Basin and Range

Basin and Range

The first volume of McPhee's geology series, in which he drives across Nevada with a geologist and learns to see time in roadcuts. The book that taught a generation of readers to look at landscapes and see the forces that made them.
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Published 1905
Related Wild Words
duricrust DOOR-ih-krust delta saxifrage SAX-ih-frij arête  ah-RET piedmont PEED-mont desert varnish