Ohio Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Buckeye State

Ohio Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Buckeye State

Written by: Albert Binkly Dickas, Ph.D.
Softbound 133 pages

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Ohio was born billions of years ago, during a time when ancient mini-continents crystallized and merged into larger continents.  Its youth was marked by the coming and going of oceans and the advent of life.  The Buckeye State matured when ice sheets scoured its landscape.  This storyline is writ large and small in Ohio’s rocks, from its flat till plains to the rumpled and hollowed landscape of the Appalachian Plateau.

In Ohio Rocks!, skilled writher and geologist Albert Dickas takes you to some of the state’s most interesting geologic chapters.  At Blackhand Gorge the sandy deposits of ancient sea where cut and sculpted by glacial melt-water.  In Scioto County you can trace the margins of a ghost river.  And you can visit the historic Buckeye Furnace, which produced enough pig iron to make Ohio an industrial giant.  Ohio Rocks! is the third book in the state-by-state Geology Rocks! series, which introduces readers to some of the most compelling and accessible geologic sites in each state.