Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country
Although it’s also known for for wolves, bison, and stunning scenery,
Yellowstone National Park was established as the world’s first national
park in 1872 largely because of its geological wonders. In Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country,
author and geologist Marc Hendrix takes you to over twenty sites in the
park and surrounding region that illustrate the deep-time story of
Yellowstone Country, from its early existence as a seafloor hundreds of
millions of years ago to an earthquake swarm in 2008 that caused some
folks to wonder if the Yellowstone Volcano was going to blow its
top—again. Besides covering icons such as Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot
Springs, Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country visits sites
that are less well known but just as mind blowing, including outcrops of
rock deposited by superfast incendiary flows of hot ash; the glacially
sculpted grandeur of the Beartooth and Absaroka mountains witnessed
along the Beartooth Highway; and the deadly Madison landslide that
killed twenty-eight people in 1959. With prose tooled for the lay reader
and a multitude of colorful photos and illustrations, Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country will help you read the landscape the way a geologist does.
The Geology Underfoot series encourages you to get out of your car for
an up-close look at rocks and landforms. These books inform and
enlighten, no matter how much—or how little—geology you already know.
What’s more, they’re simply good reading, on-site or at home.
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