Baja Californias Coastal Landscapes Revealed

Author : Markes E. Johnson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816544190
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baja California's Coastal Landscapes Revealed written by Markes E. Johnson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baja California is an improbably long and narrow peninsula. It thrusts out like a spear, parting the Mexican mainland from the Pacific Ocean. In his third installment on the Gulf of California’s coastal setting, expert geologist and guide Markes E. Johnson reveals a previously unexplored side to the region’s five-million-year story beyond the fossil coral reefs, clam banks, and prolific beds of coralline algae vividly described in his earlier books. Through a dozen new excursions, in Baja California’s Coastal Landscapes Revealed, Johnson returns to these yet wild shores to share his gradual recognition of another side to the region. Johnson reveals a geologic history that is outside the temporal framework of a human lifetime and scored by violent storms. We see how hurricanes have shaped coastal landscapes all along the peninsula’s inner coast, a fascinating story only possible by disassembling the rocks that on first appraisal seem incomprehensible. Looking closely, Johnson shows us how geology not only helps us look backward but also forward toward an uncertain future. The landscape Johnson describes may be apart from the rest of Mexico, but his expert eye reveals how it is influenced by the unfolding drama of Planet Earth’s global warming.

Author : Markes E. Johnson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654252X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baja California's Coastal Landscapes Revealed written by Markes E. Johnson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert geologist and guide Markes E. Johnson takes us on a dozen rambles through wild coastal landscapes on Mexico's Gulf of California. Descriptions of storm deposits from the geologic past conclude by showing how the future of the Baja California peninsula and its human inhabitants are linked to the vast Pacific Basin and populations on the opposite shores coping with the same effects of global warming.

Author : Markes E. Johnson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816598843
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California written by Markes E. Johnson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baja California is one of the Earth’s last great wilderness areas that is easily accessible to travelers. Whether you enter from the United States to the north or from Cabo San Lucas to the south, it doesn’t take long to find yourself passing through a unique desert ecosystem of islands and land bound by the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Gulf of California on the east. But where, you might ask, can you go to best experience the physical majesty of Baja California? This book holds the answer. Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California describes—and maps and illustrates—nine hikes along outcrops on islands and peninsular shores where geography, geology, and ecology meet in singular ways. Each spot tells a story about the nature of the place—the cumulative effects of millions of years of natural forces at work. During the course of his long teaching career, Markes E. Johnson has hiked much of Baja California, often with students in tow. He brings a lifetime of study to his simple descriptions of the stories that are revealed by looking closely at natural phenomena framed by rocks and fossils. This hiking guide offers a wealth of stories that seem to encompass everything, and can clearly communicate Johnson’s deep understanding of how our planet’s ecosystems function. Whether you like to hike with your boots on or from the comfort of your favorite chair, this book is a must-have for anyone who has visited or hopes to visit Baja California’s Gulf Coast.

Author : Markes E. Johnson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231559259
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands in Deep Time written by Markes E. Johnson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilltops surrounded by farmland in southern Wisconsin turn out to be the eroded remnants of an ancient archipelago. An island in the Yellow Sea where Korean tourists flock is the peak of a flooded mountain rising from a drowned continental shelf. From a mountaintop shrine to Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, the silhouette of a Silurian seascape can be spotted. On the shores of Hudson Bay, where polar bears patrol the Arctic tundra, a close look unveils what was a tropical coastline encrusted with corals nearly 450 million years ago. The geologist Markes E. Johnson invites readers on a journey through deep time to find the traces of ancient islands. He visits a dozen sites around the globe, looking above and below today’s waterlines to uncover how landscapes of the past are preserved in the present. Going back 500 million years to the Cambrian through the Pleistocene 125,000 years ago, this book reconstructs how “paleoislands” appeared under different climatic conditions and environmental constraints. Finding vestiges of prehistoric ecologies, Johnson emphasizes the complexity of island ecosystems and the importance of preserving these significant sites. Inviting and accessible, this book is a travelogue that takes readers through time as well as space. Islands in Deep Time shares the adventure of exploring striking locations across geologic eras and issues a passionate call for their conservation.

