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Geologic map of North America. The geology of North America is a subject of regional geology and covers the North American continent, the third-largest in the world. Geologic units and processes are investigated on a large scale to reach a synthesized picture of the geological development of the continent. The divisions of regional geology are ...
GeoRef. The GeoRef database is a bibliographic database that indexes scientific literature in the geosciences, including geology. Coverage ranges from 1666 to the present for North American literature, and 1933 to the present for the rest of the world. It currently contains more than 4.3 million references. It is widely considered one of the ...
Geology of the United States. Shaded relief map of the United States, showing 10 geological provinces. The richly textured landscape of the United States is a product of the dueling forces of plate tectonics, weathering and erosion. Over the 4.5 billion-year history of the Earth, tectonic upheavals and colliding plates have raised great ...
The geology of the Appalachians dates back more than 1.2 billion years to the Mesoproterozoic era [1] when two continental cratons collided to form the supercontinent Rodinia, 500 million years prior to the development of the range during the formation of Pangea. The rocks exposed in today's Appalachian Mountains reveal elongate belts of folded ...
Geology (journal) Geology. (journal) Geology is a peer-reviewed publication of the Geological Society of America (GSA). GSA stated (in 2006) [1] that it is the most widely read scientific journal in the field of earth science. [needs update?] It is published monthly, with each issue containing 20 or more articles .
The Geological Society of America (GSA) [a] is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences.. The Geological Society of America building in Boulder, Colorado, U.S., from above, c. 2013 Geological field excursion to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, April 30, 1897, following the George Huntington Williams Memorial Lectures delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie at Johns ...
Eos (formerly Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union) is the news magazine published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). [1] The magazine publishes news and opinions relevant to the Earth and space sciences, as well as in-depth features on current research and on the relationship of geoscience to social and political questions.
978-0-374-10520-4. Dewey Decimal. 557.3 21. LC Class. QE77 .M38 1998. Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [1] It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [2] The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written ...