Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains

by Keith Heyer Meldahl

Book Overview

"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains." In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million years of deep time to explore America's most spectacular and scientifically intriguing landscapes. He places us on the outcrops, rock hammer in hand, to examine the evidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259351
• ISBN13: 9780520259355
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Loved it

This was a great book, incorporating history and science along a certain track of the western United States. The geology is good, which is hard to find in non-textbooky material.