From the Islands to the Mountains
Title | From the Islands to the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Richard V. Heermance |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-06-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813700590 |
Sunken Islands of the Mid-Pacific Mountains
Title | Sunken Islands of the Mid-Pacific Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin L. Hamilton |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Geology |
ISBN | 0813710642 |
This report is concerned with the data and samples collected on the flat-topped seamounts. There is proof that these seamounts are an ancient chain of islands now sunk a mile deep in the Middle Pacific.
Mountain Islands and Desert Seas
Title | Mountain Islands and Desert Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick R. Gehlbach |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Mexican-American Border Region |
ISBN | 9780890965665 |
In this engaging personal narrative, biologist Fred Gehlbach describes the stability and changes of the past century in the Borderlands' climate, landforms, and natural communities and in its distinctive plants and vertebrates.
From the Islands to the Mountains
Title | From the Islands to the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Richard V. Heermance |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Geology |
ISBN | 9780813756592 |
This volume includes five geologic field-trip guides in the Los Angeles region associated with the 2020 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting that was scheduled for May 2020, in Pasadena, California. The guides are organized in a generally counterclockwise order around the Los Angeles Basin. The first guide by Burgette et al. provides new slip rates, age constraints, and observations of the active Sierra Madre fault zone that borders the northern side of the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys. The Nourse et al. guide takes a new look at the San Gabriel Mountains from a basement and geomorphologic perspective. Further west, Keller et al. provide one of the first published field-trip guides focused on the 9 January 2018 Montecito debris flows that caused 23 deaths. The volume then moves south to Santa Cruz Island, where Davis et al. provide an updated review of the island’s geology within the California borderlands. The final guide returns to the east, where Platt et al. present the unique geology of Santa Catalina Island with a focus on the subduction-related Catalina Schist.
Angel Island
Title | Angel Island PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Freedman |
Publisher | Clarion Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780544810891 |
Looks at the history of the port of entry off the coast of California that was "the other Ellis Island" for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940.
Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas
Title | Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 652 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biodiversity |
ISBN |
Fire Mountains of the Islands
Title | Fire Mountains of the Islands PDF eBook |
Author | R. Wally Johnson |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2013-12-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1922144231 |
Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.