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Unearth a treasure trove of geological knowledge with this in-depth guide to over 500 rocks and minerals Learn how rocks are formed and how to recognize them by their unique qualities and colors. This is a wonderful book for beginners, students and rock collecting enthusiasts that includes the latest scientific research and specimen classification.
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"This 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 geological summary of the canyonlands is detailed enough to satisfy a geologist looking for an overview of the region yet clearly enough written to appeal to anyone...
8) Earth
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Explores the secrets of the Earth, answering questions about the what lies beneath the Earth's crust, why sea water is salty, what the ocean floor looks like, why Africa is splitting apart, and other topics.
9) Maps
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Information volume 60a
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[date of publication not identified]
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Contains text, downloadable database, and interactive map compiled from available literature about faults and folds that are known or suspected to have moved during the late Cenozoic and that cut Miocene or younger rocks. Data compiled at 1:250,000.
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[1996]
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This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology gathering under the title Annals of the Former World: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California.