Adventures through deep time : the central Mississippi River Valley and its earthquakes / by Roy Van Arsdale.
| Author/creator | VanArsdale, R. B. |
| Format | Software |
| Publication Info | Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2009. |
| Description | vii, 107 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). |
| Subjects |
| Series | Special paper ; 455 Special papers (Geological Society of America) 455. ^A20279 |
| Contents | Geologic history of the Central Mississippi River Valley area in a nutshell -- Precambrian rocks : foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley -- Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States -- Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley -- Appalachian-Ouachita mountains and their foreland basins -- Pangea rips apart : the formation of the Gulf of Mexico -- Cretaceous-tertiary formation of the Mississippi embayment and Mississippi River -- Sediments of the Mississippi embayment -- The central Mississippi River Valley and its great earthquakes of 1811-1812 -- What's next? |
| General note | Accompanying compact disc includes video animations supplementing chapters 3, 7, 8, and 9 of the printed volume, in .mpeg, .avi, and Adobe Acrobat PDF files. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2009022013 |
| ISBN | 9780813724553 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0813724554 (pbk.) |