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Author Smith, Robert Baer, 1938-

Title Windows into the earth : the geologic story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks / Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Land of Scenery and Violence; 2 In the Wake of the Yellowstone Hotspot; 3 Cataclysm!: The Hotspot Reaches Yellowstone; 4 How Yellowstone Works; 5 The Broken Earth: Why the Tetons Are Grand; 6 Ice over Fire: Glaciers Carve the Landscape; 7 Future Disasters; 8 Grand Teton Tour; 9 Yellowstone Tour; Internet Sites; References; Index.
Summary Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions and large earthquakes, the hotspot helped lift the Yellowstone Plateau to more than 7,000 feet and pushed the northern Rockies to new heights, forming unusually large glaciers to carve the landscape. It also created the jewel of the U.S. national park system: Yellowstone. Meanwhile, forces stretching a.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Geology -- Yellowstone National Park.
Geology.
Geology -- Wyoming -- Grand Teton National Park.
Wyoming -- Grand Teton National Park.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Siegel, Lee J.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Robert Baer, 1938- Windows into the earth. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195105966 9780195105964 (DLC) 99022287 (OCoLC)40857135
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