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With more than 130 color photographs and 170 drawings, this book shows how to read geological history: plate movements, earthquakes, glaciers, rivers, seas, and other forces that have shaped the earth over millions of years. Each geological region of eastern North America is described vividly and illustrated with detailed maps and cross sections. Highway tours tell where to go to find the best examples of each kind of formation.
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David C. Roberts has been a curator of paleontology, a high school science teacher, a petroleum geologist, and an editor. David lives in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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This book will help you to read the testimony of the rocks, to understand their origins and histories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
greenstone islands, terrestrial sandstone, nian rocks, gneiss belt, metasedimentary belt, last ice cap, metamorphosed volcanic rocks, overthrust block, major moraines, shale extend, geologic time chart, cave zone, bedrock changes, erosion remnants, glacial boundary, molten minerals, pillow structures, continental core, highway traverses, shale outcrop, glacial effects, outcrop area, rock series, highway sections, metamorphosed sedimentary rocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coastal Plain, New York, Appalachian Province, Acadian Orogeny, Blue Ridge, Acadian Zone, New England, Alleghenian Orogeny, Taconic Orogeny, North America, West Virginia, Cincinnati Arch, Avalonian Zone, Great Plains, New Hampshire, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Great Valley, Grenville Province, Taconian Zone, North Carolina, Paleozoic Era, Michigan Basin, New Jersey, Southern Province New!
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greenstone islands, terrestrial sandstone, nian rocks, gneiss belt, metasedimentary belt, last ice cap, metamorphosed volcanic rocks, overthrust block, major moraines, shale extend, geologic time chart, cave zone, bedrock changes, erosion remnants, glacial boundary, molten minerals, pillow structures, continental core, highway traverses, shale outcrop, glacial effects, outcrop area, rock series, highway sections, metamorphosed sedimentary rocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coastal Plain, New York, Appalachian Province, Acadian Orogeny, Blue Ridge, Acadian Zone, New England, Alleghenian Orogeny, Taconic Orogeny, North America, West Virginia, Cincinnati Arch, Avalonian Zone, Great Plains, New Hampshire, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Great Valley, Grenville Province, Taconian Zone, North Carolina, Paleozoic Era, Michigan Basin, New Jersey, Southern Province New!
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- The Connecticut River by Evan Hill on page 256, and page 395
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