How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America

Description

Author: Dvorak, John

Publisher: Pegasus Books

Pub Date: 2021 (First edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  Some highlighting, red markings towards the last few pages of the text.  One small bump on bottom text block.  Light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Some slight wear to upper edges, front and rear.  Light corner wear.

Notes: “The theory of plate tectonics, as it was originally envisioned, could also not explain why thick layers of chalk that had formed at the bottom of an ancient sea now stand as high walls in western Kansas.  Or why the western end of Lake Superior follows an arc, and why the western part of Lake Superior is the deepest part of the Great Lakes.  Why is there a diamond mine in Arkansas?  How was it that a giant sea wave once rolled across Nebraska?  Why are Oregon and Washington rotating slowly clockwise?  Why are the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California or the Adirondacks in New York rising?  What is the reason that the world’s largest reserves of oil and of coal are in North America?  And why do major earthquakes occur far from the West Coast beneath Missouri and South Carolina, and why are earthquakes scattered beneath New England?”  (From the Prologue).  I’ll take Geologic Questions for a thousand, Alex.