Roadside Geology of Southern British Columbia
- ISBN-10
- 0878425039
- ISBN-13
- 9780878425037
- Category
- Travel / Essays & Travelogues
- Pages
- 403
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Mountain Press Publishing Company
- Authors
- William Henry Mathews, J. W. H. Monger
Description
Southern British Columbia, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alberta border east of Golden, spans the Canadian Cordillera, a mountainous region with a tumultuous geologic history that continues to evolve with every volcanic eruption, landslide, and earthquake. Introductory sections of this guidebook interpret the geologic complexity of four regions-Vancouver Island, the Coast, the Interior Plateaus, and the Columbia and Rocky Mountains-and thirty-one road guides describe the rocks and landforms that are visible from the province's highways and ferry routes. Discover lava that chilled beneath ice, learn how engineers blew up a shoal in the narrowest part of the Inside Passage, and drive across a slow-moving earthflow. Book jacket.
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