Roadside Geology of Arizona - by Halka Chronic (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The rise of mountains and the spread of deserts has marked the geologic history of Arizona. Landscapes that we see today are here because of landscapes of the past, and because of tremendous forces deep within the earth, forces that carry continents into collisions and then drag them apart again, forces of heat and pressure and the slow churning boil of the earth's interior. Landscape features result, too, from more comprehensible, more recent forces: the unending attack of water and wind and frost, the building of volcanoes, the short-term geologic happenings like landslides and rockfalls, earthquakes and floods, and a gopher digging a hole.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Here are a few things to do on a highway trip: Play 20 Questions, plug your kids into some sort of electronic anodyne, lose your mind. Here's another idea: Look for gneisses and amphibolites; seek out scarps, klippes and fault slices. Head for the Silurian boundary. Instead of feeling miserable and confined, feel the bones of the earth as you ride past the exposed evidence of the planet's history. . . . That's roadside geology, road food for the mind and eye."<br><br>"Roadside Geology of Arizona made sense of the landscape out the car window, from the rise of mountains to the spread of deserts."<br>
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