NEW YORK (AP) ? Television viewers were once called couch potatoes. Many are becoming more active while watching now, judging by the findings in a new report that illustrates the explosive growth in people who watch TV while connected to social media on smartphones and tablets.
The Nielsen company said that one in three people using Twitter in June sent messages at some point about the content of television shows, an increase of 27 percent from only five months earlier. And that was before the Olympics, which was probably the first big event to illustrate the extent of second screen usage.
"Twitter has become the second screen experience for television," said Deirdre Bannon, vice president of social media at Nielsen.
Social networking is becoming so pervasive that the study found nearly a third of people aged 18-to-24 reported using the sites while in the bathroom.
An estimated 41 percent of tablet owners and 38 percent of smartphone owners used their device while also watching television at least once a day, Nielsen said.
That percentage hasn't changed much; in fact, 40 percent of smartphone owners reported daily dual screen usage a year earlier, Nielsen said. The difference is that far more people own these devices and they are using them for a longer period of time. The company estimated that Americans spent a total of 157.5 billion minutes on mobile devices in July 2012, nearly doubling the 81.8 billion the same month a year earlier.
"There are big and interesting implications," Bannon said. "I think both television networks and advertisers are onto it."
The social media can provide networks with real-time feedback on what they are doing. The performance of moderators at presidential debates this fall was watched more closely than perhaps ever before, because people were instantly taking on Twitter to provide their own critiques.
It also makes for some conflicting information: Twitter buzzed with complaints last summer about NBC's policy of airing many Olympics events from London on tape delay, yet ratings for the prime-time Olympics telecast soared past expectations.
The increase in people watching television and commenting about it online would seem to run counter to another big trend this fall: more people recording programs and watching them at a later hour. Those contrary trends both increase the value of live event programming like awards shows or sporting events.
The Nielsen study also found that 35 percent of people who used tablets while watching TV looked up information online about the program they were watching. A quarter of tablet owners said they researched coupons or deals for products they saw advertised on television
As rapid as the use of social media while on television is growing in the United States, it already lags behind other countries. Nielsen said that 63 percent of people in the Middle East or Africa report using social media while on TV, and 52 percent of people in Latin America.
Storms keep hammering the West Coast and another storm headed for California could result in disaster. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
By Terry Collins, The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO --?Northern California is bracing for more stormy weather this weekend after heavy rain and strong winds knocked out power to thousands, delayed flights, tied up traffic and flooded some roadways.
After the second in a series of storms slammed the region Friday, scattered showers are expected Saturday before a third storm strikes Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
A flash flood watch will remain in effect for most of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Santa Cruz Mountains throughout the weekend. The storms could cause rock and mud slides in areas already saturated and affected by wildfires this summer, said NWS forecaster Diana Henderson in Monterey.
"It's not a super storm by any measure, but this is pretty significant," Henderson said. "We should see periods of moderate to heavy rains."
Friday's stormy weather may be behind the death of a Pacific Gas & Electric worker in West Sacramento who was killed after his truck crashed into a traffic signal pole during the stormy weather.
Friday's storm delayed flights at San Francisco International Airport and knocked down a large tree that smashed a car and blocked a busy street for hours in the city's affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood.
The North Bay was seemingly hit the hardest, as parts of Sonoma County received more than 7 inches of rain and areas in Napa County received nearly 6 inches, Henderson said.
With rain expected all weekend long, Tony Negro, a contractor from Penngrove, Calif., in Sonoma County, said he is worried about water flooding his workshop.
"I'm on my way to get some sand bags," he said.
Thousands of people were without power in that area after an outage that also affected the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The suspension span of the bridge was briefly in the dark as traffic was backed up longer than usual because of rain and strong wind gusts.
Also, a mudslide shut down a stretch of Highway 84 east of Fremont, the California Highway Patrol reported. There was no estimate on when it would reopen.
In Sacramento, an empty big-rig jackknifed in the southbound lanes and struck the median divider on Interstate 5 south of downtown Friday morning, the CHP said.
"I would definitely say it's weather-related. The reports came in that he hit a water puddle and hydroplaned and couldn't correct," CHP Officer Mike Bradley said. "A lot of high-profile vehicles, especially the lighter ones, are getting windblown and having some problems maintaining their lane."
