101 American GEO-SITES You’ve Gotta See – A Tourism Book
Written by: Albert Binkley Dickas, Ph.D.
Softbound, 264 Pages, 176 Color Photographs, 151 Color Illustrations
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Rocks racing across a lakebed in Death Valley. Perfectly preserved 36-million-year-old tsetse flies in Colorado. Dinosaur track-ways cemented into ancient floodplains in Connecticut. A gaping rift in the Idaho desert. What do these enigmatic geologic phenomena have in common? Besides initiating a profusion of head-scratching over the years, these sites of geologic wonder appear side by side, for the first time, in a single publication.
Examining in detail at least one amazing site for all fifty states, Albert Dickas clearly explains the geologic force behind each one’s origin in 101 American Geo-Sites You’ve Gotta See. Dickas discusses not only iconic landforms such as Devil’s Tower in Wyoming but also locals that are often overlooked yet have fascinating stories. Consider the Reel-foot scarp in Tennessee: to the casual observer it is nothing more than a slight rise in a farm field. Yet this subtle slope represents a rift formed during an 1812 earthquake that forced the mighty Mississippi to flow upstream. Or Louisiana’s unassuming, low-lying Avery Island, which actually caps an 8.5-mile-high column of salt. Amply illustrated with full-color photographs and illustrations and written in clear yet playful prose, 101 American Geo-Sites You’ve Gotta See will entertain and inform amateur and seasoned geology buffs whether from an armchair or in the field.
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