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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 ex...Log In or Sign Up to Read More