Roadside Geology Of Southern California

Author : Arthur G. Sylvester
Publisher : Roadside Geology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 0878426531

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Roadside Geology of Southern California by Arthur G. Sylvester Pdf

Since Mountain Press started the Roadside Geology series forty years ago, southern Californians have been waiting for an RG of their own. During those four decades�which were punctuated by jarring earthquakes and landslides�geologists continued to unravel the complexity of the Golden State, where some of the most dramatic and diverse geology in the world erupts, crashes, and collides. With dazzling color maps, diagrams, and photographs, Roadside Geology of Southern California takes advantage of this newfound knowledge, combining the latest science with accessible stories about the rocks and landscapes visible from winding two-lane byways as well as from the region�s vast network of highways. Join Arthur Sylvester, an award-winning UC Santa Barbara geologist, and Elizabeth O�Black Gans, a geologist-illustrator, as they motor through mountains and deserts to explore the iconic features of the SoCal landscape, from boulder piles in Joshua Tree National Park and brilliant white dunes in the Channel Islands to tar seeps along the rugged coast and youthful cinder cones in the Mojave Desert. Whether you want to find precious gemstones, ponder the mysteries of the Salton Sea, or straddle the boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates, be sure to bring this book along as your tour guide.

Author : David D. Alt,Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher : Roadside Geology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 0878426701

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Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California by David D. Alt,Donald W. Hyndman Pdf

California's geology makes headlines when faults shift, volcanoes puff steam, and coastal bluffs fall into the sea. This book explores the state's recent rumblings and tremulous past with the aid of full color illustrations. Photographs showcase multihued rock, from red chert and green serpentinite to blue schist and gray granite. The geologic information, particularly for the Klamath Mountains, Modoc Plateau, and northern Sierra Nevada, has been updated to reflect new geologic understanding of these complex areas. Features detailed, easy to read color geologic road maps based on the 2010 Geologic Map of California.

Author : Robert Phillip Sharp,Allen F. Glazner
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Geology
ISBN : 0878422897

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Geology Underfoot in Southern California by Robert Phillip Sharp,Allen F. Glazner Pdf

Twenty vignettes focus on particular geologic scenes, relationships, and features of southern California's active landscape.

Author : William Henry Mathews,Bill Mathews,Jim Monger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 1926613341

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Roadside Geology of Southern British Columbia by William Henry Mathews,Bill Mathews,Jim Monger Pdf

"You are not going to want to drive anywhere in southern BCwithout it! Fabulous content-rich in roadside detail along with Jim Monger's big-picture context." —Jim Ryan, newsletter of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Association of Canada Roadside Geology of Southern British Columbia explains the province's tumultuous geologic history in simple terms. Thirty-one descriptive road guides, complete with maps, photographs and diagrams, help you locate and interpret the rocks and landforms visible from the province's highways and ferry routes. Discover a lava flow that chilled beneath ice. Learn how Ripple Rock claimed24 ships before engineers finally blew it up. Drive across a slow-moving earthflow that has played havoc with roads since the gold-rush days. This book covers the geological features in the lower third of British Columbia—from just north of 100 Mile House down to the Canada-United States border.

Author : John Albert Minch,Edwin Minch,Jason Minch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
ISBN : UCSD:31822028315182

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Roadside Geology and Biology of Baja California by John Albert Minch,Edwin Minch,Jason Minch Pdf

Author : David D. Alt,Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher : Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : California
ISBN : UCSD:31822001959469

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Roadside Geology of Northern California by David D. Alt,Donald W. Hyndman Pdf

The book begins with an introductory chapter that briefly reviews California's geology followed by a series of road guides with the local particulars. The authors tell you what the rocks re and what they mean. Useful graphics and charts supplement the t

Author : Donald W. Hyndman,Robert Curtiss Thomas
Publisher : Mountain Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Geology
ISBN : 0878426965

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Roadside Geology of Montana by Donald W. Hyndman,Robert Curtiss Thomas Pdf

Now, nearly 50 years after the first book, Mountain Press is releasing this completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories.

