Research Catalog

Title

The restless Northwest : a geological story / Hill Williams.

Author

Williams, Hill, 1926-

Publication

Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

viii, pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm

Summary

• "The Restless Northwest provides a brief, easy-to-follow overview of the geologic processes that shaped the Northwest.".
• "One of the attractions of the Northwest is its varied terrain, from the volcanic Cascade Range to the flood-scoured scablands of eastern Washington and the eroded peaks of the northern Rockies. These vast differences are the result of a collision of the old and the new. The western edge of Idaho was once the edge of ancient North America; as eons passed, a jumble of islands, mini-continents, and sediment piled up against the old continental edge, gradually extending it west to the present coastline.".
• "Hill Williams uses an informal conversational style to explain complex processes to a general readership. He enlivens the story of long-ago geologic events with fascinating asides on everything from enormous undersea tube worms to the Willamette meteorite, the largest ever found in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Geology > Northwest, Pacific

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Pacific Northwest Geological Timeline -- Pt. I. The Ancient Northwest: A Puzzle Assembled from Around the World. 1. A Mirror Image Offshore. 2. Beneath a Mile of Water. 3. A Continental Split. 4. Head Bone Connected to the Toe Bone. 5. Wandering Minicontinents. 6. Land on the Move: Baja to British Columbia -- Pt. II. The Modern Northwest: The Landscape as We Know It and How It Got That Way. 7. Strike-Slip Faults and Leaky Fractures. 8. Separating East from West. 9. A Deluge of Lava. 10. The Ice Age Arrives. 11. Glacial Lake Missoula Floods. 12. Not If, But When. Pacific Northwest Geological Almanac -- Glossary of Geological Terms.

ISBN

0874222508 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002002974

OCLC

• ocm49285663
• SCSB-4267138

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries