With an informal Q-and-A format and fun, informative language, this book brings the often-esoteric science of geology into the hands of rock climbers. Winner of the 2009 Banff Mountain Book Award for mountain exposition.
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This innovative new book sheds light on the science behind the stone that supports our fingertips. Informative, fascinating, and useful, F, J & S brings the rock alive. --J. Popowich
--Winner of the 2009 Banff Mountain Book Award
High on the "Cool, I didn't know that!" factor, the guide will give you a new eye for and a lasting appreciation of all stones, big and small. --Climbing magazine
The beauty of Flakes, Jugs & Splitters is its easily digestible and applicable information. The book is user friendly, with well-explained answers and a Q&A format.
--Rock and Ice magazine
--Winner of the 2009 Banff Mountain Book Award
High on the "Cool, I didn't know that!" factor, the guide will give you a new eye for and a lasting appreciation of all stones, big and small. --Climbing magazine
The beauty of Flakes, Jugs & Splitters is its easily digestible and applicable information. The book is user friendly, with well-explained answers and a Q&A format.
--Rock and Ice magazine
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Rock climbers have an inherent interest in geology. For some, it’s about knowing what gear to use or how to avoid rotten bands of rock. For others, it’s about finding the next hot-spot boulder field, or understanding why a local crag exists. For most of them, curiosity about rocks comes as naturally as their desire to climb them. Geology is the fundamental control on the sport, and yet until now, there have been no practical guides for the climber interested in the science of rocks.
Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters fills this niche. With an informal Q&A format and fun, informative language, this user-friendly guide brings the often esoteric science of geology into the hands of rock climbers. Covering topics from how to use a geologic map and find new crags to why Europe has the best limestone and how El Capitan’s North America Wall got its name, it addresses a fact for every climber’s ponderings. Stunning photographs of worldwide destinations and easy-to-read artist’s renderings of geologic concepts make this essential new resource as visually engaging as it is entertaining and edifying.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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GREAT fun and informative too!,
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This review is from: Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology (How To Climb Series) (Paperback)
This book has so much going for it! It is a wonderful blend of science and rock climbers curiosity. I've found myself hanging around the campfire at night reading sections to other climbers - everyone getting excited for their next road trip. The geological history is just enough to satisfy the academic without boring the artistic climber. Only thing that I find myself wanting is MORE, more areas, more questions answered, more places to dream of visiting and touching the rock. Thank you for this gem. Makes a great gift too!
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Nice resource to understanding the geology of rock climbing,
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This review is from: Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology (How To Climb Series) (Paperback)
I bought this book as a way to learn about the different rock types out there that we climb on. The information in this book is a great start. The author does a good job introducing the reader to the different classifications of rock and where to find them. The only gripe I have is that there are not enough pictures that allow you to really identify with the rock types. I would have liked to have seen close up photos of say sandstone, shale, schist, gneiss, granite, etc. [...] has some great photos that accomplish this.
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This review is from: Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology (How To Climb Series) (Paperback)
this is a must have for any climber's library. even the least geologically minded people (like me) still wonder about rock color and patterns, formations and features, what can be trusted and what to stay away from. you can flip to any page and learn something that is sure to be useful knowledge next time you are out there.
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wild iris, climbing areas, extensional forces, divergent boundaries, tectonic boundary, tectonic environment, hot mantle, quartz monzonite, continental fragments, alkali feldspar, intrusive igneous rock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Rocky Mountains, South America, Indian Creek, Sierra Nevada, Baffin Island, Red River Gorge, Mount Lemmon, Joshua Tree, American West, New Zealand, Farallon Plate, Devils Tower, New Mexico, New River Gorge, Pacific Plate, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Red Rocks, Cerro Torre, City of Rocks, Smith Rock, Appalachian Mountains, Alaska Range, Hueco Tanks, North Carolina Browse Sample Pages:
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wild iris, climbing areas, extensional forces, divergent boundaries, tectonic boundary, tectonic environment, hot mantle, quartz monzonite, continental fragments, alkali feldspar, intrusive igneous rock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Rocky Mountains, South America, Indian Creek, Sierra Nevada, Baffin Island, Red River Gorge, Mount Lemmon, Joshua Tree, American West, New Zealand, Farallon Plate, Devils Tower, New Mexico, New River Gorge, Pacific Plate, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Red Rocks, Cerro Torre, City of Rocks, Smith Rock, Appalachian Mountains, Alaska Range, Hueco Tanks, North Carolina Browse Sample Pages:
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