Rough-hewn land : a geologic journey from California to the Rocky Mountains /
"Rough-Hewn Land tells the geologic story of the American West--the story of its rocks, rivers, mountains, earthquakes, and mineral wealth, including gold. It tells it by taking you on a 1000-mile-long field trip across the rough side of the continent from the California coast to the Rocky Moun...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. California. Golden Gate ; Mother lode ; Rivers of gold ; A traverse across the range of light ; Where is the edge of the North American plate?
- pt. 2. The Basin and Range and the Great Basin. Where rivers die ; The growing pains of mountains ; Wealth and magma ; Water and salt ; Evolution's big bang
- pt. 3. The Rocky Mountains. Range-roving rivers ; Up from the basement ; At the frontier
- Appendix 1. Deep time : fathoming the rock record
- Appendix 2. Seeing for yourself.