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| | 2. |  | Assembling California
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $4.69
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Although California is in the title of this book, it studies plate tectonics and volcanism around the world. Although much of it does deal with California, the reader is taken to the eastern Mediterranean, Alaska and many other places where plates intersect and the moving earth shows its power.more info
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| | 3. |  | Annals of the Former World
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $10.68
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Any book 30 years in the making will, pretty much by necessity, only happen once in a writer's career. But more importantly, everything the masterful McPhee has learned about writing -- not to mention geology and its practitioners -- finds its way in here. And anything this good is likely to occur... more info
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| | 4. |  | Basin and Range
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $2.53
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The idea of examining American geology a slice at a time by following I-80 from east to west was brilliant.
In this particular volume, McPhee deals with the Great Basin portion of that travelogue geology. There's a lot more than meets the eye -- especially the untrained eye not native to the... more info
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| | 5. |  | Rising From The Plains
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $3.42
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This is McPhee's third book in his series on North American geology, and it focuses on the geologic history of the Rocky Mountains, particularly the ranges of Wyoming. In his typical conversational style, he explains a number of geologic concepts, including plate tectonics, hot spots, mountain... more info
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