The Colorado Plateau : a geologic history /
"This new edition of Donald L. Baars's classic The Colorado Plateau incorporates new text, maps, photographs, figures, tables and bibliography to provide the most up-to-date geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Four Corners of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Baars...
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
c2000.
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| Edition: | Rev. and updated |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the revised edition
- pt. one
- The Early history
- The Grand Canyon: an open book
- Journey into the geologic dark ages: the Grand Canyon by boat
- The Plot thickens: Paleozoic rocks of the canyonlands
- Bits and pieces of Paleozoic rocks
- The American alps: the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
- pt. two
- Post-Paleozoic landscapes
- Forests and uranium: Triassic time
- Jurassic dunes and deserts
- The Last of the great inland seas: the Cretaceous period
- Orogeny molds the land: Tertiary time
- Erosion sculpts the land: Pleistocene time
- pt. three
- Enter man
- Indians and explorers
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.