How the mountains grew : a new geological history of North America / John Dvorak.
Título:
How the mountains grew : a new geological history of North America / John Dvorak.
ISBN:
9781643135748
Autor personal:
Edición:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Información de publicación:
New York, NY : Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2021.
©2021
Descripción física:
xx, 444 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Contenido:
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.
Síntesis:
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?
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