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a blend of science and storytelling, with a mix of art and history
Dale Leckie guides you to Alberta’s most scenic sites with intriguing stories of Alberta’s landscape evolution.
Alberta's Spectacular Prairie and MOUNTAIN LANDSCApes
THE SCENIC GEOLOGY OF ALBERTA
Volcanoes and glaciers long past are just part of this insiders' guide to the well-travelled and not-so-well travelled routes that Albertans, visitors, and nature explorers will love. Allow geologist Dale Leckie to guide you through the intriguing story of Alberta's landscape evolution: from Waterton Lakes National Park, to Dinosaur Provincial Park, into the Prairies, and across Aberta's North.
A ROADSIDE TOURING AND HIKING GUIDE
With eye-catching illustrations and photographs, Leckie blends storytelling with science, augmented by local art and historical vignettes. The scenic geological wonders can be seen from roadside stops and explored by hikes. (Milk River Canyon Hoodoos; watercolour by L.C. Cariou)
PRAISE FOR THE SCENIC GEOLOGY OF ALBERTA
- From Waterton to the Swan Hills, take this book with you. It’s a treasury of easy-to-grasp geoscience about Alberta’s best-loved landscapes. – Ben Gadd, author of Canadian Rockies Geology Road Tours
- Visible Alberta is stunningly beautiful, but the poetry of geology is its secret language, a transcendent stratigraphy. Born out of Dale Leckie’s passion for this complex and compelling landscape, The Scenic Geology of Alberta is more than a guide to our terrestrial home: it is a cultural and scientific excursion. Rich with intelligent explanation, although not so scientifically obscure that it shuts readers out, this book collects knowledge, observation, and history. Beautifully illustrated and mapped, a companion to hikes and rambles, it will galvanize the imagination, as much a history of Alberta as it is an interpretation of rocks and land formations. – Aritha van Herk, CM, AOE, FRSC. Writer, editor, critic
- No car library is complete without a roadside guide to the geology and palaeontology, and this nice little package is the perfect reference for any trip through Alberta. Beautifully written and illustrated, it will even inspire side trips that are both interesting and education. – Philip Currie, MSc, PhD, FRSC. Professor, Dinosaur Palaeobiology