{"id":12012,"date":"2009-01-22T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:35:33","slug":"take-a-trip-through-time-with-profs-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/take-a-trip-through-time-with-profs-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a trip through time with prof&#8217;s new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ron Blakey<\/strong>\u00a0brings the geology of Colorado Plateau down to earth in a new book.<\/p>\n<p>Blakey, an NAU geology professor, and geologist Wayne Ranney, have written<em>Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau<\/em>, an easy-to-understand showcase of the sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock roughly centered on the Four Corners area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Colorado Plateau has world-class fossils and I saw a need for an overview of the geographic record that everyone could enjoy,&#8221; Blakey said.<\/p>\n<p>Blakey, who spent about 20 years creating maps of the region, shares them in the guide-like book. It features 70 maps that illustrate environmental shifts, cultural happenings and directions to archaeological sites and spectacular rocks.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 photographs by Blakey and Ranney accompany an accessible text that explains the area&#8217;s history. Topics include dinosaur fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old, or the far-reaching sand dune landscape that carries water through the vast region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have an ancient photography record, but the integrity of the Colorado Plateau&#8217;s story is locked up in the rock record,&#8221; Blakey said. &#8220;It allows us to interpret the ancient landscapes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Published by the Grand Canyon Association in fall 2008, Blakey said\u00a0<em>Ancient Landscapes<\/em>\u00a0is heading into its second printing.<\/p>\n<p>For information go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandcanyon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">grandcanyon.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/take-a-trip-through-time-with-profs-new-book\/\">Ron Blakey\u00a0brings the geology of Colorado Plateau down to earth in a new book. Blakey, an NAU geology professor, and geologist Wayne Ranney, have writtenAncient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, an easy-to-understand showcase of the sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock roughly centered on the Four Corners area. &#8220;The Colorado Plateau has world-class fossils and I&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":12013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}