Exploring the geology of Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
Subtitle: the greatest story ever told by nine miles of rock
By: [by Ron Harris]
Series: [Geology studies special publication -- no. 11]; Brigham Young University geology studies -- 11.
Publisher: BYU Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Provo, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781611660098
Subjects: Geology
Other titles: Greatest story ever told by nine miles of rock
Notes: Series statement from letter laid in.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Forming the canyon. Cut out of the mountain without hands ; Ice ages ; A glacier runs through it ; Cirque du Soleil ; Glacial buzz saw ; Glacial bucket brigade ; From rocks to plants ; Why did Earth cool?; title: Forming the Wasatch Front. The Wasatch Front is the Wasatch Fault ; Stick-slip movement ; Eastward tilt of Wasatch Range; title: Geological chronicles of Little Cottonwood Canyon. Chronicles of Rodinia : when the West was one ; Chronicles of Panthalassa : when the West sunk ; Chronicles of Cordillera : when the West rose ; Chronicles of Wasatch : when the West collapsed ; Cordilleran Mountain building cycle from the top of the Snowbird tram; title: Exploring the upper part of the canyon; title: Epilogue.