Roadside Geology of Ohio
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Roadside Geology of Ohio
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Best UseTravel
State / ProvinceOhio
FormatPaperback
Dimensions9 x 6 inches
Author(s)Mark Camp
PublisherMountain Press
Number of Pages416
ISBN-139780878425242
Copyright Year2006
Description

Ohio's bedrock reveals a rich story of the ancient landscapes and animals, massive meat-eating reptiles, footlong clams and lumbering mammoths. Roadside Geology of Ohio helps you discover it all.

Features
  • 25 road guides—complete with 172 photographs and 59 maps and figures—lead you from one corner of the state to the other
  • Road guides take you from the flat till plains of the west to the hilly eastern Allegheny Plateau, and from the Ohio River valley to the Lake Erie shoreline
  • Clear writing explains how caverns and disappearing streams form in karst, and why mud cracks, ripple marks and cross-bedding layers are entombed in sedimentary rock
  • Also details how grooves up to 10 ft. deep were gouged into the limestone of Kelleys Island
  • Learn how Ohio's present landscape was shaped by fluctuating seas full of marine life, widespread floodplains and rivers choked with sediment, and mile-thick ice sheets
  • Explore the human side of Ohio's geologic tale, learning about how Native Americans fashioned razor-sharp flint spear points and how oil, gas and coal fueled economic booms
  • Discover how sandstone and limestone built communities and thriving economies