ROADSIDE GEOLOGY BOOKS
A wonderful geological description of history, formations, and topography. Covers each individual state in detail.
![]() ISBN 0-87842-063-0; ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF OREGON: First Edition 1978; (Soft Cover) ALT & HYNDMAN- 278 Pages; $16.00 Oregon's story begins with her rocks and this is their story-how they formed through a series of great events that left their mark indelibly stamped on the landscapes and in the rocks of Oregon. This book tells the non-geologist how to read that story and find new meaning in familiar scenes. The authors, both professional geologists, guide the reader along Oregon's roads explaining the geology in clear and readable prose brightened by numerous sketches and photographs. Their book is comprehensive, authorative and absolutely up-to-date yet resolutely non-technical and delightfully informal.
ISBN 0-87842-203-X; ROAD SIDE GEOLOGY OF VERMONT & NEW HAMPSHIRE: (Soft Cover) 330 Pages 1987 Edition VAN DIVER; $14.00 Covers Vermont and New Hampshire Glaciated. Plate Tectonics of Vermont and New Hampshire and the drifting plates of the continents. Rock structures, folding, faulting, and joining. Areas between Canadian Boarder to Burlington, VT., Montpellier, to White River Junction VT., to Concord NH., the Connetecticut River Valley, to Massachusetts Border, to White River Junction and Barnet, to Derby Line, to Salem and Plymouth NH., to Johnsbury VT., to the Chaplin Islands Montpelier to the Main boarder, to Twin Mountain NH. to the Canadian Boarder Durham to Concord, White River Junction to Fair haven VT., to Massachusetts, to Rutland, VT. A side trip to Proctor the "Marble Center" of Vermont. Another side trip to the Barre Granit Quarries. Barr VT. to the Main boarder. Brattleboro to New York boarder, Northern Vermont Traverse Alburg to Derby Center and the Talc Road.
ROAD SIDE GEOLOGY OF ALASKA: CONNER & O'HAIRE B0128; (soft cover) 256 pages; $18.00
ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF IDAHO: ALT & HYNDMAN B0115; (soft cover); 393 pages; $20.00
SBN 87842-216-1; ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF WYOMING:2nd Edition May 2004 271 Pages (Soft Cover); Lageson & Spearing; $18.00 Wyoming is grander: endless plains that sweep beyond the farthest horizon, mountains that challenge the sky, badlands as colorful as any painting. And it all depends on the rocks. Here are Wyoming's rocks and landscapes in all their richness and variety. Here is the story of how it came to be.
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![]() ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: ALT & HYNDMAN B0118; (soft cover) 244 pages; $20.00
FIRE MOUNTAINS OF THE WEST: HARRIS The Cascades and mono Lake Volcanoes- Dramatic photos and two colored maps graphically illustrate the story of these magnificent mountains. 148 illustrations and photo's. B0131; (soft cover) 376 pages; $16.00
ISBN 0-87842-147-5; ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF ARIZONA: 1983 Edition 321 Pages (Soft Cover); Halka Chronic; $18.00 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 landscapes of the past, and because of tremendous forces deep within the earth, forces that carry cotenants into collisions and then drag them apart again, forces of heat and pressure and the slow churning boil of the earths interior. Landscape features result, too, from comprehensible, more recent forces: the unending attack of water, wind and frost, the building of volcanoes, the short-term geological happenings like landslides and rockfalls. earthquakes and floods, and a gopher digging a hole........
ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA: VAN DIVER B0114; (soft cover); 352 pages; $20.00 ISBN 0-87842-199-8; ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF VIRGINIA- 1986 Edition, 278 Pages (Soft Cover); Keith Frye; $16.00 Here between the two covers, are the rocks of Virginia on all their variety and complexity and the landscapes that express them in their beauty. This book was written for people who are not geologists, but the treatment is detailed and authorative enough to inform those who are. A book for everyone who lives or travels in Virginia. ISBN 0-87842-503-9; Roadside Geology of British Columbia; Bill Mathews & Jim Monger; (Soft Cover) 404 Pages; First Printing July 2005; $25.00 Southern British Columbia, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alberta border east of Golden, spans the Canadian Cordillera, a mountainous region with a tumultuous geological history that continues to evolve with every volcanic eruption, landslide, and earthquake. Introductory sections of this guidebook interpret the geologic complexity of four regions. Vancouver Island, the Coast, the Interior Plateaus, and the Columbia and Ricky Mountains. Thirty-one road guides describe the rocks and landforms that are visible from the provenance's highways and ferry routs. Discover lava that chilled beneath the ice, learn how engineers blew-up a shoal in the narrowest part of the inside passage, and drive across a slow-moving earth flow. |
![]() ISBN 0-87842-447-4; ROAD SIDE GEOLOGY OF COLORADO: 2nd Edition, June 2005; (Soft Cover); HALKA CHRONIC & FELICIE WILLIAMS The rocks and landforms have not changed much since the publication of the first edition of Roadside Geology of Colorado in 1980, but our understanding of them has. With expanded coverage, updated maps, new photographs, and the latest geological interpretations, this nontechnical guide introduces you to the tumultuous geological history of Colorado's mountains, plateaus, and plains. The second edition includes tours of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Mesa Verde National Park, and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. SEVEN NEW ROADS COVERED B0119; (soft cover), 399 pages; $20.00
The Roadside Geology of Montana is a completely new book, not a revision of the old Roadside Geology of the Northern Rockies. It provides new interpolations of the Rocky Mountains based on modern theories of plate tectonics, and includes detailed geologic maps drawn from the latest complications. Although, obviously authorative, the text is written in plain English that any reader will find easy to understand. Profusely illustrated with maps, cross-sections, diagrams, and photographs. ISBN 0-87842-202-1; ROAD SIDE GEOLOGY OF MONTANA: 9th Edition June 2000 (Soft Cover) 427 Pages; Alt & Hyndman; $20.00 ISBN 0-87842-147-5; ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF ARIZONA: 1983 Edition 321 Pages (Soft Cover); Halka Chronic; $18.00 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 landscapes of the past, and because of tremendous forces deep within the earth, forces that carry cotenants into collisions and then drag them apart again, forces of heat and pressure and the slow churning boil of the earths interior. Landscape features result, too, from comprehensible, more recent forces: the unending attack of water, wind and frost, the building of volcanoes, the short-term geological happenings like landslides and rockfalls. earthquakes and floods, and a gopher digging a hole........ ISBN 0-87842-170-X; ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY: 1985 Edition FRITZ (Soft Cover); $18.00
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