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For your next road trip, replace your tattered, dog-eared copy of the old edition with this gorgeous new volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eIt may take your car a little longer to get from here to there on a California highway, but this book in the glove \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecompartment could make the time worthwhile.\" —David Perlman, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dave Alt and Donald W. Hyndman started the popular and long-lived Roadside Geology series in the 1970s, with the publication of Roadside Geology of Northern California in 1975. Dave Alt passed away in 2015, but his passion for teaching and his wry humor carry on in this revision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDonald W. Hyndman is dedicated to bringing geology to the general public, and cofounded the popular Roadside Geology series. 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With dazzling color maps, diagrams, and photographs, \u003ci\u003eRoadside Geology of Southern California\u003c\/i\u003e takes advantage of this newfound knowledge, combining the latest science with accessible stories about the rocks and landscapes visible from winding two-lane byways as well as from the region's vast network of highways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin Arthur Sylvester, an award-winning UC Santa Barbara geologist, and Elizabeth O'Black Gans, a geologist-illustrator, as they motor through mountains and deserts to explore the iconic features of the SoCal landscape, from boulder piles in Joshua Tree National Park and brilliant white dunes in the Channel Islands to tar seeps along the rugged coast and youthful cinder cones in the Mojave Desert. Whether you want to find precious gemstones, ponder the mysteries of the Salton Sea, or straddle the boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates, be sure to bring this book along as your tour guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors: \u003c\/strong\u003eArthur Gibbs Sylvester is a native southern Californian, whose eyes were opened to geology by high school biology class trips to the Colorado Plateau. With a focus on earth sciences, he earned a BA at Pomona College and an MA and PhD at UCLA. After graduate school, he joined a team of Shell Development Company research geologists to study the tectonic history of the Pacific margin of the United States. UC Santa Barbara lured him from Shell to teach courses in structural geology, field geology, and petrology. His academic research focused on various structural, seismic, and igneous rock problems in the Colorado and Mojave Deserts, the Transverse Ranges, and the Lake Tahoe region, as well as in Norway and southern Italy. He retired from active teaching in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElizabeth O’Black Gans (Libby to most) holds a BS in geology from UC Santa Barbara, where she was introduced to plenty of great southern California geology, as well as to the art of map making. Shortly after graduation, Libby started Gans Illustrations and began working on maps and scientific illustrations for publication, eventually becoming the first digital artist of the Dibblee Geological Foundation. While Libby’s main vocation of the last fifteen years has been raising a family, she continues to work on geologic maps and scientific illustrations. 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Dickas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRocks racing across a lakebed in Death Valley. Perfectly preserved 36-million-year-old tsetse flies in Colorado. Dinosaur trackways cemented into ancient floodplains in Connecticut. A gaping rift in the Idaho desert. What do these enigmatic geologic phenomena have in common? Besides initiating a profusion of head-scratching over the years, these sites of geologic wonder appear side by side, for the first time, in a single publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining in detail at least one amazing site for all fifty states, Albert Dickas clearly explains the geologic forces behind each one's origin in \u003ci\u003e101 Geologic Sites You've Gotta See\u003c\/i\u003e. Dickas discusses not only iconic landforms such as Devil's Tower in Wyoming but also locales that are often overlooked yet have fascinating stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsider the Reelfoot scarp in Tennessee: to the casual observer it is nothing more than a slight rise in a farm field. Yet this subtle slope represents a rift formed during an 1812 earthquake that forced the mighty Mississippi to flow upstream. Or Louisiana's unassuming, low-lying Avery Island, which actually caps an 8.5-mile-high column of salt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmply illustrated with full-color photographs and illustrations and written in clear yet playful prose, \u003ci\u003e101 Geologic Sites You've Gotta See\u003c\/i\u003e will entertain and inform amateur and seasoned geology buffs whether from an armchair or in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This will change your vacation plans.... Geology is a force so huge we don't see it. Yet evenly spread across the US (at least one in each state) are spots where planetary behavior is made visible, erupting in either grand spectacle or in tiny gems on the ground.... What bigger vacation can one imagine than inspecting 101 sites where you can see inside the Earth? ...Use this guide to find them and interpret their incredible hidden significance.\" \u003cspan\u003e—KK.org (Cool Tools) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003eBorn in Ohio, Albert B. Dickas earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Miami University (Oxford, OH). After serving in the US Navy, he obtained a PhD at Michigan State University, then worked in the petroleum industry for awhile before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where he taught for thirty-one years and founded an environmental research center. Today he lives on the crest of Brush Mountain in southwest Virginia, where he continues to engage in research and plan travel excursion in his quest for new and interesting geo-sites on all seven continents. He is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/392-nstfos?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=1aafe3d19\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e101 American Fossil Sites You’ve Gotta See\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as well as \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/387-grkva?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=0ce141318\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVirginia \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/387-grkva?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=0ce141318\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRocks! 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Baylor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalifornians live on the edge\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eof a tectonic plate, that is. In this geologically tenuous location, where a tsunami, earthquake, or volcanic eruption is just another hazard, the rocks and landforms are dynamic too. From erupting geysers and boiling mud pots to collapsing sea arches and crawling landslides, California is a land in motion. In fact, rocks on the west side of the San Andreas Fault have moved northward nearly 200 miles in the last 20 million years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith lively prose and beautiful photographs, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Rocks!\u003c\/i\u003e explores sixty-five geologic sites at parks and other publicly accessible places. 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