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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Mining is one of the oldest applications of practical geology. Find out how metals are classified and how most are associated with igneous and metamorphic deposits. Some metals, like gold, can be mined in a pure—"native"—state that requires little processing. Discover how and where to go prospecting for gold, using the panning process perfected by the Forty-Niners in California.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast deepwater basin on improvised boats. To make it, Molly and the others must work together, but a rift of a different kind is forming among the survivors. If they aren't careful, it could eat them alive.
5) Liferaft
Author
Series
Horizon volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Geological change is rarely as dramatic and stunning than it is in the Hawaiian Islands. Beginning millions of years ago, volcanoes burst from the ocean to create the islands. Today, lava flows and landslides continue to reshape the land and sea. Readers will learn about the volcanic hot spot and shifting tectonic plates that created the chain of tropical islands. Vivid images, including photographs of recent eruptions of the Kilauea volcano, will...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mount Everest, Earth's tallest mountain over sea level, formed about 40 million to 50 million years ago when prehistoric continents split and collided. This process was made possible by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. In this book, readers will learn more about how the movement of these tectonic plates helped form the Himalayas, including Everest. Breathtaking photos provide readers with visual correlations to the text, while fact boxes...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series, Scientists Who Changed History profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, such as Archimedes and Hipparchus, through physicists of the early 20th-century, such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, to modern greats such as Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee. Each featured individual has made a major contribution to one or more scientific fields, from astronomy, biology, and...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"People have weeks of warning prior to volcanic eruptions, days of warning before a blizzard, and hours of warning before tornadoes. But there is still no warning system at all for earthquakes, though they have killed millions, and millions more live in constant danger from them. In The Million Death Quake, British Geological Survey seismologist Roger Musson takes us on a riveting journey through earthquakes. After making plain the science behind...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Farah's little brother is in the hospital with a heart problem that needs surgery, so her parents send sixth-grader Farah off to stay with her grandmother in a retirement condo in Florida; Sitti Fayrouz does not speak much English, has a lot of rules, and does not understand Farah's interest in geology, so Farah is not happy with the move--but despite being the only child in the community, Farah finds that the people are nice, and despite getting...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. Lush verdure will be replaced with fire. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition ... The cause of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Just before 11 a.m. on March 22, 2014, an ominous rumble startled the residents of the community of Oso, Washington, about an hour's drive from Seattle. It was the terrifying sound of what would become the United States' deadliest landslide in decades. The equivalent of one million dump truck loads of earth came plummeting down the valley. In a little over two minutes, a pile of debris up to 75 feet deep slammed into the neighborhood of close to 50...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch:...
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