NEW YORK NY: FARRAR, STRAUS, AND GIROUX. FINE IN FINE D.J.. PUB 1993. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. VOLUME FOUR OF A CONTINENTAL TETRALOGY-"ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD" . BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. .

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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 the 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. (Goodreads)

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Bookseller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: COLLECTI014141I
Title: ASSEMBLING CALIFORNIA
Author: MCPHEE, JOHN
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - FINE IN FINE D.J.
Edition: FIRST EDITION
ISBN 10: 0374106452
ISBN 13: 9780374106454
Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS, AND GIROUX
Place of Publication: NEW YORK NY
Date Published: PUB 1993
Keywords: VOLUME FOUR OF A CONTINENTAL TETRALOGY-"ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD", GEOLOGY, CALIFORNIA, EARTHQUAKES, EARTH SCIENCE

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