No one was injured in the crash on I-5, California's main north-south highway. But a second vehicle also was damaged and had to be towed, while workers cleaned up diesel fuel spilled from the tractor-trailer.
In West Sacramento, police say wet conditions may have been a factor when a PG&E worker died after he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a traffic pole. PG&E workers at the scene told KCRA-TV that the driver had been working overtime and was returning from Clarksburg in Yolo County.
In Los Angeles, conditions were wet and gloomy as downtown skyscrapers disappeared in low-hanging clouds.
Elsewhere in the West, a state of emergency was declared in Reno, Sparks and Washoe County in Nevada due to expected flooding as a storm packing heavy rain and strong winds swept through the area. Reno city spokeswoman Michele Anderson said public servants would be working overtime through the weekend to control what's expected to be the worst flooding there since 2005. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning along the Truckee River.
The weather also prompted cancellations of Christmas parades and tree lightings in Sparks and Truckee, just across the border from California.
Also, a storm rushed through southern Oregon this week, lingering inland over the Rogue Valley and dropping record rainfall. It largely spared coastal Curry County and its southernmost city, Brookings, which were still recovering from a storm this month.
"We are still vigilant for landslides and road closures and trees down, but so far ? knock on wood ? we are still good to go," Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said.
Forecasters said the region should expect more storms over the next few days.?
Storms may be hitting the West Coast but temperatures are in the 60s in the South, marking a warm start to winter. The Weather Channel's Kim Cunningham has more.
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The lesser prairie chicken could get listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.
By Ros Krasny, Reuters
WASHINGTON -- A move by U.S. authorities to consider placing a small grassland bird native to parts of the oil and gas belt on the Endangered Species List has drawn the ire of some Western lawmakers.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday announced a plan to consider having the lesser prairie chicken listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.
The lesser prairie chicken is a medium-sized, gray-brown grouse, smaller and paler than the greater prairie chicken, its close relative.
Once found in abundant numbers across much of Southeastern Colorado, Eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, Western Oklahoma and Western Kansas, the lesser prairie-chicken's historical range of native grasslands and prairies has been reduced by an estimated 84 percent, the service said.
Lawmakers in major oil and gas producing districts immediately cried foul.
"A listing will have permanent economic consequences for the people of Texas who live and work in the Permian Basin and the Texas Panhandle," said Representative Michael Conaway, a Republican.
Conaway's sprawling West Texas district produces much of the state's oil and about one-quarter of its gas.
Protecting the lesser prairie-chicken "could drive ranching families and energy producers out of business," said Republican Representative Randy Neugebauer, whose district in East-Central Texas is a large agricultural area.
New Mexico's Steve Pearce, chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, said federal species regulation was being "driven by lawyers for extreme interest groups."
"Listing cannot come soon enough for the lesser prairie chicken," said Taylor Jones, endangered species advocate for WildEarth Guardians, a Santa Fe environmental group that at one point sued the federal government in an attempt to protect the birds from oil and gas drilling.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has opened a 90-day comment period on the lesser prairie-chicken and is seeking input from the public and from the scientific community before making its final decision. Four public hearings will be held in February.
In the meantime, a number of state and federal agencies are working on a voluntary conservation planning effort to conserve the bird's habitat.
"Regardless of whether the lesser prairie-chicken ultimately requires protection under the ESA, its decline is a signal that our native grasslands are in trouble," said Benjamin Tuggle, Regional Director for the Service's Southwest Region.
"We know that these grasslands support not only dozens of native migratory bird and wildlife species, but also farmers, ranchers and local communities across the region," Tuggle said.
Lesser prairie chickens are considered "vulnerable," a step short of endangered, by the UK-based International Union for Conservation of Nature, whose "red list" tracks the conservation status of various species worldwide.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2012) ? Two new studies appearing in the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences show that vitamin D may be a vital component for the cognitive health of women as they age.
Higher vitamin D dietary intake is associated with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to research conducted by a team led by Cedric Annweiler, MD, PhD, at the Angers University Hospital in France.
