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Eyewitness books volume 2
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Unearth a treasure trove of geological knowledge with this in-depth guide to over 500 rocks and minerals"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
213 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life-past and present-in the high plains of Wyoming.
Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 329 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell-clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world-making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect. This was the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle, the other volumes of which, were written or edited by the commanders of the ships. Journal and Remarks covers Darwin's part in the second survey expedition of the ship...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 131 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An explanation of key concepts of tectonics and rock structures. The reader is introduced to large-scale Earth structure and theory of plate tectonics before dealing with geological structures such as faults and folds, and the final three chapters deal with orogenic belts.
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