Windows into the Earth
The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions and large earthquakes, the hotspot helped lift the Yellowstone Plateau to more than 7,000 feet and pushed the northern Rockies to new heights, forming unusually large glaciers to carve the landscape. It also created the jewel of the U.S. national park system: Yellowstone. Meanwhile, forces stretching apart the western U.S. created the mountainous glor…
Mehr
CHF 29.65
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Siegel, Lee J.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-535560-4
- EAN: 9780195355604
- Produktnummer: 13940102
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 21'363 KB
- Abbildungen: 23 b/w & 49 color illus
Über den Autor
Robert B. Smith is a professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America. He has spent his career studying the Yellowstone-Teton region. Lee J. Siegel has written about science since 1976, most recently as science editor of The Salt Lake Tribune. He contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption by The Daily News of Longview, Washington, and in 1996, he won the Utah Seismic Safety Commissions first annual Outstanding Contribution to Earthquake Safety in Utah Award.
15 weitere Werke von Robert B. Smith:
Bewertungen
Anmelden