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Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
This publication presents descriptions of the formations present in the subsurface in northwestern Arkansas. It includes: Stratigraphy of the Powell dolomite, Everton formation, St. Peter sandstone, Joachim dolomite, Plattin-Kimmswick limestones, Fernvale limestone-Boone formation, Fayetteville shale, Pitkin limestone, Morrow group, Atoka formation, Post-Atoka Pennsylvanian. It also includes: structure of these units, oil and gas possibilities of...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 558
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Humanity's impact on the planet has been profound. From fire, intensive hunting, and agriculture, it has accelerated into rapid climate change, widespread pollution, plastic accumulation, and the mass extinction of species--changes that have left a mark in the geological record of the rocks. Yet, the proposal for a new unit of geological time--the Anthropocene Epoch--has raised debate far beyond geological circles. The Anthropocene has emerged as...
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Come closer and look at these rocks: they're not normal stones at all! They're thousands and thousands of mollusks, fossilized together in the sediment. But how did a million oysters ever land on top of a mountain? Written by a geologist, this inquisitive journey guides readers through the movements of seas, strata, and tectonic plates. The landscapes of the present can be clues to events in the past. Lush, atmospheric illustrations offer fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his medition on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...
Author
Series
Arkansas Archeological Survey research report volume no. 31
Publisher
Arkansas Archeological Survey
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story starts with William Smith's early years, from apprentice to surveyor for hire, and from publication of his groundbreaking 1815 geological strata map to imprisonment for debt. Smith's 1799 geological map of Bath and table of strata, his first strata map of England and Wales, published in 1801, and photographs of some of Smith's collection of 2,000 fossils illustrate the tale. The remainder of the book is organized into four parts, each beginning...
Author
Publisher
Flamboyant
Pub. Date
noviembre de 2019.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cómo han llegado unas ostras hasta lo alto de una montaña? Después de millones de años la Tierra tiene mucho que contarnos. Alex Nogués nos guiará por los misterios de la geología en este bellísimo y apasionante álbum ilustrado por Miren Asiain Lora. ¿Preparados para convertiros en geólogos?" --
"How did some oysters get to the top of a mountain? After millions of years the Earth has a lot to tell us. Alex Nogués will guide us through...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a biography of Earth, charting...
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