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Vendor: Chicago DistributionBy: Bill Fiero Since its first publication in 1986, Geology of the Great Basin has become the essential introduction to the geology of this physically complex, ever-changing region. Written in a clear, succinct style and generously illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and maps, the book...
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Vendor: Gem Guides Book CompanyBy: David Lambert and The Diagram Group The Field Guide to Geology, New Edition recounts the fascinating story of the Earth in a vivid, engaging fashion. Written by a team of eminent geologists and educators, the book is a concise, comprehensive overview of the...
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Vendor: Chicago DistributionBy: Frank L. DeCourten The Broken Land surveys the geological phenomena of the magnificent Great Basin landscape of western Utah, Nevada, eastern California, and adjacent regions. Each chapter focuses on a locality or area that provides insights into the deep history of one of...
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Vendor: Gem Guides Book CompanyBy: Robert L. Bates & Julia A. Jackson From aa to zweinkanter, this popular dictionary has now been revised and updated. This edition includes over 1,000 new terms, plus, accurate definitions, word origins, hyphenation and pronunciation guide, commonly used abbreviations, and a geologic time...
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Vendor: Grand Canyon ConservancyBy: Christa Sadler Spanning the Four Corners area of the American Southwest, the Colorado Plateau is a remarkable landscape of impressive peaks, high plateaus, and deeply carved canyons. Locked in its colorful rock layers are the fossil remains of organisms that lived here millions...
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Vendor: Mountaineers BooksBy: Ralph Lee Hopkins Eager to explore the dramatic canyons, mesas, and isolated mountain ranges of the Colorado Plateau? Discover ancient sand dunes, a vanished sea, and colorful sedimentary layers, places where dinosaurs once roamed? Hike a slot canyon through layers of volcanic tuff...
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Vendor: Mountain PressWhen the first edition of Roadside Geology of Oregon was published in 1978, it was revolutionary—the first book in a series designed to educate, inspire, and wow nongeologists. Back then, the implications of plate tectonic theory were only beginning to shape geologic research and discussion. Geologists...
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Vendor: Utah Geological AssociationEdited by: D. T. Griffen and W. R. PhillipsAs the science of geology moves forward, it is important to give critical areas, such as the Beaver Dam Mountains, a re-examination. Recent thinking on extensional tectonics makes this publication and discussions so much more pertinent....
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Vendor: Chicago DistributionWasatch Eleveners: A Hiking and Climbing Guide to the 11,000-Foot Mountains of Utah's Wasatch Range. The Wasatch Mountains sit on the western edge of the Rockies. Stretching south through Utah from Bear River in the north to Mount Nebo in the central part of...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Richard L. Orndorff, Robert W. Wieder, & David G. Futey Southern Utah's magnificent, enigmatic landforms are famous worldwide. But what carved the goblins in Goblin Valley, the dome at Capitol Reef, Zion's towering sandstone walls, and Bryce's hoodoo fairyland - not to mention...
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Vendor: Chicago DistributionBy: William T. Parry Despite being the second-driest state in the U.S., Utah has some remarkable rivers. The Bear is the longest river in the country that does not empty into an ocean. The Colorado crosses the most structural barriers of any river in...
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Vendor: Indiana University PressThis volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Halka Chronic The rise of mountains and the spread of deserts has marked the geologic history of Arizona. Landscapes that we see here today are here because of landscapes of the past, and because of tremendous forces deep within the earth, forces that...
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Vendor: Mountaineers BooksBy: Lon Abbott & Terri Cook Something for everyone! This guide not only includes information about gentle, half day rim walks and popular rim-to-river trails, but also includes information discussing rugged and remote multi-day backpack trips, for the more extreme hiker. Etched on the...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: David Alt As geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, in dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastrophic proportions. Glacial Lake Missoula and...
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Vendor: Grand Canyon ConservancyDive deep into the geological enigma that is the Grand Canyon with the second edition of "Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery," published by the Grand Canyon Conservancy in 2012. This comprehensive book explores the myriad theories surrounding the canyon's formation, from the...
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Vendor: Longleaf ServicesThis new edition of Donald L. Baars's classic The Colorado Plateau incorporates new text, maps, photographs, figures, tables, and bibliography to provide the most up-to-date geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Four Corners of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Baars's comprehensive...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Richard L. Orndorff and David G. Futey Every landform has a distinct geologic history. A cliff marks the line of a fault, a moraine delineates the edge of a former glacier, and a fin parallels a set of fractures. In Landforms of Southern...
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Vendor: Simon & Schuster PublishingBy: Garrett Romaine Geology is destiny—understand it and life gets easier. Our ancestors grasped enough about their environment to fashion tools, start fires, erect shelters, and find water. The principles they discovered long ago still apply, and the science behind stronger concrete, usable marble,...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Marc S. Hendrix Although it's also known for wolves, bison, and stunning scenery, Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's first national park in 1872 largely because of its geologic wonders. In Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country, author and geologist Marc S....
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