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In an age of space exploration and modern technology, it’s easy to forget about the many riches and wonders that exist right under our own feet: the amazing and continuously evolving Earth. And yet we understand little of the very thing we’re trying to protect. In Ghost Mountains and Vanishing Oceans, geologists John Wilson and Dr. Ron Clowes narrate the heady tale of Earth’s coming of age. They explain that the vast jigsaw puzzle of geological plates that drifted together to form today’s continents continue to move, and what that means for the future. They also tell the story of the Lithoprobe, created in the early 1980s to help determine how the northern North American continent has formed over geological time from 4,000 million years ago to the present. Highlighted with informative sidebars and photographs, this lively book helps readers gain a better appreciation of the earth sciences and the terra firma that isn’t so firm after all.
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JOHN WILSON, an ex-geologist and frustrated historian, is the award-winning author of twelve historical fictions, most recently Four Steps to Death, Flames of The Tiger, And in the Morning, and Where Soldiers Lie. He has also authored five non-fiction books for young adults, including a biography of John Rae (Discovering the Arctic) and a book about the geology of Canada (Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents), a novel for adults (North with Franklin), over thirty poems, and hundreds of freelance articles. He lives and writes in Lantzville on Vancouver Island.
RON CLOWES is an emeritus professor in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He was director of Lithoprobe, Canada’s national geoscience research project that ran from 1984 to 2005. Dr. Clowes has won many awards including the Logan Medal from the Geological Association of Canada and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, and he is a Member of the Order of Canada. He and his wife travel widely and live in New Westminster, British Columbia.
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- PublisherKey Porter Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1554700477
- ISBN 13 9781554700479
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages248
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