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Geology Department Head's Book Wins Nemba Award
Department Head Ron Morton’s newest book "Ancient Earth and the First Ancestors: A Cultural and Geological Journey" (with Carl Gawboy) won the Northeastern Minnesota book award for the best general nonfiction book of 2011. Crafted as a dialogue between and Ojibwe elder and a geologist, this book literally follows their real-time travel and conversation around Minnesota's major geological formations. (read more)
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