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Assembling California
Assembling California
Author: John McPhee
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374106454
ISBN-10: 0374106452
Publication Date: 2/1/1993
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Great book, of course, it covers my old stomping grounds, which is North-Central California. He does meander to other places when discussing plate tectonics. He gets a little metaphysical towards the end, saying things like "a piece of Norway was attached to Nova Scotia", but it is a very readable book.
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