How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America Dvorak John
The incredible story of the creation of a continent--our continent-- from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. "Exuberant. Dvorak is a wonderful storyteller [and] challenges…
Specifikacia How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America Dvorak John
The incredible story of the creation of a continent--our continent-- from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. "Exuberant. Dvorak is a wonderful storyteller [and] challenges the conventional wisdom. This will enrich your everyday personal experiences."--The Wall Street JournalThe immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives--and the entirety of human history--are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet?For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused
Population History of North America
Mammals of North America