Over the Coasts: An Aerial View of Geology

by Michael Collier

Geology comes alive as Michael Collier flies over North America's coasts. Geology usually takes its time -- about a few million years, generally. Yet there is one place where the geological processes often occur right before our along the coastline of a great body of water. The latest book in this acclaimed series takes the reader on aerial tours over the coastlines of the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, Great Lakes and Alaska. Along these coasts the earth is in perpetual motion, for Over the Coasts combines beautiful images with natural history and makes geological science readily accessible to the general reader. Science that is most apparent in these spectacular aerial portraits of our restless coasts.

Genres: Science, Photography, Geography

120 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Michael Collier is an American photographer. His work is often aerial photography of landscapes. He was featured in a recent NPR show and photo montage narrated by Howard Berkes called Sky Vision.[1] Collier's photographs in the book The Mountains Know Arizona won the National Outdoor Book Award in 2004 for Design and Artistic Merit.

Collier used to have the job of rowing boats in the Grand Canyon. Collier currently practices medicine in Flagstaff, Arizona for his career. He also is a professor at the NAU School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

Reviews

[Sally · Rating 4 out of 5]

Striking aerial photos of America's coasts, with just the right amount of text and captions to give an understanding of why the different coasts look as they do. A great combination of science and art.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

BEAUTIFUL photographs, but not written for a k-12 student to really read independently. (Not that I blame them; I don't think that was the purpose.) Would be a great aid in a science class.