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The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds...
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U.S. Geological Survey professional paper volume 104
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U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Pub. Date
1918.
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English
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The incredible story of the creation of a continent'our continent' from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives'and the entirety of human history'are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant...
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Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-color photographs-a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars"--
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Walter Alvarez and his team made one of the most astonishing scientific discoveries of the twentieth century--that an asteroid smashed into the earth 65 million years ago, exterminating the dinosaurs. Alvarez had the first glimmer of that amazing insight when he noticed something odd in a rock outcrop in central Italy. Alvarez now returns to that rich terrain, this time to take the reader on an excavation of the earth's distant past. We encounter...
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National Geographic Kids
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[2015]
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IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The Dirtmeister and his sidekick Digger introduce the world of geology, discussing minerals, the origins of the Earth, plate tectonics, rocks, and the dynamics of dirt.
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