Similarly, investigators led by Yelena Slinin, MD, MS, at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis found that low vitamin D levels among older women are associated with higher odds of global cognitive impairment and a higher risk of global cognitive decline.
Slinin's group based its analysis on 6,257 community-dwelling older women who had vitamin D levels measured during the Study of Osteopathic Fractures and whose cognitive function was tested by the Mini-Mental State Examination and/or Trail Making Test Part B.
Very low levels of vitamin D (less than 10 nanograms per milliliter of blood serum) among older women were associated with higher odds of global cognitive impairment at baseline, and low vitamin D levels (less than 20 nanograms per milliliter) among cognitively-impaired women were associated with a higher risk of incident global cognitive decline, as measured by performance on the Mini-Mental State Examination.
Annweieler's team's findings were based on data from 498 community-dwelling women who participated in the Toulouse cohort of the Epidemiology of Osteoporosis study.
Among this population, women who developed Alzheimer's disease had lower baseline vitamin D intakes (an average of 50.3 micrograms per week) than those who developed other dementias (an average of 63.6 micrograms per week) or no dementia at all (an average of 59.0 micrograms per week).
These reports follow an article published in the Journals of Gerontology Series A earlier this year that found that both men and women who don't get enough vitamin D -- either from diet, supplements, or sun exposure -- may be at increased risk of developing mobility limitations and disability.
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Dollar the Most At-Risk of Breakout in Years and Yet?
EuroRally Stalls Once Again Before EUR/USD Can Overtake 1.3000
Australian Dollar: RBA Carries Top Event Risk of Central Bank Meets
Japanese Yen: Policy Officials Pass Currency Responsibility Back to Risk
British Pound Little Moved on the Week, Can the BoE Shake Things Up?
Canadian Dollar: USDCAD Implied Volatility Slowly Picks Up from Record Low
Gold?s Chances to Overtake 1800 in 2012 May be Over
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Dollar the Most At-Risk of Breakout in Years and Yet?
The dollar (ticker =USDollar) managed briefly to push its way to its highest level of the week Friday and temporarily overtook the closely watched 10,000-figure. However, the safe haven currency was ultimately unable to hold this technical progress as capital markets refused to slip and risk trends trailed off quietly into the weekend. As the world?s reserve currency ? and paradoxically hosting the greatest threat to global financial (the US Fiscal Cliff) ? thegreenback requires considerable motivationto extend its bullish run from mid-September amid a dwindling speculative crowd. That is quite the quandary because the biggest risk to stability is anchored and keeping the currency distracted. Looking ahead to the new week, dollar bulls need a swell in volatility and tumble in risk assets. There is plenty of event risk to stir activity for individual currencies, but little to stir the moreprofound fundamental themes. Fiscal Cliff headlines will continue to draw traders? attention (whether bullish, bearish or neutral). Without an overwhelming risk move, the dollar may need to wait until the following week when the Fed convenes.
EuroRally Stalls Once Again Before EUR/USD Can Overtake 1.3000
The Euro-area headlines were busy Friday, but the most profound update was released until the speculative community had already wound down for the weekend. Trying to find its way to the front of the pack, ratings agency Moody?s announced that it hadcut both the European Stability Mechanism?s (ESM) and European Financial Stability Facility?s (EFSF) ?AAA? top credit ratings. The funding programs are integral to the Troika?s efforts to stabilize the Eurozone?s financial markets. Evidence that the areas of funding (rescue programs and countries) invites the risk that political will may not be the only impediment to a full recovery. Expect this after-hours release to play through early next week. Further immediate concern for fundamental traders next week will be the Eurozone and European Union Finance Ministers separate meetings as well as any news related to the Greek Debt Management Agency?s efforts to draw interest for the bond buyback (an effort that will deliver current, private bond holders instant losses). The ECB decision will likely be a focal point, but they are unlikely to move beyond OMT.
Australian Dollar: RBA Carries Top Event Risk of Central Bank MeetsDespite the Australian dollar?s penchant for leveraging risk trends into volatility, AUDUSD proved to be one of the more reserved pairings this past week. In fact, its activity level (10-day ATR) was the lowest we have seen since 2007 ? yet, not that unusual given the general state of volatility measures across the market. That quiet will be difficult to sustain, however, heading into next week as the market is already pricing infireworks from the RBA. Though we haven?t seen much change in central bank rhetoric or data recently, overnight swaps are pricing in a clear bias for an RBA rate cut come Tuesday. With an 83 percentprobability of a 25bp cut, a move can get the Aussie moving?and so could a hold.
