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Chargement... Roadside Geology of Colorado (Roadside Geology Series)par Felicie Williams, Halka Chronic (Auteur)
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"White and red sandstones, green shales, and pink granites are hard to appreciate in black and white. Two-color maps cannot do justice to the many patterns in the bedrock geology. A state with places like the Painted Wall, the Florissant Fossil Beds, and the Maroon Bells deserves a color edition. That is why Mountain Press teamed up with authors Felicie Williams and Halka Chronic to produce a color edition of Roadside Geology of Colorado. The updated text includes information about new discoveries, such as the mammoth fossils at Snowmass. This third edition is a must-have book for your geology collection"--Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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published: 2014 (first edition 1980, 2nd 2002)
format: ~382-page Kindle ebook
acquired: July 15 read: Jul 15-25 time reading: 17:43, 2.8 mpp
rating: 4
genre/style: popular science theme: geology/travel
about the author: Halka Chronic: 1923-2013, an American geologist born in Tucson, AR. Felicie Williams: 1953-2015, daughter of Halka, an American geologist born in Boulder, CO.
So tragic story behind this. The authors were mother and daughter. Halka Chronic, author of the original edition (and also of Roadside Geology guides for Utah, Arizona and New Mexico) died in 2013, age 93, the year before this 3rd edition. Felicie Williams, a mine mineral mapper, died of cancer (work related?) the year after, age 62. Who will do the next edition?
But it‘s good stuff, on a very complicated place.
I read it through, mostly while in the above pictured mountains (see link below) in CO last week (and the flights there and back) and enjoyed it quite a bit. The geological maps of mountains can really undermine the desire for order and explanation. The authors do a great job of providing lots of local simplified geological maps and explanations so the reader can work out the bigger geological trends. The bad thing is those maps are not located on any reference map, so sometimes I needed Google Maps to figure out where the map was.
2022
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