The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America Vol. I, Tectonics, Structure, and Volcanism; Vol. 2, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology by Letourneau, Peter M. and Olsen, Paul E - 2003

New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. First edition, first printing.

TWO RICHLY ILLUSTRATED FOLIO VOLUMES PROVIDE AN EXPANDED VIEW OF THE GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA.

Two folio volumes 11 1/4 inches tall, color printed laminated covers, Vol. 1: i-ix, [2], 214 pp, illustrations; Vol 2: i-xxiii, [2], 384 pp, illustrations. Fine, like new.

PETER M. LETOURNEAU is a research affiliate of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, and a former Visiting Scholar and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University. Dr. LeTourneau has conducted extensive studies on the geology, ecology, and cultural history of the Connecticut Valley. He has conducted substantial field research on the paleoclimates, fossils, and ancient environments of Triassic-Jurassic age rift valleys in New England, the mid-Atlantic area, the Canadian Maritimes, and the western High Atlas region of Morocco, as well as the Cenozoic through modern rifts of the U. S. basin and range province, including Death Valley and adjacent areas.

PAUL E. OLSEN received a M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in Biology at Yale University in 1984. His interests and research examine patterns of ecosystem evolution and extinction as a response to climate change over geological time, and Triassic and Jurassic Continental Ecosystems. His research methods include paleoclimatology, structural geology, paleontology, palynology, geochemistry, and geophysics. Professor Olsen is currently Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University; Research Associate at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, the American Museum of Natural History and the Virginia Natural History Museum, from which he received the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science, in 2015. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.