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Informationen zum Autor William J. Fritz is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York. He is also a professor of geology at the College of Staten Island and emeriti professor of geology at Georgia State University, where he was the director of summer geology field camp taught in Dillon, Montana, and Yellowstone for many years. Klappentext With more than 10!000 geysers! hot springs! fumaroles! and mud pots! as well as cubic mile upon cubic mile of once-incendiary rhyolite! the landscape of Yellowstone Country vividly displays its fiery past and present. The region contains 1/5 of the world's geysers! including the most famous of them all! and is the setting of some of Earth's most destructive volcanic eruptions. The 19 road guides in Roadside Geology of Yellowstone Country fully explore this volcanic pedigreewhile also delivering you to sites that have recorded the region's broadand deep geologic story! which includes exquisitely preserved! 50-million-year-old petrified trees buried in conglomerate; mountain-sized blocks of rock that slid more than 50 miles in a massive debris avalanche; the glacially carved craggy peaks and U-shaped valleys of the Beartooth Mountains and Absaroka Range; and the GrandCanyon of the Yellowstone! the excavation of which isstill a mystery.
