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Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery
by Wayne Ranney
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Grand Canyon Association (2005-04)
ISBN: 0938216821
EAN: 9780938216827
Dewy Decimal #: 557.9132
Paperback: 160 pages
SKU: 08040098
Condition: New As issued no jac
Comments: New book. Trade paperback with no marks or creases. Appears unread. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Book Description
Carving Grand Canyon provides a synopsis of the intriguing ideas and innovative theories that geologists have developed over time. This story of a fascinating landscape is told in an engaging style that non-scientists will find inviting. The story's end, however, remains a mystery yet to be solved.
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Customer Reviews
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Water cuts through rock? Gee whiz, not sure...
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-01-02
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book should be bound with yarn and decorated with macaroni. Ridiculous reviews abound in this space. Everyone gives it 5 stars?! Really? Are you afraid Jesus is going to give you crabs if you only give it 4 stars?
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So the Noachian Flood did NOT carve Grand Canyon, NO WAY!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-12-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Yeah, I thought that title would get your attention (!)
What a remarkable gem of a book. I have to second the 9 rave reviews for this title.
The author is a local boy who studied geology through a MS in AZ and put it to good use in his own backyard. I appreciated the way he covered both the geochronology of GC geologic events and the chronology of geologists who took a stab at unraveling the remarkable geologic history. That timescale appears to end with the participants who wrote Colorado River: Origins and Evolution (2000). Another must read.
Creationists would do well to take a look at the geoscience, and, the unsolved mystery in this book that Noah and a christian god had no part in. Unfortunately Vail's GRAND CANYON: A DIFFERENT VIEW appears to be the rock on which they're willing to stand: superficial and supernatural.
The only negative comment I have is not finding GRAND CANYON GEOLOGY by Beus and Morales in the bibliography. Available at the GC bookstore where this title certainly deserves to be.
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Grand Canyon History in Stone
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-08-15
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Well done with good graphics, pictures and dialog that is not too technical. Visited the Grand Canyon after reading this book and found it to be quite adequate for beginner or one who may want more detailed evidence of the happenings millions of years ago. The writer has lived there, led hikes and has spent much time researching the latest theories.
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Very enlightening
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-07-12
For the casual observer of geologic formations, this book is a masterpiece! I have lived many years in the Colorado Plateau area and this book really helps the average person be able to understand how the Grand Canyon was formed. I recommend this book to many people I meet when they come to visit and want to know more about the area's formation.
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Mystery Story
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-02-21
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If geology had a face, it would probably be Grand Canyon. No other landscape on Earth offers such a familiar and powerful image of time, rock formation, and erosion. Grand Canyon has been a magnet not just for tourists but for many of America's most brilliant geologists. It may come as a surprise, then, to learn that geologists are still trying to figure out how the canyon got there. It's like our understanding of the origins of the Moon: Apollo was supposed to solve the mystery, but instead it left geologists more puzzled than ever. At least for awhile. It turns out that it was easier to understand the moon than Grand Canyon, for erosion on Earth has removed much of the evidence geologists need.
"Carving Grand Canyon" is the first book to explore the 150-year-long sluething into the formation of Grand Canyon. It stars the geological dectectives who've pursued this puzzle and lets them speak in their own (often eloquent) words. It shows how new evidence has been discovered, and how theories have emerged and been modified and sometimes eroded away. It brings us right up to date with today's cutting edge theories.
The author, Wayne Ranney, has the advantage of having led geology tours of Grand Canyon for years, and thus he knows how to communicate potentially confusing concepts to the public. This book is also well-endowed with illustrations and charts and maps that make it easier to visualize these concepts. In the end Ranney leaves us with a large sense of mystery, but then maybe this will inspire some young reader to become the geologist who will finally put all the puzzle pieces together.
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