Islands in Deep Time: Ancient Landscapes Lost and Found

by Markes E. Johnson

Hilltops surrounded by farmland in southern Wisconsin turn out to be the eroded remnants of an ancient archipelago. An island in the Yellow Sea where Korean tourists flock is the peak of a flooded mountain rising from a drowned continental shelf. From a mountaintop shrine to Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, the silhouette of a Silurian seascape can be spotted. On the shores of Hudson Bay, where polar bears patrol the Arctic tundra, a close look...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231212186
• ISBN13: 9780231212182
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"