Research Catalog

Title

Roadside geology of southern British Columbia / Bill Mathews and Jim Monger.

Author

Mathews, William Henry, 1919-

Publication

Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub. Co., c2005.

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Additional Authors

Monger, J. W. H.

Description

xi, 403 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

• Southern British Columbia, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alberta border east of Golden, spans the Canadian Cordillera, a mountainous region with a tumultuous geologic history that continues to evolve with every volcanic eruption, landslide, and earthquake. Introductory sections of this guidebook interpret the geologic complexity of four regions-Vancouver Island, the Coast, the Interior Plateaus, and the Columbia and Rocky Mountains-and thirty-one road guides describe the.
• Rocks and landforms that are visible from the province's highways and ferry routes. Discover lava that chilled beneath ice, learn how engineers blew up a shoal in the narrowest part of the Inside Passage, and drive across a slow-moving earthflow. Book jacket.

Subject

• Geology > British Columbia > Guidebooks
• Automobile travel > Guidebooks
• Automobile travel > British Columbia > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

• travel guidebooks.
• Guidebooks
• Guides touristiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-388) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the Geology of southern British Columbia. -- Insular Belt: Vancouver Island and the Strait of Georgia. -- Coast belt: Coast and Cascade Mountains. -- Intermontane belt: Interior plateaus. -- Omineca and Foreland Belts: Columbia and Rocky Mountains.

ISBN

0878425039 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005011929

OCLC

59879493

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library