Adventures through deep time the central Mississippi River Valley and its earthquakes /
| Main Author: | VanArsdale, R. B. |
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| Format: | Software |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boulder, Colo. :
Geological Society of America,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
vii, 107 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Series: |
Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
455. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references. Geologic history of the Central Mississippi River Valley area in a nutshell -- Precambrian rocks : foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley -- Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States -- Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley -- Appalachian-Ouachita mountains and their foreland basins -- Pangea rips apart : the formation of the Gulf of Mexico -- Cretaceous-tertiary formation of the Mississippi embayment and Mississippi River -- Sediments of the Mississippi embayment -- The central Mississippi River Valley and its great earthquakes of 1811-1812 -- What's next? Accompanying compact disc includes video animations supplementing chapters 3, 7, 8, and 9 of the printed volume, in .mpeg, .avi, and Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Geologic history of the Central Mississippi River Valley area in a nutshell -- Precambrian rocks : foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley -- Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States -- Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley -- Appalachian-Ouachita mountains and their foreland basins -- Pangea rips apart : the formation of the Gulf of Mexico -- Cretaceous-tertiary formation of the Mississippi embayment and Mississippi River -- Sediments of the Mississippi embayment -- Central Mississippi River Valley and its great earthquakes of 1811-1812 -- What's next? |
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| Physical Description: |
vii, 107 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780813724553 0813724554 |