pacific northwest landforms
Google Earth® is an amazing tool that has revolutionized how we are able to view the Earth through satellite imagery. Now it can be even better: we've turned it into a powerful tool for viewing bare naked landforms by stripping the "noise" of vegetation and the patchwork nature of the imagery.
Explore the big picture of physiographic provinces, or get down to the nitty gritty of volcanic debris, scoria cones and volcanic plugs. Compare the different types of volcanoes in one frame and see explore connections among them. View the entire drainage systems of Mts. Rainier, St. Helens, Hood, and others to predict where lahars will flow and who is at risk. The possibilities are endless.
Geologic History of the Pacific NW GeoMap - Side 1
Originally created as a museum exhibit for a general audience, many users - including geology professors - have called this map the best visual display of Pacific NW geology that currently exists. Used widely in classrooms (about 5th grade through college), it is also a popular museum/nature center gift shop/bookstore item.
In a geologic heartbeat, cataclysmic floods containing ten times the flow of all the world’s rivers thundered across the Pacific Northwest and changample of how major scientific theories have been challenged - and changed, with the emergence of new and compelling evidence - and how scientists are often not in agreement in their interpretations of that evidence.
Pacific Northwest landforms au naturale!
*Over 80 PowerPoint®-ready images, covering a wide range of Pacific Northwest landforms – from general Pacific NW, down to very detailed specifics...
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From the Publisher:
Written in the same vein as well-known author John McPhee’s books, Big Black Boring Rock is a collection of highly readable and witty essays that focus on the geology of the Pacific Northwest. Author Steve Reidel is a geologist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and an expert on Columbia River Basalt, the primary rock of the Columbia Basin – the semi-arid region of Washington State where most of the essays are set. The book collects a series of captivating essays Reidel has been writing for more than a decade for the Tri-City Herald, the daily newspaper of the Tri-Cities (Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick), Washington. Written in plain language, Reidel makes geology, an often difficult field to understand, accessible for all readers.
