There's another McPhee about mountains- Rising from the Plains- which addresses the paradigm shift in geological theory when plate techtonics reexplained orogeny in a more elegant way than the old theory (which had a whole lot of handwavium in the mix: "because geosynclines!") and shook up petroleum geologists. His Control of Nature is one of my Big Three recommendations, along with LeGuin's The Dispossessed and Pratchett's Nation.
I'd love to see Swedish mountains; my closest approximation so far was the headwaters of the Dee, which is in that belt of red granite which I think is also in Scandinavia and Iceland and Wikipedia suggests is the surface expression of the Caledonian Orogeny.
Julia, having mostly seen various basalts lately and gets a bit bored with that geodrama
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Date: 2012-07-07 06:16 pm (UTC)I'd love to see Swedish mountains; my closest approximation so far was the headwaters of the Dee, which is in that belt of red granite which I think is also in Scandinavia and Iceland and Wikipedia suggests is the surface expression of the Caledonian Orogeny.
Julia, having mostly seen various basalts lately and gets a bit bored with that geodrama