The Crust of Our Earth: An Armchair Traveler's Guide to the New Geology

By Chet Raymo

Book Overview

135 pages of excellent text, filled with great illustrations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131950991
• ISBN13: 9780131950993
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Crust rocks!

I made my 8th grade earth science students buy and read this book every year until it went out of print. It's easy to read, doesn't require a degree in geology to understand, and its chapters are mostly 2 pages long with simple, to-the-point illustrations. Each chapter features some place of geologic interest around the world--Grand Canyon, Vesuvius, Krakatoa, San Francisco, Hawaii, Iceland, Mt. St. Helens, etc. I keep hoping it'll come back into print.