Ancient Landscapes Of The Colorado Plateau
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Author | : Ronald C. Blakey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world's foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney's fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features: More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region
Author | : Ronald C. Blakey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319596365 |
Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas’ shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before. Winner of the 2021 John D. Haun Landmark Publication Award, AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section
Author | : Wayne Ranney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Carving Grand Canyon provides a synopsis of the intriguing ideas and innovative theories that geologists have developed over time. This story of a fascinating landscape is told in an engaging style that nonscientists will find inviting. The story's end, however, remains a mystery yet to be solved.
Author | : Robert Fillmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781607810049 |
An easy-to-read geology tutorial of the of the eastern Colorado Plateau, this book will answer all of your questions about how this stunning region was formed. Includes detailed road logs.
Author | : Betty Leavengood |
Publisher | : Grand Canyon Association |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780938216780 |
Grand Canyon Women tells the humorous and heartbreaking stories of twenty-six remarkable women--Native Americans, river runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, hikers, and housewives--each of whom, in the midst of nature's indiscriminate universe, discovers her identity.
Author | : |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2010-05-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0803229909 |
Written in the tradition of Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams, this collection of essays inspired by a year spent hiking 120 desert canyons explores the "sacred geography" of the West, discussing a wide range of issues, from bears to spatial intelligence.
Author | : Donald L. Baars |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780826323019 |
Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Author | : Gary Ladd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : |
Includes more than 100 photographs of views from overlooks and of inner-canyon sites by accalimed photographer Gary Ladd. In addition, this guide also features facts about dozens of inner-canyon rock formations and other features as well as a reader-friendly narrative concerning the geology, human history, prehistory, ecology, and weather patterns of one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
Author | : Christa Sadler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : NATURE |
ISBN | : 9780938216810 |
An overview of the Colorado Plateau's fossil remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago, featuring numerous illustrations and photographs.
Author | : W. Scott Baldridge |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-05-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521016667 |
This 2004 book provides a concise, accessible account of the geology and landscape of Southwest USA, for students and amateurs.