Gem Trails of Northern California

Gem Trails of Northern California
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Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000043423224
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Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Gem Trails of Northern California by : James R. Mitchell

This most complete guide to Northern California features sites from the Oregon border south to San Luis Obispo. Beautiful color photographs showcase the specimens that can be found at the sites described. Detailed text and maps make locating collecting areas easy.

Rocks and Minerals of the Pacific Coast

Rocks and Minerals of the Pacific Coast
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Publisher : Adventure Quick Guides
Total Pages : 22
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ISBN-10 : 1591937752
ISBN-13 : 9781591937753
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Rocks and Minerals of the Pacific Coast by : Dan R. Lynch

Focusing on rocks and minerals of California, Oregon, and Washington's Pacific Coast, this tabbed booklet features detailed photographs, organized by rocks/minerals and then by general appearance, to help readers quickly and easily identify the rocks and minerals they find.

Rockhounding Northern California

Rockhounding Northern California
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781493037032
ISBN-13 : 149303703X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Rockhounding Northern California by : Montana Hodges

Explore the mineral-rich region of Northern California with Rockhounding Northern California and unearth the state’s best rockhounding sites, ranging from popular and commercial sites to numerous lesser-known areas. Featuring an overview of the state’s geologic history as well as a site-by-site guide to the best rockhounding locations, Rockhounding Northern California is the ideal resource for rockhounds of all ages and experience levels.

Assembling California

Assembling California
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780374706029
ISBN-13 : 0374706026
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Assembling California by : 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 Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.

California Rocks!

California Rocks!
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Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing Company
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0878425659
ISBN-13 : 9780878425655
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis California Rocks! by : Katherine J. Baylor

Californians live on the edge . . . of 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. With lively prose and beautiful photographs, California Rocks! explores sixty-five geologic sites at parks and other publicly accessible places. Learn why so many saber-toothed cats were preserved in La Brea Tar Pits, how hollow tubes formed in the flowing lava of Lava Beds National Monument, and what forms the big waves at Mavericks surf break.

Rockhounding California

Rockhounding California
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780762786237
ISBN-13 : 076278623X
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Rockhounding California by : Gail A. Butler

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals .

Gem Trails of Southern California

Gem Trails of Southern California
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Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000043420865
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Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Gem Trails of Southern California by : James R. Mitchell

Detailed maps and descriptive text lead the rock-hound to over 70 of the best sites from San Luis Obispo to the Mexican border.