Author : Markes E. Johnson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522293
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Geology of Baja California written by Markes E. Johnson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baja California: wild, desolate, and a treasure-house of geological wonders. Along its ancient shorelines, careful observers can learn much about how the Gulf of California came into existence and what the future of the Baja California peninsula might be. For those who wish to unlock the mysteries of Baja California, geologist Markes Johnson offers the key. He has taken a body of technical research on the geology and paleontology of the region and made it accessible in plain language for anyone who visits the peninsula, whether for study or recreation. His book teaches general concepts in coastal geomorphology and tectonics, as well as the basic geological and natural history of the Gulf of California, in a conversive, intellectually stimulating fashion. Johnson's guide takes the form of six day-long hikes in the area of Punta Chivato on the east coast of the southern Baja California peninsula. Punta Chivato is presented as a microcosm of the entire region; it can enable visitors to better understand major themes in the natural history of the Gulf of California and its geological past. All of the hikes begin at the southeast corner of the Punta Chivato promontory and loop out in different directions. Each circuit is designed to minimize overlap with adjacent hikes and to maximize the visitor's exposure to instructive variations in the landscape. Each chapter features additional reflections on a geologist of another time and place who has advanced the field in a way that elucidates the material covered in that chapter. Through these asides, readers will learn the basic lessons about how geologists read the secrets hidden in landscapes. Discovering the Geology of Baja California invites visitors to these shores to explore not only rocks and fossils but also the continuum of past ecosystems with the ecology of the present. It offers both an unparalleled guide to a remote area and a new understanding of life caught in an endless cycle of change.

Author : Jack B. Bale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coastal and Shore Landforms of Baja California Del Norte, Mexico written by Jack B. Bale and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of seventeen maps is presented of the coastal and shore morphology of the northern half of the peninsula of Baja California. A total of 38 classes of both shoreward and landward categories are descriptively employed to cartographically display information interpreted from uncontrolled oblique aerial photographs to existing base maps. Thirty-six examples of color infrared oblique aerial photographs used in the analysis are presented. The greatest difficulty encountered was lack of critical ground control on the photography which necessitated interpretation and resectioning of data onto small scale (1:200,000) maps. (Author).

Author : University of California, Riverside. Department of Geography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coastal Studies in Baja, California written by University of California, Riverside. Department of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June, 1970 Rodman Snead made a field study of particular rock types in the San Felipe area of Baja California. Later that summer at a remote sensing institute at the University of California, Riverside, Douglas McDonald and Rodman Snead had an opporunity to study three different types of aerial photographs taken over the San Felipe region. The three types of photographs were medium altitude black and white vertical photographs, low altitude color infrared oblique photographs, and Apollo IX space photography. The purpose of this paper is to mention the landforms observed on the ground which can be easily viewed on these photographs and to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using each of the three types. (Author).

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Characterization of the Central and Northern California Coastal Region: pt.1. Regional characterization. pt.2. Species written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Southern California Ocean Studies Consortium
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Summary of Knowledge of the Southern California Coastal Zone and Offshore Areas: Physical environment written by Southern California Ocean Studies Consortium and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Bruce Griggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520938674
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with the Changing California Coast written by Gary Bruce Griggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowded into the beautiful, narrow strip at the edge of the ocean, the large number of people who live near California's dynamic coastline often have little awareness of the hazards—waves, tides, wind, storms, rain, and runoff—that erode and impact the coast and claim property on a regular basis. This up-to-date, authoritative, and easy-to-use book, a geological profile of the California coast from Mexico to the Oregon border, describes the landforms and processes that shape the coastline and beaches, documents how erosion has affected development, and discusses the options that are available for dealing with coastal hazards and geologic instability. A completely revised and updated edition of Living with the California Coast (1985), this book features hundreds of new photographs and the latest data on human activity on the coast, on climate change, on rising seas levels, and on coastal erosion and protection. With its dramatic photographs and mile-by-mile maps, Living with the Changing California Coast will be an essential resource for those intending to buy or build along the coast, those who need specific information about various coastal regions, and those who are seeking information about how this remarkable coastline has evolved. *279 photographs portray natural coastal features and processes and illustrate many instances of what can happen to buildings on the coast *81 maps, covering the entire coast, detail types of coastal landforms, coastline erosion rates, locations of seawalls or armor, and other specific areas of interest *Offers specific advice for homebuyers,residents, and developers on which areas to avoid, on what safety measures should be taken, and on what danger signals should be heeded