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Although it’s also known for for wolves, bison, and stunning scenery, Yellowstone National Park was established as the world’s first national park in 1872 largely because of its geological wonders. In Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country, author and geologist Marc Hendrix takes you to over twenty sites in the park and surrounding region that illustrate the deep-time story of Yellowstone Country, from its early existence as a seafloor hundreds of millions of years ago to an earthquake swarm in 2008 that caused some folks to wonder if the Yellowstone Volcano was going to blow its top―again. Besides covering icons such as Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country visits sites that are less well known but just as mind blowing, including outcrops of rock deposited by superfast incendiary flows of hot ash; the glacially sculpted grandeur of the Beartooth and Absaroka mountains witnessed along the Beartooth Highway; and the deadly Madison landslide that killed twenty-eight people in 1959. With prose tooled for the lay reader and a multitude of colorful photos and illustrations, Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country will help you read the landscape the way a geologist does.
The Geology Underfoot series encourages you to get out of your car for an up-close look at rocks and landforms. These books inform and enlighten, no matter how much―or how little―geology you already know. What’s more, they’re simply good reading, on-site or at home.
PDF Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country  Marc S Hendrix 9780878425761 Books
"The interpretive signs in a national park are for everybody. But what if you aren't "everybody"? What if you love science, are really curious, want to know a bit more. What if you are the kind of person who reads every display in the visitors center and are still pretty sure that what they described wouldn't cause Old Faithful? If you are in Yellowstone, Marc Hendrix's book is definitely the right book for you.
Organized into what he calls "vignettes" each chapter takes on a different subject. He covers geysers, calderas, hot spots, fossil forests, fossil sea life, debris flows, and the rest of what matters for Yellowstone geology. A convenient map at the beginning (which, yes, shows Norris in the wrong place and leaves out Canyon) arranges these vignettes so you can read them as you visit the sites. While spending a few days in the park, I took 30-60 minutes each morning to read the chapters for the areas I was going to visit. When I got there, I had a much better understanding of what I was looking at and had a better "context" for the geological story.
This book is scientific but not overly technical (BTW: I'm an engineer). Each chapter gives plenty of insight without out being overdrawn. Each vignette is somewhere between a visitor's center display (too little) and a Scientific American Article (a little too much). It fits nicely in the park and the Yellowstone experience for the curious tourist. How do you know if this book is for you? If you answer "yes" to most of these questions, it is for you:
- do you need to know that a geyser requires a constriction and for the water to "flash" as it rises?
- are you curious how fast the hot spot is moving?
- do you want to calculate in your mind the odds of the next super eruption by knowing when the last eruptions occurred and where?
- would it be really interesting to know why Gibbon Falls is just below the caldera rim?
- do you hate it when your kids ask a geology question on vacation and you don't know the answer?
You decide."
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Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country  Marc S Hendrix 9780878425761 Books Reviews :
Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country  Marc S Hendrix 9780878425761 Books Reviews
- The interpretive signs in a national park are for everybody. But what if you aren't "everybody"? What if you love science, are really curious, want to know a bit more. What if you are the kind of person who reads every display in the visitors center and are still pretty sure that what they described wouldn't cause Old Faithful? If you are in Yellowstone, Marc Hendrix's book is definitely the right book for you.
Organized into what he calls "vignettes" each chapter takes on a different subject. He covers geysers, calderas, hot spots, fossil forests, fossil sea life, debris flows, and the rest of what matters for Yellowstone geology. A convenient map at the beginning (which, yes, shows Norris in the wrong place and leaves out Canyon) arranges these vignettes so you can read them as you visit the sites. While spending a few days in the park, I took 30-60 minutes each morning to read the chapters for the areas I was going to visit. When I got there, I had a much better understanding of what I was looking at and had a better "context" for the geological story.
This book is scientific but not overly technical (BTW I'm an engineer). Each chapter gives plenty of insight without out being overdrawn. Each vignette is somewhere between a visitor's center display (too little) and a Scientific American Article (a little too much). It fits nicely in the park and the Yellowstone experience for the curious tourist. How do you know if this book is for you? If you answer "yes" to most of these questions, it is for you
- do you need to know that a geyser requires a constriction and for the water to "flash" as it rises?
- are you curious how fast the hot spot is moving?
- do you want to calculate in your mind the odds of the next super eruption by knowing when the last eruptions occurred and where?
- would it be really interesting to know why Gibbon Falls is just below the caldera rim?
- do you hate it when your kids ask a geology question on vacation and you don't know the answer?
You decide. - I was hoping for geology of Yellowstone. This book has some park locations but most are outside of the park. The Underfoot book for Yosemite is much better, is about the park and more intertesting.
- If you have even a slight interest in the geology, and geomorphology, of Yellowstone, this book is amazing! If you're planning a trip to Yellowstone, be sure to take this book along. You will see things that you, otherwise, wouldn't know you're looking at. This book gives you insights into the majesty of Yellowstone that you would not understand, or appreciate, otherwise. It's written in a clear and well-organized fashion, and it does not leave you wondering if you're reading a doctoral dissertation. But, you'll feel that brilliant once you've finished it.
Great work! - Thanks!
- The perfect read for the complex geology of Yellowstone. Would hearty recommend reading!
- An excellent book that will get us back to Yellowstone to see some of the places he talks about!
- This is probably the best "geology for non-geologists" book I've read. I regularly do road trips around the West, and I try to read books about the geology I drive through. Earlier this month, I visited Yellowstone and picked up this book in the Park. This book will definitely guide my next trip to Yellowstone. The best part of this book is that the author ties information about geological developments to specific places you can visit and see. Instead of traditional chapters, the author has 20 "vignettes", each built around 3-4 road stops in and around the Park. He includes photographs and diagrams and explains what happened to create what you see at the stops. The vignettes are in chronological order from Precambrian basement rocks to the Hebgen Lake earthquake in 1959. You will find this book helpful if you just want to better understand how the Rocky Mountain West got to be the way it is. But if you're heading to or have been in Yellowstone, you will especially appreciate this book! (I paired this with the National Geographic map of Yellowstone so I'd have a larger map of the area to follow along with.)
- It’s hard to write geology for people like me who don’t know their Ordovician from their Pennsylvanian. Hendrix succeeds by telling the story like a real field geologist. Follow his directions to specific locations and he will walk you through each layer, unconformity and rock.
I found the most dramatic geology lent itself to the most interesting chapters; sedimentation and the like just doesn't excite. Still, I've seen other field guides to Yellowstone, and this is the one I recommend.
