Ohio Rocks: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Buckeye State

Albert B Dickas

ISBN 10: 0878426353 / ISBN 13: 9780878426355

Published by Geological Society of America January 2015, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ohio Rocks: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Buckeye State
• Publisher: Geological Society of America January 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878426353
• ISBN 13: 9780878426355
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Local::Ohio

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Synopsis

Ohio was born billions of years ago, during a time when ancient minicontinents crystallized and then merged into larger continents. Its youth was marked by the coming and going of oceans and the advent of life from ocean to land. The Buckeye State matured when ice sheets scoured its landscape. This storyline is writ large and small in Ohio's rocks, from its flat till plains to the rumpled and hollowed landscape of the Appalachian Plateau.

In Ohio Rocks!, skilled writer and geologist Albert Dickas takes you to some of the state's most interesting geologic chapters. At Blackhand Gorge the sandy deposits of an ancient sea were cut and sculpted by glacial meltwater. In Scioto County you can trace the margins of a ghost river that flowed before the ice ages. And you can visit the historic Buckeye Furnace, which produced enough pig iron to make Ohio an industrial giant in the nineteenth century.

Color photos, maps, and figures compliment the text and further elucidate the geology within the rocks. Ohio Rocks! is the third book in the state-by-state Geology Rocks! series, which introduces readers to some of the most compelling and accessible geologic sites in each state.

About the Author

Born in Ohio, Albert Binkley Dickas earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Miami University (Oxford, OH). After serving in the US Navy, he earned a PhD at Michigan State University and then worked in the petroleum industry. He then joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where he taught for thirty-one years. Today he lives on the crest of Brush Mountain in southwest Virginia. He is the author of 101 American Fossil Sites You’ve Gotta See and its companion volume 101 American Geo-Sites You’ve Gotta See, as well as Virginia Rocks! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Old Dominion, all published by GSA.