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Offers a geologic travelogue of California's unusual soils and land forms and their associated plants - including serpentines, carbonate rocks, salt marshes, salt flats, and vernal pools - demonstrating along the way how geology shapes plant life.

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Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: How Geology Shapes Plant Life Chapter 1. Land Forms and Plant Life Chapter 2. Plants and Their Soils Chapter 3. The Serpentine Story Chapter 4. Other Strange Plant-Soil Relationships Chapter 5. Plant Distribution over Space and Time Chapter 6. Human Influences Epilogue: Geology Gone Wild Glossary Exploring California's Geology and Plant Life References Index

Introduction to California Soils and Plants

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 17/09/2006
      ISBN13: 9780520233720, 978-0520233720
      ISBN10: 0520233727

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a geologic travelogue of California's unusual soils and land forms and their associated plants - including serpentines, carbonate rocks, salt marshes, salt flats, and vernal pools - demonstrating along the way how geology shapes plant life.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: How Geology Shapes Plant Life Chapter 1. Land Forms and Plant Life Chapter 2. Plants and Their Soils Chapter 3. The Serpentine Story Chapter 4. Other Strange Plant-Soil Relationships Chapter 5. Plant Distribution over Space and Time Chapter 6. Human Influences Epilogue: Geology Gone Wild Glossary Exploring California's Geology and Plant Life References Index

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