Canada Rocks: The Geologic Journey
Language: English
Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, 2007
- First Edition
- Softcover
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How the Canadian landmass evolved - piece by piece - from long-lost continent some four billion years ago into one of the most spectacular and geologically significant areas on Earth. This book covers every region of Canada from British Columbia through the prairies to the Canadian Shield and remote Artic, Newfoundland and the ancient Maritimes. First book to present the entire sweep of Canadian geology to the general reader. It is profusely illustrated throughout with original full-color photographs, charts, maps and sketches. It also includes contemporary and classic Canadian art the captures the country's extraordinary geological features and terrain.
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- Title
- Canada Rocks: The Geologic Journey
- Author
- Eyles, Nick; Miall, Andrew D.
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1550418602
- ISBN 13
- 9781550418606
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 7 pounds
For anyone curious about the geological history of our country, Canada Rocks is a marvelous portrait of what the authors describe as the incredible 4 billion year 'construction project' that gave shape to the continents, mountains, and oceans of planet Earth, and created the world's second largest country - Canada.
Profusely illustrated throughout with full colour and black and white photographs, charts, maps, graphs and sketches, the book explores the country from north to south, and from east to west, exploring that incredible history through modern day sites and land shapes created in our distant past.
Read about:
- Rocks in Point Pleasant Park in Halifax were once part of Morocco, left behind when the Atlantic Ocean came into being.
- Canada's Arctic regions were formerly part of what today is Siberia. Greenland was once a part of Labrador.
- Fossils in a road cut in Cache Creek, British Columbia once lived in a sea that covered China.
- The violent collisions of continents and other land masses, the growth and decay of enormous mountain ranges, the impact of meteorites, and the comings and goings of vast ice sheets are explored in fascinating detail, as is the creation of our rocky resources from coal to diamonds.
An essential reference for students and anyone fascinated with the geological forces that created our country, the book includes a great many sites that can be visited for close-up study, making it an invaluable field guide for exploring our history and the world around us.
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