Book Review: Everglades Reading List: The Geology of the Florida Keys and Everglades: An Illustrated Field Guide To Florida

 Everglades Reading List: http://www.evergladesplan.org/read/Details.aspx?ItemId=122
The Geology of the Florida Keys and Everglades: An Illustrated Field Guide To Florida's Hidden Beauty

The Geology of the Florida Keys and Everglades: An Illustrated Field Guide To Florida's Hidden Beauty
by Edward Petuch
Non-Fiction
English
Thomson Publishers

Adult

 
ISBN:
Summary: "All color pictures, including 27 color plates of fossils and shells------it's written for the layman and amateur naturalist and contains a roadside geology guide with 32 localities that you can visit in the Keys and Everglades. Written for students (middle and high schools, college students) and it could be used as a text for a class." (notes from the author)

Product Description
Designed as the ideal local geology reference and field guide to the Florida Keys and Everglades, this comprehensive book includes detailed directions to all areas of geological interest as well as outstanding 4-color pictures and illustrations. Hundreds of South Florida’s most beautiful and important fossil shells and corals are identified in this handy reference guide. It is the perfect for both Students of Geology and Collectors.

About the Author
Dr. Edward Petuch is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include: The geology, biostratigraphy, and invertebrate paleontology of the Floridian Peninsula and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Research of the systematics, ecology, and biogeography of the western Atlantic mollusks (both fossil and Recent) Additional interests include biotic catastrophe and extinction theory, paleoceanography, and paleoclimatology Dr. Petuch has written numerous articles and books on these subjects.