Ancient Landscapes of South Texas

📖 The Scoop

In this book about the Ancient Landscapes of South Texas, we travel from deep time at the forming of the solar system all the way to the algal mats that review themselves with each tidal cycle. We explore the evidence of our changing landscape. Ancient beaches and drowned shorelines, volcanoes, and shifting sand, giant oysters and mammoths, petrified forests and thousand-year-old living trees, tiny zircon crystals and a powerful river are part of our natural landscape. Juxtaposed with this is how this landscape has, for millennia, shaped the lives of people in the past. Today, in the Anthropocene, we see how human activities, dating largely from the Industrial Revolution, changed the earth's landscape and ecosystems. The photographs in this book tell the story and should encourage Geotourism and a broader celebration of our Public Heritage of South Texas along the Rio Grande. Keywords are: Geoheritage, Geotourism, Human-land interaction, Anthropocene, South Texas Geology, Rio Grande Valley Geology and Culture, Ecotourism

Genre: History / United States / General (fancy, right?)