When the Land Turned Green: The Maine Discovery of the First Land Plants

by Sheila Bennett and Dean Bennett

Book Overview

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley. He is taking his first steps to map the geology of 300 square miles of Baxter State Park. He soon discovers a series of unusually shaped rock outcrops--part of an unknown geologic formation, hundreds of millions of years old, still mystifying today because of its relative lack of change despite nearby volcanic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684750326
• ISBN13: 9781684750320
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"