Roadside Geology of Southern California

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Sylvester is a native southern Californian, whose eyes were opened to geology by high school biology class trips to the Colorado Plateau. With a focus on earth sciences, he earned a BA at Pomona College and an MA and PhD at UCLA. After graduate school, he joined a team of Shell Development Company research geologists to study the tectonic history of the Pacific margin of the United States. UC Santa Barbara lured him from Shell to teach courses in structural geology, field geology, and petrology. His academic research focused on various structural, seismic, and igneous rock problems in the Colorado and Mojave Deserts, the Transverse Ranges, and the Lake Tahoe region, as well as in Norway and southern Italy. He retired from active teaching in 2003. Klappentext Join Arthur Sylvester, an award-winning UC Santa Barbara geologist, and Elizabeth O?Black Gans, a geologist-illustrator, as they motor through mountains and deserts to explore the iconic features of the SoCal landscape, from boulder piles in Joshua Tree National Park and brilliant white dunes in the Channel Islands to tar seeps along the rugged coast and youthful cinder cones in the Mojave Desert. Whether you want to find precious gemstones, ponder the mysteries of the Salton Sea, or straddle the boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates, be sure to bring this book along as your tour guide.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth black Gans, Elizabeth O'Black Gans, Elizabeth O'Black Gans, Arther Gibbs/ O&apos Sylvester, Arther Gibbs/ O'black Gans Sylvester, Arthur G. Sylvester, Arthur Gibbs Sylvester
• Publisher: Mountain press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2016
• EAN: 9780878426539
• ISBN: 978-0-87842-653-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Roadside Geology; Roadside Geology
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology