Ancient Landscapes Of The Colorado Plateau

Author : Ronald C. Blakey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau written by Ronald C. Blakey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world's foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney's fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features: More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region

Author : Ronald C. Blakey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319866680
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of Western North America written by Ronald C. Blakey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allow 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 Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas’ shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before.

Author : Donald L. Baars
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traveler's Guide to the Geology of the Colorado Plateau written by Donald L. Baars and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serves as an enrichment to all road trips through the varied landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, explaining the geological forces that have shaped the stunning natural features of the area.

Author : Wayne Ranney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carving Grand Canyon written by Wayne Ranney and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carving Grand Canyon provides a synopsis of the intriguing ideas and innovative theories that geologists have developed over time. This story of a fascinating landscape is told in an engaging style that nonscientists will find inviting. The story's end, however, remains a mystery yet to be solved.

Author : Robert Fillmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607810049
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geological Evolution of the Colorado Plateau of Eastern Utah and Western Colorado written by Robert Fillmore and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-read geology tutorial of the of the eastern Colorado Plateau, this book will answer all of your questions about how this stunning region was formed. Includes detailed road logs.

Author : Ronald C. Blakey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319596365
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of Western North America written by Ronald C. Blakey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allow 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 Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas’ shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before. Winner of the 2021 John D. Haun Landmark Publication Award, AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803229909
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Rain Children Sleep written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the tradition of Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams, this collection of essays inspired by a year spent hiking 120 desert canyons explores the "sacred geography" of the West, discussing a wide range of issues, from bears to spatial intelligence.

Author : Christa Sadler
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ISBN 13 : 9780938216810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in Stone written by Christa Sadler and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the Colorado Plateau's fossil remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago, featuring numerous illustrations and photographs.

Author : Wayne Ranney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sedona Through Time written by Wayne Ranney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher : Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878426966
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roadside Geology of Montana written by Donald W. Hyndman and published by Mountain Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.