The Monterey Formation

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Summary: The Biography of a Rock Formation
Review: Even though I've been years out of grad school and spend most of my geoexperience teaching earth science to 9th graders, I had to get this book, knowing that a lot of it would be over the top of my rusty geobrain. I live in SoCal and have experience with the Monterey Formation and other time contemporaneous formations. This book is nothing less than the biography of a rock formation and the most thorough book I've seen written about one rock formation. This book is not for the casual browser. If you haven't had at least Geo 101, stay away. My main complaint is with the price. I know this book has a limited audience and the company is probably charging what the market will bear, but how about a bigger break on the paperback edition. With lower prices on the paperbacks, maybe textbooks and technical books would have a wider audience.