Research Catalog

Title

Geology underfoot in Illinois / Raymond Wiggers.

Author

Wiggers, Raymond, 1952-

Publication

Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1997.

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Details

Description

xiii, 303 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Geology Underfoot in Illinois scratches the Prairie State's surface to expose geologic diversity that stretches back more than a billion years." -- Back cover.

Subject

• Geology > Illinois

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Illinois back when: An overview -- Tips for exploring the sites described in this book -- 1. Lead Mines and Lovely Hills (Galena and Environs) -- 2. A Diversionary Tale (Apple River Canyon State Park) -- 3. A Scenic Bluff, a Zone of Faults, and the Track of a Mighty River (Mississippi Palisades State Park) -- 4. The Upper Rock River: Part One (Lowden State Park) -- 5. The Upper Rock River: Part Two (Castle Rock State Park to Dixon) -- 6. A World of Wind and Melting Glaciers (THe Princeton Area and the Green River Lowland) -- 7. Cliffs, Canyons, and Catastrophes: the Upper Illinois River (Buffalo Rock and Starved Rock State Parks) -- 8. A Land like the Rolling Sea (Glacial Park and Environs) -- 9. A Pocket History of Freshwater Sea (Illinois Beach State Park) -- 10. A Primer of North Shore Geology (Lake Bluff to Evanston) -- 11. In the Land of the Fox (Batavia and Environs) -- 12. The Architectural Geology of Downtown Chicago: A Sampler (The Near North SIde and the Loop) --^
• 13. Exploring the Lower Des Plaines (Lockport and Lemont) -- 14. Blue Island Bracketed (Chicago's South Side) -- 15. A Deep Look at the Distant Past (Thornton Quarry) -- 16. In the Path of the Kankakee Torrent (Kankakee River State Park and Environs) -- 17. The Realm of Fossil Forests (The Mazon Creek Area and the Longwall District) -- 18. Across a Lazy River (Henry and Environs) -- 19. A Landscape Throws off Its Glacial Burden (The Galesburg Plain) -- 20. Homage to the Mississippian (Nauvoo to Warsaw) -- 21. The Havana Lowland (Pekin to Havana) -- 22. Reconstructing a Coal Age Stream (North of Ripley) -- 23. A Mystery from the Gas of the Dinosaurs (THe Beverly-Baylis Upland) -- 24. The 120-million-year Hike (Pere Marquette State Park) -- 25. Moraine-Surfing down the Interstate (Pontiac to Le Roy) -- 26. A Tale of Two Rivers (Monticello and Environs) -- 27. Coal Country and Pennsylvanian Cyclothems (Forest Glen County Preserve and Environs) --^
• 28. On the Edge of Two Ages (Shelbyville and the Interlobate Complex) -- 29. The Black bounty of the Illinois Basin (Robinson to Rose Hill) -- 30. The Lower Wabash Considered (Beall Woods State Park and Environs) -- 31. Caverns, Sinkholes, and Falling Water: the World According to Karst (Dupo to Illinois Caverns State Natural Area) -- 32. A Fault-Seeking Expedition (Fountain Bluff to the Pine Hills Escarpment) -- 33. Sandstone Gorges, Rock Shelters, and a Natural Bridge (Bell Smith Springs) -- 34. What Goes Down Must Come Up (The Garden of the Gods and the Eagle Valley Syncline) -- 35. The Geologic Wonders of an (Almost) Undiscovered Country (Hicks Dome to Cave-in-Rock State Park) -- 36. The Little River that Couldn't (Hamletsburg to Cache River State Natural Area) -- 37. The Meeting of the Waters (Olmsted to Cairo).

ISBN

087842346X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96044732^

OCLC

• 35646534
• SCSB-10376134

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library