Over the Coasts: An Aerial View of Geology

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Geology comes alive as Michael Collier flies over North The usa’s coasts.

Geology frequently takes its time — about a couple of million years, normally. Yet there may be one place where the geological processes ceaselessly occur right before our eyes: along the coastline of a great body of water.

The up to date book in this acclaimed series takes the reader on aerial tours over the coastlines of the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, Great Lakes and Alaska. Along these coasts the earth is in perpetual motion, for instance:

  • Barrier islands are repeatedly torn apart and reshaped by violent storms
  • Powerful waves jackhammer rocks into smithereens, carving coastal cliffs
  • Deltas, marshes, beaches, dunes, bays, lagoons, estuaries and fjords are created and recreated by the action of water against land.

Over the Coasts combines beautiful images with natural history and makes geological science readily accessible to the general reader. Science that may be most apparent in these spectacular aerial portraits of our restless coasts.

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