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Title: Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes by Simon Lamb, Gary Hincks ISBN: 0-691-11596-6 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A stunning overview of a great mountain range
Comment: Research geologists rarely spend much energy synthesizing and making their work available to the general public, to both party's loss. But Lamb does that here, giving an accessible overview of the Central Andes that will be of interest to the traveller as well as the geologist. His writing is clear and filled with personal anecdotes that are well-integrated into his story. The combination of travelogue, the tale of a young man building a team and a career, and explanation of modern mountain-building concepts is an unusual way to present the material, but it provides spice and should motivate a wide range of readers to keep turning the pages. It is richly illustrated with detailed illustrations and maps of the highest quality, I can't thank the author and publisher enough for their care in this regard. I have a few quibbles, though. Lamb doesn't note the fact that lithosphere of increasingly young age has been subducted beneath S. America through the Cenozoic, making subduction increasingly difficult and converting an extensional 'Mariana-type' convergent margin into the present 'Andean-type' compressional margin. He doesn't mention the presence and role of 'flat-slab' segments of the S. American subduction zone (and their possible role in raising the Andes). He doesn't consider the importance of trade winds being blocked by Eastern Andes for producing the deserts and empty trenches of the central Andes. But these weaknesses are amply compensated for by the overall product, an ambitious, well-edited, and compelling overview of a great mountain range.
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Title: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian M. Fagan, Brian Fagan ISBN: 0465022812 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner ISBN: 0674011813 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich ISBN: 1559638796 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The End of Detroit : How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market by MICHELINE MAYNARD ISBN: 0385507690 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein ISBN: 0393058573 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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