Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans : North America from Birth to Middle Age

Name: Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans : North America from Birth to Middle Age
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ISBN: 9781554700479

ISBN-10: 1554700477

ISBN-13: 9781554700479

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Wilson, Ron Clowes

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In the age of climate change and space stations, its easy to forget that the final frontier may well lie beneath our feet; that the Earths rocks is the stuff of which oil is made. And yet we understand so little of the very thing were trying to protect. Geologists John Wilson and Dr. Ron Clowes narrate the tale of earths coming-of-age in Ghost Mountains and Vanishing Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age . The vast jigsaw puzzle of geological plates that drifted together to form todays continents have not done with floating just yet. They also tell the story of Lithoprobe, created in Canada early 1980s, as part of an international program and seen as the best project in earth…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Key Porter Books
Publication date: 4/14/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 13
Introduction
A Vast Jigsaw Puzzle	p. 21
Interlude: The Beckoning Cross	p. 49
Floating Continents	p. 53
Interlude: Fire!	p. 79
Birth and Childhood: Four to two and a half billion years ago
Has It Always Been This Way?	p. 85
Interlude: African Hazards	p. 113
Tumultuous Teens: Two billion to one billion years ago
Gluing It All Together	p. 119
Interlude: Unorthodox Fishing	p. 147
Breaking Up?	p. 149
Interlude: Bear Attack	p. 169
Mid-Life Crisis: The Past Billion Years
False Starts	p. 173
Interlude: A Wilderness Tale	p. 195
Our Very Own Mountains	p. 197
Interlude: Fishing from a Greyhound	p. 223
Old Age: The Next Billion Years
A Quiet Old Age? Not Likely	p. 227
Acknowledgements	p. 237
Notes	p. 239
Index	p. 241
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