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Roadside Geology of Utah (Roadside Geology Series) (Roadside Geology Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Halka Chronic
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 75082
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 326
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0878422285
Dewey Decimal Number: 557.92
EAN: 9780878422289
ASIN: 0878422285
Publication Date: January 1, 1990
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Product Description
No one can ignore the colorful rocks of Utah: the Vermilion Cliffs of Wingate sandstone, the snow white and salmon pink bluffs of Navajo sandstone, or the yellow and pink rhyolite of Big Rock Candy Mountain. Roadside Geology of Utah is a riveting account of the forces that made the brilliant cliffs, mountains, and canyonlands we see today. The author's smooth prose brings the rocks of Utah and their long history into sharp and enjoyable focus.
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 Roadside Geology of Utah August 27, 2007
This book is amazingly interesting and informative. I can't wait to travel the state of Utah with this book as a guide!
 study a bit before you use it July 31, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'd recommend a little study of geology, and the formations found in Utah before hitting the road with this book. KC Publications 48 page glossy color "Colorado Plateau", which I found at one of the National Parks, gives you a great introduction to a good fraction of Utah and shows the positions of the formations along with a time line. If you are a layman at geology, unless you prepare, you will get dizzy with references to formations aided only by black and white pictures. The lack of color illustrations is puzzling when color means so much in identification of rocks in the area. If you can easily recognize formations, this book is a great aid as you travel.
Very nice book to take with you March 20, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you are interested in Geology, Utah is a wonderful place to travel in. From the layercake sedimentary rock of the colorado plateau, to the contorted ranges of the great basin, there is much to see in Utah. The author gives you a basic understanding of Utah's geologic history and then applies it as you travel through various bi-ways.
For more indepth discussion of Utah's geology, try to find a copy of William Lee Stokes or Lehi Hintze's book. You might be able to find them at the Dept. of Natural Resources bookstore in Salt Lake City.
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Served me well June 30, 1999
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I just spent two weeks on the Colorado plateau with a geology field studies class. This, a geo dictionary and Desert Solitaire were the only books I brought with me (I came home with more of course!), and I was OK. I would say that the layout of the book is fairly accessible. If you are familiar with the series, you know it is arranged by highway. Compared however with the lecture notes I was taking, the geology was rather rudimentary. But, if you are just passing through (be sure to haul along Roadside Arizona, Colorado, or wherever else you may be when you run out of Utah road, and the book dead ends) than this book is sufficient.Five stars because it is exactly what it says it is.
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