Author: Philip B. KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Geology of the Southern Guadalupe Mountains, Texas
Author: Philip B. KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Geologic Guide to the Western Escarpment, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas
Author: Guadalupe Mountains Revisited, Texas and New Mexico
Author: West Texas Geological Society. Field SeminarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
How the Mountains Grew
Author: John DvorakPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643135759
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise. But what were those forces? And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others? When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift. As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us. But tectonics cannot—and do not—explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape. What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses. A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, John Dvorak's How the Mountains Grew will fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.
Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy
Author: Robert G. LoucksPublisher: AAPG
ISBN: 0891813365
Category : Carbonate rocks
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Hardcover plus Foldouts
South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America
Author: O.T. HaywardPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813754046
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Classic Permian Geology of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico
Author: Evaporites Through Space and Time
Author: B. Charlotte SchreiberPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392328
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book is an exploration of varying approaches to the study of the deposition, diagenesis and stratigraphy of evaporites. The volume includes papers from chemical modellers, who work on the basis of geochemical representations of the formative water bodies, and from basin-wide depositional-stratigraphical modellers, who propose depositional scenarios that are fitted to individual basinal pictures.Until now there have been only a few studies of evaporite formation that explain the characteristic features we observe in the real rock record. This volume is a collection of relevant papers in which these features are integrated in a realistic manner, based on our new understanding of saline water bodies, to the diverse tectonic, chemical and depositional constraints of their individual basins. In additional there are several review articles that offer oversight and extensive referencing of basins worthy of further study.This book is a valuable resource for sedimentologists and stratigraphers looking for an up-to-date reference on evaporite deposits.
Sequence Stratigraphy on the Northwest European Margin
Author: R.J. SteelPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080541100
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Sequence Stratigraphy, presently one of the most rapidly growing areas in geology, is concerned with the documentation and prediction of how sandstones (potential hydrocarbon reservoirs) and shales (potential source rocks) are distributed in time and space within sedimentary basins. The book takes a critical look at some of the sequence stratigraphy concepts, and provides an account of how these have been applied recently in NW Europe (North Sea, mid Norway and E. Greenland, Barents Sea and Svalbard), mainly in connection with the exploration for oil and gas.There is currently no similar book available.