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Basin and range / John McPhee.
Author
McPhee, John, 1931-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1981]
©1981
Description
215 p. ; 22 cm.
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Geology
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West (U.S.)
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Summary note
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 of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terrain becomes the setting for a lyrical evocation of the science of geology, with important digressions into the plate-tectonics revolution and the history of the geologic time scale.
Notes
Princeton copy 1 c.1 bound in cloth, c.2 in paper.
Princeton copy 2 c.1 bound in cloth, c.2 in paper.
Princeton copy 1 Ex copy 1 and 2 presented by the author, Class of 1953, to Princeton University.
Princeton copy 2 Ex copy 1 and 2 presented by the author, Class of 1953, to Princeton University.
ISBN
0374109141
9780374109141
0374516901
9780374516901
LCCN
80028679
OCLC
7173053
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