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Language: en
Pages: 448
Pages: 448
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-15 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his j
Language: en
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtapositio
Language: en
Pages: 518
Pages: 518
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-17 - Publisher: CRC Press
California has some of the most distinctive and unique geology in the United States. It is the only state with all three types of plate boundaries, an extraordi
Language: en
Pages: 209
Pages: 209
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
In Assembling Life, David Deamer addresses questions that are the cutting edge of research on the origin of life. For instance, how did non-living organic compo