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There is much more for children to discover about Ohio than first meets the eye. , by geologist Charles Ferguson Barker, takes young readers underground to reveal the fascinating story of Ohios geology. Barker presents this story through colorful illustrations, sending his readers down the Ohio Timepike and back a billion years to when the earth under Ohio split, creating faults that cause the earthquakes felt today. He tells of colliding continents that pushed up mountains taller than the Rockies and of the tremendous impact of the Ice Age, which profoundly altered the landscape. He shows fossil coral and shells, evidence of the tropical seas that once covered the state.