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The rise of mountains and the spread of deserts has marked the geologic history of Arizona. Landscapes that we see today are here because of landscapes of the past, and because of tremendous forces deep within the earth, forces that carry continents into collisions and then drag them apart again, forces of heat and pressure and the slow churning boil of the earth's interior. Landscape features result, too, from more comprehensible, more recent forces:...
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In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surverying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany: that by following these fossils one could trace layers of rocks as they dipped, rose...
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The book is about Zion National Park's geology. It includes wonderful pictures of various features in the Park, drawings of geological features, and good, scientific prose about geology. Toward the end of the book is a geological road guide to the Park. It includes all the public access roads of the Park, including the main road up the Canyon.
18) The ice age
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Describes the earth's many ice ages, with an emphasis on the climate, people, and animals of the last great ice age.
19) Tensleep
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Em Hansen, a woman working as a mudlogger on an oil rig in Wyoming, investigates the death of a friend, the rig's geologist, while battling sexism. Plenty of oil drilling lore, the author being a geologist.
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After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
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