Roadside Geology of Montana

The Roadside Geology series originated in 1972 with Roadside Geology of the Northern Rockies. Fourteen years later, the Big Sky portion of that book was updated to become Roadside Geology of Montana, a bright-yellow field guide that soon graced bookshelves across the state. Now, nearly 50 years after the first book, Mountain Press is releasing this completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories. For example, Montana lies at the northern edge of the Yellowstone caldera, the world's largest and most violent volcano. A lot of what the wold knows about dinosaurs and their demise came from fossils discovered in Montana's badlands. What began with panning for gold in the 1860s led to 1-mile-deep mines in Butte that supplied 60 percent of the world's copper by 1898. The world's largest ice age floods left ripples up to 50 feet high as Glacial Lake Missoula catastrophically drained from western Montana. With this book as your guide, you'll discover these and other world-class geologic features around every bend of the road.

Donald W. Hyndman is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Montana (UM) in Missoula. He earned a BA in Geological Engineering at the University of British Columbia and a PhD in Geology at the University of California, Berkeley. Recognized as a Distinguished Teacher and Distinguished Scholar by UM, he is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. Don also wrote widely adopted university textbooks on igneous and metamorphic rocks and more recently, with his son, five editions of "Natural Hazards and Disasters." Robert C. Thomas is a Professor of Geology in the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Montana Western in Dillon. He earned a BA from Humboldt State University, an MS from the University of Montana, and a PhD from the University of Washington. A Montana Regents Professor and Teaching Scholar, Montana Educator of the Year, and Carnegie US Professor. Rob is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and recipient of their Distinguished Service Award. His personal passions are family, mountain recreation, and playing guitar around a campfire.

The Roadside Geology series originated in 1972 with Roadside Geology of the Northern Rockies . Fourteen years later, the Big Sky portion of that book was updated to become Roadside Geology of Montana , a bright-yellow field guide that soon graced bookshelves across the state. Now, nearly 50 years after the first book, Mountain Press is releasing this completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories. For example, Montana lies at the northern edge of the Yellowstone caldera, the world's largest and most violent volcano. A lot of what the wold knows about dinosaurs and their demise came from fossils discovered in Montana's badlands. What began with panning for gold in the 1860s led to 1-mile-deep mines in Butte that supplied 60 percent of the world's copper by 1898. The world's largest ice age floods left ripples up to 50 feet high as Glacial Lake Missoula catastrophically drained from western Montana. With this book as your guide, you'll discover these and other world-class geologic features around every bend of the road.

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