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Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California (Roadside Geology) by David Alt Publisher Comments Informative travel companions about roadside terrain and geology with photos, diagrams, and glossary.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Geology of Death Valley : Landforms, Crustal Extension, Geologic History, Road Guides (2ND 05 Edition) by Marli B. Miller Book News Annotation For the general reader, geologists Miller (U. of Oregon) and Wright explore the geologic history, landforms, and geologic processes of Death Valley, which is the hottest area in the US and also features many rock types. Maps and photographs accompany... (read more) List Price $28.30 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey Into Earth's Deep History by Jan Zalasiewicz Publisher Comments This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Roadside Geology of Wyoming 2ND Edition by David Lageson Publisher Comments Informative travel companions about roadside terrain and geology with photos, diagrams, and glossary.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Windows Into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks by Robert B. Smith Publisher Comments Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho.... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever recorded and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us. Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Mountains of St. Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth by Walter Alvarez Publisher Comments The new work by the bestselling author of "T. Rex and the Crater of Doom" takes readers on an excavation of the earths distant past. In Alvarezs telling, all major geologic episodes are as dramatic as the great impact that killed the dinosaurs, even when... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America by Jerry Thompson Synopsis There is a crack in the earths crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Basin and Range (81 Edition) by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The first of John McPhees works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern worlda history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Roadside Geology of New York (Roadside Geology) by Bradford B. Van Diver Publisher Comments Informative travel companions about roadside terrain and geology with photos, diagrams, and glossary.... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Trade Paper
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Seashell on the Mountaintop : a Story of Science Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth (03 Edition) by Alan Cutler Publisher Comments Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed by Stephen Jay Gould as "the founder of geology," solved the puzzle, looking directly at the clues left in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains by Edmund Stump Publisher Comments The Transantarctic Mountains are the most remote mountain belt on Earth, an utterly pristine wilderness of ice and rock rising to majestic heights and extending for 1,500 miles. In this book, Edmund Stump is the first to show us this continental-scale... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Practical Geologist (92 Edition) by Dougal Dixon Publisher Comments Via words and pictures, this book explores the Earth's formation and development, the substances that compose the planet, movements within the Earth, and much more. 200 four-color photos; line drawings throughout. Index.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Exploring Geology (3RD 13 Edition) by Stephen Reynolds Publisher Comments Exploring Geology by Reynolds/Johnson/Kelly/Morin/Carter is an innovative textbook intended for an introductory college geology course, such as Physical Geology. This ground-breaking, visually spectacular book was designed from cognitive and educational... (read more) List Price $162.95 Your price: $115.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Roadside Geology of Indiana (99 Edition) by Mark J. Camp Publisher Comments Professional geologists write and edit the "Roadside Geology" books for people who are not geologists but would like to learn something about the rocks and landforms around them. Each book begins with an introductory chapter that briefly reviews the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Evidence from the Earth: Forensic Geology and Criminal Investigation by Raymond C. Murray Publisher Comments This popular introduction to forensic geology the science of tracing muddy footprints, finding buried bodies, and exposing gem and mineral fraud is now even better. With more than fifteen new case studies and several new forensic techniques, Evidence... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances by Cathy (edt) Busby Publisher Comments All the planet's oil and gas reserves are concentrated in sedimentary basins. This book covers these dynamic entities and the way they form in time and space and the state of the art in research on sedimentary tectonics. Focusing on results of global... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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Geology in the Field (85 Edition) by Robert R. Compton Publisher Comments Replaces Compton's Manual of Field Geology (1962). A guide to advances in the increasingly broad and interpretive discipline of formation mapping theory. Thorough, yet compact enough for use in the field, it consists of brief descriptions of textures and... (read more) List Price $132.50 Your price: $89.00 Used - Hardcover
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Roadside Geology of Idaho (Roadside Geology) by David Alt Publisher Comments Informative travel companions about roadside terrain and geology with photos, diagrams, and glossary.... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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