Japanese Yen: Policy Officials Pass Currency Responsibility Back to Risk
It has become something of a running joke that Japanese policy officials couldn?t influence their currency even if they acted upon the market with heavy rounds of stimulus or direct FX intervention. Yet, over the past three weeks, market participants have started to show a little more respect for their commitment to devalue the local currency and help support growth. LDP Opposition Lead Abe has been integral to the effort by voicing a commitment to escalate the issue to the point that policy effort could offset risk flows, repatriation and other currents of capital flow ? that he could potentially rescind the BoJ?s independence and embark on unlimited stimulus. That threat was worth hundreds of pips on yen crosses, but the drive may be over. This past weekAbe recanted his BoJ override. So, unless risk appetite drives the yen down,it may be oversold?
British Pound Little Moved on the Week, Can the BoE Shake Things Up?
While the broader FX markets were little moved, the sterling stood out for its lack of influence. The currency has struggled to rouse its own volatility ? much less trend ? and there are few things that can unseat that complacency. One of the few events that carry the necessary influence is theBank of England monetary policy meetings. The central bank has fallen far behind the pack in terms of stimulus, which is unusual given Governor King?s vocal concerns and the government?s dedication to austerity. Market?s are expecting no change to the asset purchase program, but the discuss of different programs may start to pop up. If they do, expect the sterling to tumble.
Canadian Dollar: USDCAD Implied Volatility Slowly Picks Up from Record Low
We already know USDCAD to be one of the most resistant to trend amongst the non-managed and highly liquid pairings. However, in these generally mute market conditions, it seems even this quiet pair is managing incredible extremes. This past week, the one-week implied volatility (expectations for market movement) for USDCAD slowly advanced from itslowest level on records going back nearly 13 years. That passive view was deserved given the top concern facing the global markets (Fiscal Cliff) would impact both the US and Canadian currency to similar magnitudes. Yet, extremes do not last; and the Canadian dollar will have a chance to stir volatility in the immediate future. The first nudge higher came this past week with 3Q trade and GDP figures.Coming up we have the BoC and Canadian employment data. It is worth mentioning that we haven?t seen a weekly move over 200 pips from this pair in nearly a year. Is it overdue?
Gold?s Chances to Overtake 1800 in 2012 May be Over
Through the past week, gold was the stand out amongst the various ?high profile? assets. While US equities extended their slow climb, the euro suffered some volatility following the Troika?s approval of Greek aid distribution and the dollar retrenched into congestion despite the ticking countdown to the Fiscal Cliff; gold had clearly topped the market for activity. Futures volume through the past week and month werethe highest seen since the period through June 1. Further, the pickup in trading and a unique consistency of trend led the metal to thebiggest weekly drop since June 22. For all intents and purposes, an active market. However, when we look at the CBOE?s gold volatility index, we find expected volatility levels at series lows. Through all the activity, gold hasheld backfrom developing a meaningful trend (bullish or bearish). We have to consider the metal slid despite a stalled dollar and escalation of US fiscal fears. At this pace, little could drive us back to 1800 before year end.
