Full title: Roadside Geology of Alabama
Authors: Mark Steltenpohl and Laura Steltenpohl
Illustrator: Chelsea M. Feeney
The authors intertwine the geology with cultural stories, legends, and history to paint an enjoyable picture of how Alabama and its rocks came to be. For example, Tannehill Ironworks and iron mines in Red Mountain Park and Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve document Birmingham's industrial birth as the source of iron for the Confederacy. Buildings at Cheaha State Park in the Talladega Mountains were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps using blocks of locally quarried Cheaha Quartzite. Native Americans chiseled stone axes out of the Hillabee greenstone, one of Alabama's ancient volcanic rocks. With this book as your guide, find caverns in fossil-rich limestone, shark teeth in the shifting sands of the Gulf Coast, and rocky outcrops in Muscle Shoals along the banks of the Tennessee River, known to Native Americans as the "singing river."
Published: 4/15/2023
ISBN Number: 9780878427147
Pages: 360
Dimensions: 6 × 9
Format: Paperback
Product Code: 217-RDGAL
Product Category: Roadside Geology