Adventures through deep time
Subtitle: the central Mississippi River Valley and its earthquakes
By: by Roy Van Arsdale.
Series: Special paper -- 455; Special papers (Geological Society of America) -- 455.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780813724553
Subjects: Geology -- Mississippi River Valley; Geology, Structural -- Mississippi River Valley; Earthquakes -- Mississippi River Valley
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Geologic history of the Central Mississippi River Valley area in a nutshell; title: Precambrian rocks : foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley; title: Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States; title: Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley; title: Appalachian-Ouachita mountains and their foreland basins; title: Pangea rips apart : the formation of the Gulf of Mexico; title: Cretaceous-tertiary formation of the Mississippi embayment and Mississippi River; title: Sediments of the Mississippi embayment; title: The central Mississippi River Valley and its great earthquakes of 1811-1812; title: What's next?