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AiG Performance of Manufacturing Index (NOV)
45.2
Manufacturing in Australia continues to shrink as China continues slowing; RBA rate later this week
21:45
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NZD
Terms of Trade Index (QoQ) (3Q)
-1.5%
-2.6%
NZ export drop expected to weigh
23:30
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TD Securities Inflation (MoM) (NOV)
0.1%
Australian inflation continues to be stable, giving RBA more room for easing policy
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AUD
TD Securities Inflation (YoY) (NOV)
2.4%
23:50
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Capital Spending (3Q)
4.4%
7.7%
Japanese 3Q investment spending growing; need to wait for elections for more direction
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6.6%
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Lloyds Business Barometer (NOV)
17
British index moderate, recovering
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Hometrack Housing Survey (MoM) (NOV)
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BoE-watched survey still weak, may prompt BoE shift towards housing market assets
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Company Operating Profit (QoQ) (NOV)
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Australian measures of businesses continue to show weakness
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Consumer confidence weaker
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55.5
Services still growing as new economy stresses tertiary sector and move away from manufacturing
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HSBC Manufacturing PMI (NOV)
50.4
49.5
Expected to follow official data higher
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RBA Commodity Price Index (NOV)
87.3
Commodity decline faster than that of Aussie may forecast another major global economic decline
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Swiss consumer confidence still growing
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46.1
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45.5
Collection of European manufacturing sector data still shows slowdown as GDP later this week expected to report continued recession
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British recession seeing moderate recovery as end of austerity leads to more confidence
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CLASSIC SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE?EMERGING MARKETS 18:00 GMTSCANDIES CURRENCIES 18:00 GMT
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USD/MXN
USD/TRY
USD/ZAR
USD/HKD
USD/SGD
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USD/DKK
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15.5900
2.0000
9.2080
7.8165
1.3650
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7.5800
6.1875
6.1150
Resist 1
15.0000
1.9000
9.1900
7.8075
1.3250
Resist 1
6.8155
5.9190
5.8200
Spot
12.9667
1.7872
8.9088
7.7503
1.2202
Spot
6.6608
5.7442
5.6733
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12.5000
1.6500
8.5650
7.7490
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5.5840
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1.5725
6.5575
7.7450
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5.3350
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1.6105
83.23
0.9353
1.0003
1.0508
0.8275
108.29
133.37
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1.3064
1.6082
83.04
0.9335
0.9988
1.0488
0.8257
108.00
133.04
Resist. 1
1.3038
1.6059
82.86
0.9317
0.9974
1.0468
0.8239
107.70
132.72
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1.6013
82.48
0.9281
0.9944
1.0428
0.8204
107.11
132.06
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1.2934
1.5967
82.10
0.9245
0.9914
1.0388
0.8169
106.52
131.41
Support 2
1.2908
1.5944
81.92
0.9227
0.9900
1.0368
0.8151
106.22
131.08
Support 3
1.2882
1.5921
81.73
0.9209
0.9885
1.0348
0.8133
105.93
130.76
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Cracking Grand Canyon's rock codePublic release date: 30-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
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New special paper from the Geological Society of America
Boulder, CO, USA In a new book published by The Geological Society of America, editors J. Michael Timmons of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and Karl E. Karlstrom of the University of New Mexico, along with several individual chapter authors, describe the rock record of Grand Canyon and illustrate its complexity. For them, Grand Canyon, one of the premier geologic landscapes in the world, carries within its structure intriguing mysteries of time and space.
Compared to the vast history of Earth's evolution, the U.S. Grand Canyon, carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries, is believed to be relatively young. Yet, according to Timmons and Karlstrom, the canyon's rock record provides a unique sense of the "vastness of deep time."
Timmons, Karlstrom, and introductory chapter co-author Laura J. Crossey of the University of New Mexico write that while Grand Canyon is a "superb geologic laboratory for understanding geologic history," there is "more time that is not recorded by the rocks in Grand Canyon than that is recorded."
Missing episodes reflect erosion, and to comprehend the nature and extent of that erosion is to begin to put the pieces together to tell the complete story of the canyon. As Karlstrom and Timmons write, "The geologic record has been described as a 'fishnet,' where the twine of the net is the rock record and the holes are the time missing." The missing time, the holes, are called "unconformities."
The unconformities, including what geologists, beginning with John Wesley Powell in 1875, call Grand Canyon's Great Unconformity, were created by past geologic events, such as "vanished mountain ranges, cryptic uplift events, and unsung earthquakes."
In the volume's introduction, Timmons, Karlstrom, and Crossey describe the record that can be seen in the canyon walls -- three distinct series: (1) 270- to 525-million-year-old horizontal sedimentary rock layers that make up the upper strata throughout the canyon and represent multiple episodes of marine incursion and retreat from the continental interior; (2) 750,000-year-old to 1.2-million-year-old tilted rock layers, well preserved in fault blocks of eastern Grand Canyon, called the Grand Canyon Supergroup, revealing discrete episodes of sedimentation and tectonism; and (3) the oldest rocks, in the depths of the canyon -- the igneous and metamorphic rocks that record the formation and modification of the region's continental crust, 1,660 to 1,840 million years ago (thus, the book's subtitle: "Two Billion Years of Earth's History").
