Roadside Geology of Florida
Finally a geology book for the most recent addition to the the North American continent: Florida!
Walt Disney World, Apollo missions to the moon, orange juice—these are things the average person readily associates with Florida, but geology .. . ? Not so much. Roadside Geology of Florida will change that.
You'll learn about limestone caverns, boiling spring heads, building swallowing sinkholes, coastal sand dunes far from any coast, predatory flightless birds, and rock strata containing the remains of some of the strangest animals that ever walked the Earth and much more.
The Roadside Geology series strikes a new direction with this lasciviously illustrated book. Beautiful color photos and illustrations emphasis the clearly written explanations and concise descriptions. Roadside Geology of Florida devides the state into five regions then follows Florida's roads to its geological wonders.
Covers both geology and fossils.
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An all new, encompassing book about geodes!
Welcome to nature's
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Learn more about the geological history of the rocks around you! This colorful, educational map presents state/regional surface rock outcrop information?age, depositional environment, rock type, and names of formations. Includes major highways, towns, and landmarks. Printed on a single sheet and folded to glove compartment size, has a stratigraphic column by state, mileage charts. Scale: 1 inch=30 miles. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
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