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The prose is musical and crafted and evocative. - Goodreads This was a wonderful book by a great writer. - Goodreads McPhee's a good writer, no doubt. - Goodreads Through his prose, mountains tell their stories. - Goodreads this is a compendium of five geology books. - Goodreads Without pictures I couldn't visualize. - Goodreads Review: Annals of the Former WorldUser Review - Terri - GoodreadsI'll admit... I gave up reading this book after 40 pages. The prose was beautiful and McPhee clearly poured his heart and soul into researching and writing the book. But, as a parent, student and ... Read full review Review: Annals of the Former WorldUser Review - GoodreadsTwenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the ... Related books
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Common terms and phrasesAnita Appalachians Archean basalt Basin and Range blocks boulders California called Canyon conodonts continent continental craton Creek Cretaceous deep Deffeyes deposits Devonian earth earthquake east Eocene fault flat fossils gabbro geologists geology glacial glacier gold granite gravel happened hills hot spots hundred miles hundred million Interstate 80 island arc Jurassic Lake Laramie limestone look Love magma mantle million years ago miners Moores mountains moved Nevada North America ocean crust ophiolites Ordovician Orogeny outcrop Pacific Pacific Plate Paleozoic Pennsylvania peridotite plain plate tectonics Precambrian ranch ridges rising road roadcuts rock Rockies San Andreas San Andreas Fault sand sandstone seafloor sediments serpentine shale side Sierra Smartville snow spreading center story streams structure subduction surface terrane theory There’s thousand feet transform faults trench Triassic twentyfive valley volcanic Water Gap western Wind River Wyoming Bibliographic information
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