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The broken land : adventures in Great Basin geology / Frank L. DeCourten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeCourten, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geology--Great Basin.
- Geology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The only book available covering the geology of the entire Great Basin. Written in accessible language with 200 photographs.
- Contents:
- The fallen land
- The breaking of a continent
- Water bugs in stone houses
- The sun always shines on the Ordovician
- Mississippian mayhem
- The Sonoma event and other Mesozoic convulsions
- The fires below
- The army of caterpillars and the conflagration
- Fire and ice : the modern Great Basin emerges
- Closing circle, unfinished story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874807506
- 0874807514
- OCLC:
- 51615306
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