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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
Geology has long been a puzzling science. The theory of plate techtonics advanced geographical study immensely but plate techtonics can't explain the Black Hills or the walls of chalk in the fertile Kansas basin. What else has been and is creating the landscape of North America?
Author
Publisher
Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
This armchair guide to the making of the geologic record shows how to understand messages written in stone. To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history--but to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright...
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to geology that uses full-color photographs and easy-to-read text to describe how rocks are formed, the main components of rocks, rock layers, and the rock cycle; and includes instructions for a related activity.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Underland, Macfarlane delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time"--The dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present--he moves from the birth of the universe...
Publisher
DK Children
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[First edition?]
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating guided tour around the most unbelievable, unusual, and incredible places on Earth--perfect for readers aged 7+ who have big imaginations and a thirst for adventure. When most people think of Earth's most amazing places, they think of Mount Everest or the Eiffel Tower. But there's so much more that our planet has to offer. This book will transport you to the far-flung reaches of the globe to discover places so incredible you'll barely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds...
Author
Publisher
Peter Bedrick
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book presents a geological, biological, and social history of the earth by focusing on the same four locales - New York, southwestern France, the Nile Valley, and northern China - through thirteen time periods covering more than 550 million years.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Channel
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"How To Survive the End of the World examines terrifying and scientifically plausible doomsday scenarios by exploring distinct, world-threatening events and the methods by which humanity would fight to survive against grim odds. Episodes include Zombie Earth, Hell on Earth, Frozen Earth, Flooded Earth, Monster Storm, and one other."-Provided by Amazon editorial reviews.
15) Be a geologist
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the Grand Canyon to volcanos to diamonds and fossils, geology--the study of rocks--shows us where we've been and where we're going. With tons of humor and scores of fascinating facts, [the author] introduces younger readers to geology and why rocks matter . . . enough to write a whole book about them." -- Adapted from publisher.
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An encyclopedic reference shares engaging information about the workings of the world, pairing detailed illustrations and photo collages with succinct text that explains related phenomena, processes and systems that affect our world and way of life. By the author of The Kingfisher Facts and Records Book of Space.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This title tools, methods, discoveries, and careers in the Geology field. Accompanying the main text are activities from agate coasters to an underwater eruption. These crafts encourage readers to engage with what they learned, solidifying their new knowledge. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
19) Liferaft
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the...
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