Roadside Geology of Utah (Roadside Geology Series)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0878422285 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 326 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She now lives in Sedona, Arizona. Her career has taken her all over the globe--from teaching at Haile Selassie University in Ethiopia to identifying geologic landmarks for the United States Park Service in the southern Rockies. Halka Chronic received a doctorate in geology from Columbia University in 1949
"study a bit before you use it" according to C. Brown. I'd recommend a little study of geology, and the formations found in Utah before hitting the road with this book. KC Publications study a bit before you use it C. Brown I'd recommend a little study of geology, and the formations found in Utah before hitting the road with this book. KC Publications 48 page glossy color "Colorado Plateau", which I found at one of the National Parks, gives you a great introduction to a good fraction of Utah and shows the positions of the formations along with a time line. If you are a layman at geology, unless you prepare, you will get dizzy with references to formations aided only by black and white pictures. The lack of color illustrations is puzzling when color means so much in identification of rocks in the area. If you can easily recogniz. 8 page glossy color "Colorado Plateau", which I found at one of the National Parks, gives you a great introduction to a good fraction of Utah and shows the positions of the formations along with a time line. If you are a layman at geology, unless you prepare, you will get dizzy with references to formations aided only by black and white pictures. The lack of color illustrations is puzzling when color means so much in identification of rocks in the area. If you can easily recogniz. "Five Stars" according to Gary Searby. Excellent source for a Utah road trip.. A Customer said Served me well. I just spent two weeks on the Colorado plateau with a geology field studies class. This, a geo dictionary and Desert Solitaire were the only books I brought with me (I came home with more of course!), and I was OK. I would say that the layout of the book is fairly accessible. If you are familiar with the series, you know it is arranged by highway. Compared however with the lecture notes I was taking, the geology was rather rudimentary. But, if you are just passing through (be sure to haul along Roadside Arizona, Colorado, or wherever else you may be when you run out of Utah road, and the book dead ends) than
No one can ignore the colorful rocks of Utah: the Vermilion Cliffs of Wingate sandstone, the snow white and salmon pink bluffs of Navajo sandstone, or the yellow and pink rhyolite of Big Rock Candy Mountain. Roadside Geology of Utah is a riveting account of the forces that made the brilliant cliffs, mountains, and canyonlands we see today. The author's smooth prose brings the rocks of Utah and their long history into sharp and enjoyable focus.
"I am pleased to recommend this book as an excellent place to become acquainted with one of the most diversely geologically interesting states in the nation." --Journal of Geological Education