Author: Monique Keiran and The Royal Tyrrell Museum. Published by Discovery Books, Calgary, Alberta, 2003, 1st Edition. Printed in China. Almost New Condition HARDCOVER BOOK, Almost New Condition Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 11.25 x 8.75 inch,119 pages.
READING THE ROCKS, A Biography of Ancient Alberta, By Monique Keiran and The Royal Tyrrell Museum, Draws on a rich storehouse of evidence and scientists at the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, offers a dramatic and vividly detailed chronicle of the province's geological history.
Alberta is one of the few places in the world where the past touches the present so directly and profoundly. From Devonian pools plumbed by today's oil and gas industry, to Jurassic seams mined for coal, to a tourist's view of Cenozoic grasslands bordering the majestic Rockies, the livelihood and recreation of most Albertans is touched directly by the ancient past. Alberta's geological history stretches from the Precambrian Era, 500 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, a mere 10,000 years ago. For more than a century, palaeontologists and geologists have been uncovering the remains of ancient creatures across this fossil-rich province, from the arid badlands to the Rocky Mountains. Recent abundant evidence from Alberta's landscape has contributed greatly to what we know about Earth's evolution.
With over 200 full-color photographs, and 45 maps, timelines, and line drawings, this easy-to-read volume starts with the Big Bang and ends with the modern era - everything readers need to know about the making of ancient Alberta and the extraordinary story found when reading the rocks.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Monique Keiran is a journalist, author, and editor with a lifelong interest in the environment and science. She has worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and other museums across North America and held editorial positions with the Entomological Society of British Columbia and Engineers and Geoscientists BC. She lives on Vancouver Island, where few dinosaur bones but many amazing fossils of plants, fish, marine reptiles, and other extinct sea critters have been found.
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