Written in Stone: A Geographical History of the Northeastern United States

In vivid, non-technical prose, two university professors-a father and daughter team-trace the geological changes in the American northeast since the continent perched on the equator and dinosaurs were young. Continents collide, oceans disappear, mountain ranges rise and fall, and mass extinctions decimate entire species. This is an indispensable reference to an understanding of the forces that shaped our familiar landscape from Maine to New Jersey.