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 | Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley
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Series: Geology Underfoot
Media: Paperback
Item #: 292 Price: $18.00
ISBN: 0-87842-362-1
Pages: 329 Size: 6 x 9
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| | Eastern California boasts the greatest dryland relief in the contiguous United States--between Mt. Whitney and Death Valley--and that relief exposes spectacular geology. These thirty driving and walking tours each weave the tale of a geological features or relationship in this land of extremes. Some sketches ponder questions that puzzle geologists: how do stones slide across Racetrack playa? Others spotlight the earth-sculpturing role of volcanoes and earthquakes: lava columns at Devils Postpile and fault scarps that shape a golf course. Still others focus on less obvious but equally powerful processes: boulders shattered by salt crystals and rocks blasted by windblown sand. |
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