{"title":"Montana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMontana is where it all started for GSA's public science books. The Treasure State's dramatic scenery reflects mountain building, volcanism, and erosion. Discover the geologic forces behind the Rockies, plains, and fossil-rich basins of the state. And coming soon (June 2026), is \u003cem\u003eMontana Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites Under the Big Sky\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"392-nstfos","title":"101 American Fossil Sites You've Gotta See","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003eAlbert B. Dickas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining in detail at least one amazing fossil site in every state, Albert Dickas clearly explains the critters preserved in the rocks, from sharks and rhinoceroses to trilobites and horn corals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt some sites, you can sift through the shale in search of fossils to keep; at other sites, you can watch professionals excavate museum-quality specimens. The entertaining introduction discusses the history of paleontology, including nineteenth-century arguments about the age of Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDickas also provides a short history of life on Earth, from microbes in 3-billion-year-old chert to massive mammals of the Pleistocene ice ages. Contained within the last 541 million years are the Cambrian explosion, the age of crinoids, and five mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis compendium of 101 fossil sites is the companion volume to the hugely popular \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/370-nstusgeo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=fe9056524\u0026amp;_ss=r\" title=\"link to 101 american geo-sites\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e101 American Geo-Sites You've Gotta See\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, published in 2012. Amply illustrated with photographs and written in a clear yet playful prose, \u003cem\u003e101 American Fossil Sites You've Gotta See\u003c\/em\u003e will entertain and inform amateur and seasoned fossil buffs, whether from an armchair or in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a useful collection of information presented in a concise, well-illustrated form.\" \u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eCallan Bentley, Mountain Beltway, AGU Blogosphere\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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/370-nstusgeo?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=1aafe3d19\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e101 American Geo-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! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Old Dominion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/376-grkoh?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=269c7dec9\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOhio Rocks!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePub Date: \u003c\/strong\u003e3\/10\/2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780878426812\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages: \u003c\/strong\u003e254\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e8.375 x 9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Code: \u003c\/strong\u003e392-NSTFOS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Category: \u003c\/strong\u003eGeneral Interest\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46519816454373,"sku":"392-nstfos","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/4070\/8325\/files\/392-NSTFOS_309ae4dd-c934-4c1a-bf71-0cb23e74b1a9.png?v=1748360109"},{"product_id":"298-gufyc","title":"Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003eMarc S. Hendrix\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough it's also known for for wolves, bison, and stunning scenery, Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's first national park in 1872 largely because of its geological wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGeology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country\u003c\/i\u003e, author and geologist Marc S. Hendrix takes you to over twenty sites in the park and surrounding region that illustrate the deep-time story of Yellowstone Country, from its early existence as a seafloor hundreds of millions of years ago to an earthquake swarm in 2008 that caused some folks to wonder if the Yellowstone Volcano was going to blow its top again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBesides covering icons such as Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, \u003ci\u003eGeology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country\u003c\/i\u003e visits sites that are less well known but just as mind blowing, including outcrops of rock deposited by superfast incendiary flows of hot ash; the glacially sculpted grandeur of the Beartooth and Absaroka mountains witnessed along the Beartooth Highway; and the deadly Madison landslide that killed twenty-eight people in 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith prose tooled for the lay reader and a multitude of colorful photos and illustrations from Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, \u003ci\u003eGeology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country\u003c\/i\u003e will help you read the landscape the way a geologist does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Geology Underfoot series encourages you to get out of your car for an up-close look at rocks and landforms. These books inform and enlighten, no matter how much\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eor how little\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003egeology you already know. What's more, they're simply good reading, on-site or at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eGeology Underfoot \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ein Yellowstone Country\u003c\/em\u003e is well organized, well written, and nicely illustrated, with numerous color photos that show geologic featured keyed to stops.