Author : Halka Chronic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : MINN:31951000693244A

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Roadside Geology of Colorado by Halka Chronic Pdf

The year 1997 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Roadside Geology Series. With nearly one million Roadside Geology books sold, Mountain Press strives to preserve the original intent of the series -- to provide scientific information in an engaging and accessible way for everyone interested in how the earth works.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0374706026

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Assembling California by John McPhee Pdf

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 Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.

Author : Chris Stall
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Animal tracks
ISBN : CORNELL:31924059873335

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Animal Tracks of Southern California by Chris Stall Pdf

Info on 40-50 animals common to each region.

Author : Richard L. Orndorff,Robert W. Wieder,Harry F. Filkorn
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015059233083

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Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada by Richard L. Orndorff,Robert W. Wieder,Harry F. Filkorn Pdf

Most people think of Nevada as a land of casinos and drive-in wedding chapels punctuating vast expanses of desolate desert. But at the heart of the Basin and Range province, the Silver State is also a geologist's playground, with great topographic relief

Author : Michael J. Walawender
Publisher : San Diego Geological Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 0916251195

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Roadside Geology Along Sunrise Highway, San Diego County, California by Michael J. Walawender Pdf

Roadside Geology along Sunrise Highway clearly explains the exciting geology of the most fascinating and highest mountain highway in San Diego County with abundant photos, maps, and illustrations. When you go to San Diego's beautiful back country and want a better understanding of the local geology be sure to grab this book! This self-guided tour starts just 47 miles east from downtown San Diego. The well-known author, Dr. Michael Walawender, holds the title of Emeritus Professor, San Diego State University.

Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781498707954

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California's Amazing Geology by Donald R. Prothero Pdf

California has some of the most distinctive and unique geology in the United States. It is the only state with all three types of plate boundaries, an extraordinary history of earthquakes and volcanoes, and it has many rocks and minerals found nowhere else. The Golden State includes both the highest and lowest point in the continental US and practically every conceivable geological feature known. This book discusses not only the important geologic features of each region in California, but also the complex geologic four-dimensional puzzle of how California was assembled, beginning over 2 billion years ago. The author provides up-to-date and authoritative review of the geology and geomorphology of each geologic province, as well as recent revelations of tectonic history of California’s past. There are separate chapters on some of California’s distinctive geologic resources, including gold, oil, water, coastlines, and fossils. An introductory section describes basic rock and mineral types and fundamental aspects of plate tectonics, so that students and other readers can make sense of the bizarre, wild, and crazy jigsaw puzzle that is California's geological history.

Author : Frank DeCourten,Norma Biggar
Publisher : Roadside Geology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 0878426728

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Roadside Geology of Nevada by Frank DeCourten,Norma Biggar Pdf

The Silver State has some of the most diverse geology in the United States, and much of it lies in plain sight thanks to the arid climate of the Great Basin. --Publisher.

Author : Neil Suneson
Publisher : Roadside Geology
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : 0878426973

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Roadside Geology of Oklahoma by Neil Suneson Pdf

"Dinosaur tracks preserved in sandstone, knobs of granite rising from the plains, and springs cascading down limestone cliffs are just a few of the fascinating geologic features discussed in Roadside Geology of Oklahoma, a guide to more than 35 roads that crisscross the Sooner State. Longtime Oklahoma Geological Survey geologist Neil Suneson tells you what to look for along the roads, points you in the direction of nearby parks with interesting rocks and crystals, and recounts historical gems about radium mineral baths, coal mines, fossil excavations, and the early days of petroleum extraction, not to mention the rush for nonexistent gold in the Wichita Mountains. And lest you think nothing has happened recently, geologically speaking, in this Great Plains state, you'll learn about a fault that broke the land surface a meer 1,250 years ago and is capable of generating a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Suneson also gets you up to speed on more modern considerations such as groundwater depletion, petroleum fracking, and strip mine reclamation. Take this book along for a ride as you roll across the red plains east to the Ozark Plateau, west to the Panhandle, or south to the Ouachita, Arbuckle, and Wichita Mountains"--