Nine chapters and an afterword continue to detail the visible as well as the no longer visible. Illustrated with color figures and photographs and accompanied by the most detailed geologic map of eastern Grand Canyon to date, this GSA Special Paper provides an easy-to-understand summary of the geologic stories encoded by rocks and landscapes of Grand Canyon.
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Individual copies of the volume may be purchased through The Geological Society of America online bookstore, http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=9&pID=SPE489, or by contacting GSA Sales and Service, gsaservice@geosociety.org.
Book editors of earth science journals/publications may request a review copy by contacting April Leo, aleo@geosociety.org.
Grand Canyon Geology: Two Billion Years of Earth's History
J. Michael Timmons and Karl E. Karlstrom (editors)
Geological Society of America Special Paper 489
SPE489, 156 p., $80.00; Member price $64.00
ISBN 978-0-8137-2489-8
www.geosociety.org
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New special paper from the Geological Society of America
Boulder, CO, USA In a new book published by The Geological Society of America, editors J. Michael Timmons of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and Karl E. Karlstrom of the University of New Mexico, along with several individual chapter authors, describe the rock record of Grand Canyon and illustrate its complexity. For them, Grand Canyon, one of the premier geologic landscapes in the world, carries within its structure intriguing mysteries of time and space.
Compared to the vast history of Earth's evolution, the U.S. Grand Canyon, carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries, is believed to be relatively young. Yet, according to Timmons and Karlstrom, the canyon's rock record provides a unique sense of the "vastness of deep time."
Timmons, Karlstrom, and introductory chapter co-author Laura J. Crossey of the University of New Mexico write that while Grand Canyon is a "superb geologic laboratory for understanding geologic history," there is "more time that is not recorded by the rocks in Grand Canyon than that is recorded."
Missing episodes reflect erosion, and to comprehend the nature and extent of that erosion is to begin to put the pieces together to tell the complete story of the canyon. As Karlstrom and Timmons write, "The geologic record has been described as a 'fishnet,' where the twine of the net is the rock record and the holes are the time missing." The missing time, the holes, are called "unconformities."
The unconformities, including what geologists, beginning with John Wesley Powell in 1875, call Grand Canyon's Great Unconformity, were created by past geologic events, such as "vanished mountain ranges, cryptic uplift events, and unsung earthquakes."
In the volume's introduction, Timmons, Karlstrom, and Crossey describe the record that can be seen in the canyon walls -- three distinct series: (1) 270- to 525-million-year-old horizontal sedimentary rock layers that make up the upper strata throughout the canyon and represent multiple episodes of marine incursion and retreat from the continental interior; (2) 750,000-year-old to 1.2-million-year-old tilted rock layers, well preserved in fault blocks of eastern Grand Canyon, called the Grand Canyon Supergroup, revealing discrete episodes of sedimentation and tectonism; and (3) the oldest rocks, in the depths of the canyon -- the igneous and metamorphic rocks that record the formation and modification of the region's continental crust, 1,660 to 1,840 million years ago (thus, the book's subtitle: "Two Billion Years of Earth's History").
Nine chapters and an afterword continue to detail the visible as well as the no longer visible. Illustrated with color figures and photographs and accompanied by the most detailed geologic map of eastern Grand Canyon to date, this GSA Special Paper provides an easy-to-understand summary of the geologic stories encoded by rocks and landscapes of Grand Canyon.
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Individual copies of the volume may be purchased through The Geological Society of America online bookstore, http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=9&pID=SPE489, or by contacting GSA Sales and Service, gsaservice@geosociety.org.
Book editors of earth science journals/publications may request a review copy by contacting April Leo, aleo@geosociety.org.
Grand Canyon Geology: Two Billion Years of Earth's History
J. Michael Timmons and Karl E. Karlstrom (editors)
Geological Society of America Special Paper 489
SPE489, 156 p., $80.00; Member price $64.00
ISBN 978-0-8137-2489-8
www.geosociety.org
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