\" \u003cspan\u003e—Kevin R. Evans, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning, Missouri State University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003eGrowing up in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Marc S. Hendrix developed an early love of geology while working as a field assistant for his father, Sherman, a biology professor at Gettysburg College. Marc received a bachelor’s degree in geology from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, a master’s degree in geology and geophysics from the University of Wisconsin, and a PhD in applied earth sciences from Stanford University. He joined the faculty at the University of Montana in 1994, where he has developed a field-based research program focused on the geology of the northern Rocky Mountains, including Yellowstone Country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/collections\/sale-books-public-science-books-at-30-off\" title=\"link to public science bargain books\"\u003eCheck to see if there is a bargain edition of this book available\u003c\/a\u003e. Our bargain stock changes regularly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished: \u003c\/strong\u003e5\/1\/2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e9780878425761\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages: \u003c\/strong\u003e312\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e6 x 9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Code: \u003c\/strong\u003e298-GUFYC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Category: \u003c\/strong\u003eGeology Underfoot\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46522048610533,"sku":"298-gufyc","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/4070\/8325\/files\/298-GUFYC.png?v=1748360101"},{"product_id":"208-rdgmt2","title":"Roadside Geology of Montana, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthors: \u003c\/strong\u003eDonald W. Hyndman and Robert C. Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrator: \u003c\/strong\u003eChelsea M. Feeney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Roadside Geology series originated in 1972 with \u003ci\u003eRoadside Geology of the Northern Rockies\u003c\/i\u003e. Fourteen years later, the Big Sky portion of that book was updated to become \u003ci\u003eRoadside Geology of Montana\u003c\/i\u003e, a bright-yellow field guide that soon graced bookshelves across the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow nearly nearly 50 years after the first book, comes along a completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor example, Montana lies at the northern edge of the Yellowstone caldera, the world's largest and most violent volcano. 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He is the coauthor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/240-rdgyell2?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=d14a9442e\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoadside Geology of Yellowstone Country\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChelsea M. Feeney was raised at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia and received a BS in geosciences from Virginia Tech. Her geologic pursuits led her to the Northwest where she earned her MS in geology from the University of Montana and published her first map through the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology.  She has been producing geologic maps and figures for Mountain Press Publishing Company and GSA since 2009 and owns her own custom cartography business (www.cmcfeeney.com). 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Fritz and Robert C. Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrator: \u003c\/strong\u003eChelsea M. Feeney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith more than 10,000 geysers, hot springs, fumaroles, and mud pots, as well as cubic mile upon cubic mile of once-incendiary rhyolite, the landscape of Yellowstone Country vividly displays its fiery past and present. The region within Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho contains 1\/5 of the world's geysers, including the most famous of them all, and is the setting of some of Earth's most destructive volcanic eruptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 19 road guides in \u003ci\u003eRoadside Geology of Yellowstone Country\u003c\/i\u003e fully explore this volcanic pedigree while also delivering you to sites that have recorded the region's broad and deep geologic story, which includes exquisitely preserved, 50-million-year-old petrified trees buried in conglomerate; mountain-sized blocks of rock that slid more than 50 miles in a massive debris avalanche; the glacially carved craggy peaks and U-shaped valleys of the Beartooth Mountains and Absaroka Range; and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the excavation of which is still a mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis completely revised second edition reexamines the region using the latest scientific thinking and now includes stunning full-color photos, maps, and diagrams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors: \u003c\/strong\u003eWilliam J. Fritz is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York. He is also a professor of geology at the College of Staten Island and emeriti professor of geology at Georgia State University, where he was the director of summer geology field camp taught in Dillon, Montana, and Yellowstone for many years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert C. Thomas is a professor of geology in the heart of Yellowstone Country at The University of Montana Western in Dillon, Montana. He has co-led numerous GeoVentures fieldtrips in Yellowstone for the Geological Society of America; spent over twenty-five years teaching geology field courses and camps, including many years with the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAssociation geology field camp; and produced numerous publications, geological road signs, and public presentations about Yellowstone Country. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious U.S. Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year Award from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is the coauthor of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/products\/208-rdgmt2?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=cb91a9882\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eRoadside Geology of Montana\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChelsea M. Feeney was raised at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia and received a BS in geosciences from Virginia Tech. Her geologic pursuits led her to the Northwest where she earned her MS in geology from the University of Montana and published her first map through the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology.  She has been producing geologic maps and figures for Mountain Press Publishing Company and GSA since 2009 and owns her own custom cartography business (www.cmcfeeney.com). Chelsea lives in Moscow, Idaho, with her husband Dennis, a fellow geologist, and their two children.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.geosociety.org\/collections\/sale-books-public-science-books-at-30-off\" title=\"link to public science bargain books\"\u003eCheck to see if there is a bargain edition of this book available\u003c\/a\u003e. 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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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Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, it dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastrophic proportions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods\u003c\/i\u003e tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that drained suddenly\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003enot just once but repeatedly\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eand reshaped the landscape of the Northwest. 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