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Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State

by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780295752327
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
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  • Original Price: GBP 24.95
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Archaeology, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA), and Natural History

A guide to discovering the fascinating natural history beneath your feet

From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old.

In Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales, renowned paleontologist Elizabeth A. Nesbitt teams up with popular science writer David B. Williams to offer a fascinating, richly illustrated tour through more than a half billion years of natural history. Following an introduction to key concepts, twenty-four profiles--each featuring a unique plant, animal, or environment--tell the incredible stories of individual fossils, many of which are on display in Washington museums. The spectacular paleontology of Washington is brought to life with details of the fossils' discovery and extraction, their place in geological time, and the insights they provide into contemporary issues like climate change and species extinction.

Nesbitt, Elizabeth A.: - Elizabeth Nesbitt is Curator Emerita of Invertebrate & Micropaleontology at the Burke Museum, and associate professor of earth science at the University of Washington.

Williams, David B.: - David B. Williams writes about science and history. His many books include Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound, Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City, Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography and Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City, and Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology. He lives in Seattle.

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