Publisher's Synopsis
"Several generations of Southerners claim the Lynyrd Skynyrd song, "Sweet Home Alabama," as their anthem. The Billie Holiday hit "Stars Fell on Alabama" is another, and though an actual star didn't fall on Alabama, the state is the only place on Earth where a person has been injured by a meteorite. Another impact, this one about 80 million years ago, left the 5-mile-wide Wetumpka impact crater in the center of the state. Alabama's world-class geology, nearly as famous as its music, includes tracks of early amphibians and reptiles, fossilized bird feathers, and 2-billion-year-old mineral grains eroded from rocks now found in Africa. And lest you think Alabama is just alligator swamps and estuary mud, you can view Little River Canyon, in places 600 feet deep, atop Lookout Mountain, a broad plateau incised by waterfall-laced rivers at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains. The authors intertwine the geology with cultural stories, l
