Rocks, Minerals, and Geology of the Pacific Northwest

by Leslie Moclock, Jacob Selander

Overview

Ideal for rockhounds, hikers, and climbers, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live.
 
Rocks, Minerals, and Geology of the Pacific Northwest is a comprehensive field guide to the region’s most common and distinctive rocks, minerals, and fossil types found in the region. Each entry has color photography that shows a range of possibilities in appearance and a description of the defining physical properties and textures. Lists of minerals organized by other physical properties like habit, hardness, and cleavage are included.

• Covers Oregon and Washington
• Describes and illustrates more than 100 minerals and rocks
• 400 photographs, plus additional illustrations, tables, and maps
• Includes 40 landscape features viewable along trails in Washington and Oregon

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604699159
Publisher:	Timber Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Series:	A Timber Press Field Guide
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Leslie Moclock has an MS in geology from the University of California–Davis, where she taught field and laboratory geology. She held the position of curator at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon, for five years, where she enjoyed many opportunities to bring science to the public.

Jacob Selander grew up in Oregon and holds a PhD from the university of California–Davis. He is an instructor at Highline College in Des Moines, Washington, where he teaches introductory geology, geomorphology, and geologic hazards classes, with a focus on making the sometimes-daunting field of geology accessible to everyone. When not teaching, Jacob is a landscape photographer—one who is always excited to find visual examples of complex geologic phenomena.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book 7

Introduction to Geology and the Pacific Northwest 8

Minerals 31

Rocks 125

Did I Find a Meteorite? 205

Did I Find a Fossil? 210

Structures and Deformed Rocks 217

Landscapes and Geomorphology 239

Telling the Story 291

Acknowledgments 326

Appendix: Field Resources 327

Data Sources 331

Periodic Table of Elements 333

Metric Conversions 334

Further Reading 335

Glossary 336

Photo and Illustration Credits 342

Index 343

Editorial Reviews

★ 12/01/2020

This handsome addition to the publisher's "Pacific Northwest" field guide series, which, up to now, has focused on that region's flora and fauna, emphasizes basic geology and has a textbook feel—not surprising, given the authors' pedagogical backgrounds. Moclock was a museum curator involved in outreach; Selander teaches college-level geology. The book begins with a discussion of "earth-size" theories (e.g., plate tectonics, geologic time scale), and the Pacific Northwest's 13 physiographic regions are mapped and explained. Next come chapters on minerals and rocks, with 50-odd specimens presented for each. Minerals are organized by chemical composition, and lists of key features are supported with color, often full-page photographs; mineral property tables help identification. General information on the rock cycle begins the next section, followed by detailed description of specimens from igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic groups. Here and throughout the book, hand drawings illuminate important concepts. Short chapters on meteorites and fossils round out its "rock-in-hand" quick identification component. Discussions of structural geology and geomorphology follow, explaining the area's outcrops and surface landscape features. The book closes with a "geologic story" of the region—a fine demonstration of one of the volume's key lessons about "how geology is expressed at different scales." VERDICT Geologists both amateur and expert, rock hounds, geo-travelers—all will find this an engaging, useful reference.—Robert Eagan, Windsor P.L., Ont.

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