THE GRAND CANYON TIME MACHINE
THE GRAND CANYON TIME MACHINE: A Comprehensive Interpretive Portrayal takes the reader on a virtual sightseeing, educational jaunt along the South Rim’s Grand Canyon Village sector. This traveler’s guidebook covers all aspects of the canyon: geology, natural and human history, including six addenda on the relevant subject matter (i.e., facts about the Colorado Plateau, a lexicon of geologic terms, and things to do and places to see in the village). Using the so-named interpretive walking timeline trail as a means to disseminate information to the reader, the text presents common details in an uncommon way. Specifically, an informal style of writing that changes the academics of geoscience, natural and human history into a casual parlance employed by many guides addressing tour groups. This informative and factual text, therefore, feigns its own tour along the South Rim (near Grand Canyon Village) only in a literary sense while explaining details without sermonizing.
The diverse subject matter is broken down into segments so that the reader is not overwhelmed by too much information based on any topic. For example, the geological aspects of the canyon are presented at various overlooks. Between these segments, new subject matter is introduced (also segmented). The following Table of Contents demonstrates this feature of the book. Given the layout of the text, especially, the piecemeal presentation of information The Grand Canyon Time Machine is a reader-friendly text that engages and enlightens readers.
While there are scores of books written about the Grand Canyon, this book in the guise of an actual tour on the rim engenders a unique approach to learning and will attract a wide reading audience. Thus, an interpretive account of essential information (i.e., geology, human, and natural history), as well as incidental information about hiking trails, as well as helpful tourist information (i.e., places to visit, restaurants, and lodging).
Employing a National Park Service heuristic teaching standard based on an interpretive explanation, the how-what-where-when-why aspects of the Grand Canyon are presented throughout this comprehensive text. Accordingly, an educational tour de force that thoroughly explains all the essential information based on the motif of a time machine and time travelers walking along the rim.
While there are scores of books written about the Grand Canyon, this book in the guise of an actual tour on the rim engenders a unique approach to learning and will attract a wide reading audience. Thus, an interpretive account of essential information (i.e., geology, human, and natural history), as well as incidental information about hiking trails, as well as helpful tourist information (i.e., places to visit, restaurants, and lodging).
Employing a National Park Service heuristic teaching standard based on an interpretive explanation, the how-what-where-when-why aspects of the Grand Canyon are presented throughout this comprehensive text. Accordingly, an educational tour de force that thoroughly explains all the essential information based on the motif of a time machine and time travelers walking along the rim.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE:
A Tangible Time Machine
Chapter 1:
THE TRAIL OF TIME
Chapter 2:
THROUGH THE PERCEPTION OF OTHERS (Human History, Part 1)
Chapter 3:
THE GRAND CANYONʼS UPPER FORMATIONS (Geology, Part 1)
Chapter 4:
FOSSILS
Chapter 5:
CRITTERS, ECOLOGY & ECOZONES
Chapter 6:
PEOPLE WHO LIVED INSIDE THE CANYON (Human History, Part 2)
Chapter 7:
PREHISTORIC TO HISTORIC CLASSIFICATION (Human History, Part 3)
Chapter 8:
THE GEOSCIENCE STUDY OF ROCKS
Chapter 9:
A GRAND CANYON CREATION Fairytale
Chapter 10:
THE CONQUISTADORS! (Human History, Part 4)
Chapter 11:
BELOW THE CAKE LAYERS––THE PEDESTAL
Chapter 12:
EL LIMESTONE PATIO
Chapter 13:
THE GRAND CANYON SUPERGROUP (A Continuing Explanation)
Chapter 14:
JOHY WESLEY POWELL––First Through The Grand (Human History, Part 5a)
Chapter 15:
THE MECHANISM OF SUBDUCTION & UPLIFT
Chapter 16:
JOHY WESLEY POWELL: First Through The Grand (Human History, Part 5b)
Chapter 17:
GO HIKE THE CANYON!
Chapter 18:
CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE OF THE GRAND CANYON (Human History, Part 6)
Chapter 19:
AT TRAIL’S END––VAYA CON ADVENTURE!
Addendum I:
AFTER THE TOUR TOURIST STUFF: Things To Do & Places to See
Addendum II:
GEOLOGICAL DATES
Addendum III:
THE SPLENDOR OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU
Addendum IV:
THE OLD CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY
Addendum V:
WHICH DRAINAGE INITIALLY GOT THE JOB DONE?
Addendum VI:
LEXICON OF GEOLOGY: An Essential Vocabulary
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