UID:
almafu_9961152755902883
Format:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781647690502
Content:
"Applying the fundamental principles of geology to the rocks of the Great Basin, we now have indisputable evidence that the region, however lofty and dry it may appear today, lay almost continuously beneath the waters of vanished oceans for more than 400 million years. The bed of this ancient ocean, where enormous amounts of mud, muck, and sand accumulated during the immense period of inundation, is the subject of this book: it is the Sagebrush Seafloor"--
Note:
Vanished oceans of the Great Basin Desert -- The ocean arrives -- The great Cambrian explosion -- The Ordovician overhaul -- The dolomite interval : a carbonate conundrum -- The Devonian-Mississippian interval : tectonic tumult and cosmic calamities -- The Antler overlap sequence -- The last gasp of the Great Basin seafloor : the oceans of the West in the age of reptiles.
Additional Edition:
Print version: DeCourten, Frank The Great Basin Seafloor Redwood City : University of Utah Press,c2022 ISBN 9781647690496
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
