Geology underfoot in Yellowstone country /
- 出版日期：2011.
- 出版者：Mountain Press Pub. Co.,
- 页数：x, 302 p. :
- 出版地：Missoula, Mont. :
- 第一责任说明：Marc S. Hendrix.
- 尺寸：23 cm.
- 分类号：a254.2
- ISBN：9780878425761(pbk.) :
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02h0047775 20141224170203.0 141201s2011 mouab frb |001|||eng | 9780878425761(pbk.) : CNY173.00 DLC eng DLC YDX ; BTCTA ; YDXCP ; NTE ; IG# ; UBY ; BDX ; OCLCF ; OCLCO ; CNNGL pcc n-us-wy ; n-us-mt ; n-us-id QE79 .H46 2011 557.87/52 22 a254.2 aP567.12 v5 Hendrix, Marc S., 1963- Geology underfoot in Yellowstone country / Marc S. Hendrix. Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub. Co., 2011. x, 302 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm. Geology underfoot Includes bibliographical references and index. The missing record of deep time : the great uncomformity in Shoshone River Canyon -- Invasion of the trilobites : Cambrian Sea life flourishes near Cody -- Limy record of shallow seas : Mississippian limestone at Pebble Creek Campground -- The cretaceous interior seaway : Marine deposits in Gardner River Canyon -- Mountains reduced to rubble : Sphinx Mountain and the Helmet -- Basement rock on the rise : uplift of Rattlesnake and Cedar Mountains -- Strange brew : the unusual volcanic rocks near Sylvan Pass -- Debris flow deposits : coarse conglomerate between Cody and east entrance -- Fossilized forests : petrified wood in Tim Miner Basin -- From playa lakes to rushing rivers : landscape changes recorded at Hepburn's Mesa -- Arrival of the hot spot : the first caldera-forming eruption in Yellowstone -- The Yellowstone volcano erupts again! : tuff smothers the region and a caldera forms -- The youngest eruptions : rhyolite flows in the Firehole River drainage -- Ice sculptures along the Beartooth Highway : glaciers carve Yellowstone landscapes -- Rivers of dirty ice : glacial deposits in northern Yellowstone -- Melting ice and sliding shale : floods and earthflows near Gardiner -- Terraced travertines : Mammoth's famous hot springs -- Siliceous sinter : Old Faithful and Upper Geyser Basin -- Hydrothermal explosions : Norris Geyser Basin and Yellowstone Lake's north shore -- The night the ground shook : the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake. Although it s also known for for wolves, bison, and stunning scenery, Yellowstone National Park was established as the world s first national park in 1872 largely because of its geological wonders. In Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country , author and geologist Marc Hendrix takes you to over twenty sites in the park and surrounding region that illustrate the deep-time story of Yellowstone Country, from its early existence as a seafloor hundreds of millions of years ago to an earthquake swarm in 2008 that caused some folks to wonder if the Yellowstone Volcano was going to blow its top again. Besides covering icons such as Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country visits sites that are less well known but just as mind blowing, including outcrops of rock deposited by superfast incendiary flows of hot ash; the glacially sculpted grandeur of the Beartooth and Absaroka mountains witnessed along the Beartooth Highway; and the deadly Madison landslide that killed twenty-eight people in 1959. With prose tooled for the lay reader and a multitude of colorful photos and illustrations, Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country will help you read the landscape the way a geologist does. The Geology Underfoot series encourages you to get out of your car for an up-close look at rocks and landforms. These books inform and enlighten, no matter how much or how little geology you already know. What s more, they re simply good reading, on-site or at home. Geology Yellowstone National Park Region Guidebooks. Yellowstone National Park Guidebooks. Geology underfoot. aCN b010001 010001 254.2 H38 gljx1405 h1 ; rCNY173.00