence of a great global catastrophe that occurred only 11,500 years ago. Crustal shifting, the tilting of Earth’s axis, mass exti… [more below]
- Author: Allan, D. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1879181428
- Language: English
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Geology of Southeast Alaska: Rock and Ice in Motion
$23.95 Read moreThe most powerful forces on earth have shaped the landscape of Southeast Alaska. Scientists and visitors from around the world trek north to experience wild rivers, powerful glaciers, and breathtaking… [more below]
- Author: Stowell, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 188996381X
- Language: English
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Born of Ice and Fire: How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
$28.00 Read moreAn exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today’s remarkable biodiversity
More than half a billion years ago, our world was comple- Author: Shields, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 030024259X
- Language: English
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Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock, and Wind at the Polar Extreme
$28.00 Read moreWith stunning original photographs, an Antarctic scientist and explorer takes us to one of the most sublime, remote, and pristine regions on the planet.
The interior of Antarctica is an utterly prist- Author: Stump, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226829901
- Language: English
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Extinctions: From Dinosaurs to You
$26.00 Add to cartA compelling answer to an important question: Can past mass extinctions teach us how to avoid future planetary disaster?
On its face, the story of mass extinction on Earth is one of unavoidable disas- Author: Frankel, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 2024
- ISBN10: 022674101X
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of South Dakota
$20.00 Read moreSouth Dakota fills the landscape with geologic diversity, from the glaciated rolling prairies in the east, across the Missouri River, and west to the rugged Badlands Wall and granitic domes of the Bla… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Gries, John Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 357
- Publish Date: June 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0878423389
- Language: English
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Ancient Landscapes of Western North America: A Geologic History with Paleogeographic Maps
$37.99 Add to cartAllow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from… [more below]
- Author: Blakey, Ronald C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 18 2017
- ISBN10: 3319596349
- Language: English
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Glacial Lake Missoula: And Its Humongous Flood
$15.00 Add to cartAs geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, it dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastro… [more below]
- Author: Alt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 199
- Publish Date: June 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0878424156
- Language: English
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California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State
$26.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive account of California’s numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californians throughout the state’s history and carries a so… [more below]
- Author: Griggs, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402103
- Language: English
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The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes
$19.95 Add to cartThis classic work was used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students. The first book to deal exclusively with the behavior of blown sand and rel… [more below]
- Series: Dover Earth Science
- Author: Bagnold, Ralph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: January 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0486439313
- Language: English
