The Great Basin Seafloor

The Great Basin Seafloor PDF Author: Frank DeCourten
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ISBN: 9781647690502
Category : Geology
Languages : en
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Book Description
"Applying the fundamental principles of geology to the rocks of the Great Basin, we now have indisputable evidence that the region, however lofty and dry it may appear today, lay almost continuously beneath the waters of vanished oceans for more than 400 million years. The bed of this ancient ocean, where enormous amounts of mud, muck, and sand accumulated during the immense period of inundation, is the subject of this book: it is the Sagebrush Seafloor"--