Elsevier, 2017. — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812067-5. This book is the product of more than 30 years of research explaining the evolution of the quaternary relief of a geomorphologically diverse country. The book details the physical landscape of Costa Rica, with an emphasis on potential threats to the landscape, such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, and sea level rise. The...
Springer, 2018. — 233 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-59634-1. 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...
Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 612 p. Foreword by Lee H. Whittlesey, Park Historian, Yellowstone National Park. A Special Warning - Travel in Off-Trail and Backcountry Thermal Areas. About Geysers. Some Background on the Yellowstone Geysers. Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park. Upper Geyser Basin. Old Faithful Group. Geyser Hill Group. Castle, Sawmill,...
Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands, Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin. Three books on geology by Charles Darwin, with illustrations. Coral reefs. Volcanic islands. Geology of South America. English original text. 57 illustrations.
Monograph, Springer, 2009, 390 p., ISBN: 978-3-540-25008-1 This is the first book to cover the Holocene geology and geomorphology of the 9,200 kilometers of the Brazilian coast. It is written for third and fourth year undergraduates, post-graduate students, scientists and managers. It characterizes the Brazilian coast in terms of the Holocene geology, geomorphology,...
Geological Society of America, Inc. (GSA), 2008. — 270 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8137-0011-3. Spectacular geology in the Lake Mead area just west of Las Vegas. The River Mountains volcanic section (foreground in Nevada) and the Wilson Ridge pluton (on the skyline to the east in Arizona) represent a linked volcanic-plutonic system separated by the Saddle Island detachment fault. The mesa...
Springer, 2018. — 569 p. — (Springer Earth System Sciences). — ISBN: 978-3-319-67773-6. This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics; magmatism; long and short term...
2nd Edition. — Elsevier, 2019. — 802 p. — ISBN: 978-0-444-63895-3. This book, Second Edition, focuses on the large, regional, sedimentary accumulations in Canada and the United States. Each chapter provides a succinct summary of the tectonic setting and structural and paleogeographic evolution of the basin it covers, with details on structure and stratigraphy. The book features...
Tulsa: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1994. — 152 p. — (AAPG Studies in Geology #39). Available knowledge concerning the origin and geologic structure of mexico is still incomplete. Each day scientific discoveries, advances in mapping, and new techniques of exploration offer more information toward the development of tour understanding. Nevertheless, it is...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. – 2004. – 275 p. This book about Minnesota's geology was written in an effort to share with all interested persons the excitement of scientific discovery and the fascinating story held within the rocks and landscape of an area we both have come to know as field geologists and as continuing students of earth history. Just as the earth...
Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press, 2007. — 240 p. — ISBN: 142004558X. Painting a complete picture of the history of the Everglades, The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas brings together theperspectives of various geoscientists to provides an overview of the geology, paleontology, and paleoceanography of the Everglades region. It emphasizes the upper 300 m of the geologic...
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