Adventures through deep time : the central Mississippi River Valley and its earthquakes / by Roy Van Arsdale

• Geologic history of the Central Mississippi River Valley area in a nutshell -- Precambrian rocks : foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley -- Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States -- Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley -- Appalachian-Ouachita mountains and their foreland basins -- Pangea rips apart : the formation of the Gulf of Mexico -- Cretaceous-tertiary formation of the Mississippi embayment and Mississippi River -- Sediments of the Mississippi embayment -- The central Mississippi River Valley and its great earthquakes of 1811-1812 -- What's next?. 

Ämnesord

Geology  -- Mississippi River Valley. (LCSH)

Geology, Structural  -- Mississippi River Valley. (LCSH)

Earthquakes  -- Mississippi River Valley. (LCSH)

Jordbävningar  -- Förenta staterna -- Mississippi (sao)

Klassifikation

QE78.7 (LCC)

557.7 (DDC)

Ud-qa (kssb/8)