Adventures through deep time
Subtitle: the Central Mississippi River Valley and its earthquakes
By: by Roy Van Arsdale.
Series: Special paper -- 452
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813724553
Subjects: Geology -- Mississippi River Valley; Geology, Structural -- Mississippi River Valley; Earthquakes -- Mississippi River Valley
Notes: 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: Pangaea 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?