{"product_id":"9781468464467","title":"Mountains and Minerals\/Rivers and Rocks: A Geologist’s Notes from the Field","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMountains and Minerals\/Rivers and Rocks: A Geologist’s Notes from the Field\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePicard, M.D.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this collection of essays, M. Dane (`Duke') Picard takes the  reader on journeys across deserts, mountains, canyons, and rivers from  the American Southwest to Italy and France. His blend of vivid  description and humor evokes the rugged days of field petroleum  geology in the Great Plains and pastel Badlands of Utah and Wyoming in  the 1950s and later days unlocking the geological secrets of sandstone  in the Rockies. \u003cbr\u003e  Along the way, he pokes gentle fun at the academic life in stories  that will make anyone smile who's ever sat on a faculty committee or  chaired a professional meeting. The final essays on his travels  through Provence and Italy are rich with details of the beauty and the  history - both human and geological - of the  regions.\u003cbr\u003e  M.D. Picard is the author of numerous professional articles and books,  and has served as president of the National Association of Geology  Teachers, the Society of Sedimentary Geology, and the Rocky Mountain  section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is  well known to the geological community for the essays and book reviews  he has published over the last ten years in geoscience journals and  magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2013-06-11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781468464467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4684-6444-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 229cm x152cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 168\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47405287800972,"sku":"9781468464467","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781468464467.jpg?v=1775819540","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781468464467","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}