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Title: A "Geology for Dummies" book?
Review: Actually this is not a "geology for dummies" book. Wm Lee Stokes has written a book on the geology of the Plateau Lands of the American West. It's center is Four Corners and it stretches beyond the Colorado Plateau to the Great American Desert to the Southwest to the Rocky Mountains (page 3).Stokes describes hard rock and soft rock. He describes large rock and small rock, fractured rock and what makes it (most are found broken and lying on the ground due subsurface pressures that cause joints), the colors of rock, cliffs, mesas and buttes, canyons, arroyos, washes, and gullies, monuments, etc.On one hand Stokes has not written a book with much depth to it. A "Geology for Dummies" book would have far more depth. On the other hand, Stokes has written a book with some great hand-drawn sketches that give me fond memories of southwestern Utah (the Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon area) where I bought the book. So it's a keeper.
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