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ID: 241412
Title: Assembling California
Author: John McPhee
Narrator: Nelson Runger
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-11
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature
Summary:
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersectin the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentiethand always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
A delicious field manual on the creation of the Golden State going back a few hundred million years.Peter Stack, The San Francisco Chronicle
Contact: [email protected]
ID: 241412
Title: Assembling California
Author: John McPhee
Narrator: Nelson Runger
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-11
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature
Summary:
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersectin the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentiethand always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
A delicious field manual on the creation of the Golden State going back a few hundred million years.Peter Stack, The San Francisco Chronicle
Contact: [email protected]
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