Adventures through deep time the central Mississippi River Valley and its earthquakes

Geologic history of the Central Mississippi River Valley area, in a nutshell -- Precambrian rocks' foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley -- Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States -- Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley -- Appalachian...

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1. Verfasser: VanArsdale, R. B. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: VanArsdale, Roy B. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Boulder, Colo Geological Society of America c2009
Schriftenreihe:Special paper / Geological Society of America 455
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Zusammenfassung:Geologic history of the Central Mississippi River Valley area, in a nutshell -- Precambrian rocks' foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley -- Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States -- Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley -- Appalachian-Ouachita mountains and their foreland basins -- Pangaea rips apart the formation of the Gulf of Mexico -- Cretaceous-tertiary formation of the Mississippi embayment and Mississippi River -- Sediments of the Mississippi embayment -- The Central Mississippi River Valley and its great earthquakes of 1811-1812 -- What's next?
Beschreibung:Accompanying compact disc includes video animations supplementing chapters 3, 7, 8, and 9 of the printed volume, in .mpeg, .avi, and Adobe Acrobat PDF files
Beschreibung:VII, 107 S.
Ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
28 cm
1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
ISBN:0813724554
0-8137-2455-4
9780813724553
978-0-8137-2455-3