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Roadside Geology of Oregon (Roadside Geology) by David D Alt Publisher Comments "[It] provides a handy and understandable account, either to read at home, or to carry along on trips."-Oregon Historical... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese Staff Pick Coal generates over half of the electricity we consume yet we know little about this charred material save a few mining songs and horror stories about canaries and black lungs. In this sumptuous book we follow the black rock through time and discover its... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee From Powells.com In 1978, New Yorker science writer John McPhee set out on a series of road trips with prominent geologists. In each case, they remained close to Interstate 80, which spans the country at about the 40th parallel. McPhee's purpose was to write an... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide by Michael Allaby Publisher Comments This sumptuously illustrated, beautifully written encyclopedia, the best book available on the topic, presents the most up-to-date information about planet Earth in a style and format that will appeal to an extremely wide range of readers. With thousands... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Diagenesis, I by G.V. Chilingarian Publisher Comments Diagenesis is a highly developed, interdisciplinary field of study. It is reciprocal in that it borrows from numerous scientific or technological specialities and then, in turn, repays them with useful results. Too often, however, the information gained... (read more) List Price $145.00 Your price: $139.56 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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University of California Publications. Anthropological Recor #140: The Bug Creek Problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition at McGuire Creek, Montana by Donald L. Lofgren Publisher Comments Bug Creek assemblages from Montana, transitional in composition between typical Cretaceous and Paleocene vertebrate faunas, are critical to K-T extinction debates because they have been used to support both gradual and catastrophic K-T extinction... (read more) Your price: $56.95 New - Trade Paper
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Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes by Simon Lamb Publisher Comments Lamb tells of how he and a team of geologists spent much of the last decade exploring the Bolivian Andes--a region rocked by earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions--to figure out how high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth.... (read more) List Price $46.00 Your price: $11.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault by Philip L Fradkin Publisher Comments The archetypal natural disaster defined on the verge of the millennium. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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