Geologic Trips Sierra Nevada
Author : Ted Konigsmark
Publisher : Bored Feet Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Geology
ISBN : 9780966131659
Author : Ted Konigsmark
Publisher : Bored Feet Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Geology
ISBN : 9780966131659
Author : Vali Memeti
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813700345
"This comprehensive field guide takes you on a six-day, west-to-east geologic journey across the Mesozoic magmatic arc of the central Sierra Nevada in California. It summarizes field, structural, geochemistry, and geochronology data collected on individual intrusions, basement terranes intruded by these intrusions, Mesozoic volcanic-sedimentary sections, and from several Sierra Nevada-wide datasets"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Mary Hill
Publisher :
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Mary Hill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520936949
Writing with verve and clarity, Mary Hill tells the story of the magnificent Sierra Nevada—the longest, highest, and most spectacular mountain range in the contiguous United States. Hill takes us from the time before the land which would be California even existed, through the days of roaring volcanoes, violent earthquakes, and chilling ice sheets, to the more recent history of the Sierra's early explorers and the generations of adventuresome souls who followed. The author introduces the rocks of the Sierra Nevada, which tell the mountains' tale, and explains how nature's forces, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, faulting, erosion, and glaciation formed the range's world-renowned scenery and mineral wealth, including gold. For thirty years, the first edition of Geology of the Sierra Nevada has been the definitive guide to the Sierra Nevada's geological history for nature lovers, travelers, hikers, campers, and armchair explorers. This new edition offers new chapters and sidebars and incorporates the concept of plate tectonics throughout the text. * Written in easy-to-understand language for a wide audience. * Gives detailed information on where to view outstanding Sierra Nevada geology in some of the world's most beloved natural treasures and national parks, including Yosemite. * Provides specific information on places to see glaciers and glacial deposits, caves, and exhibits of gold mines and mining equipment, many from Gold Rush times. * Superbly illustrated with 117 new color illustrations, 16 halftones, 39 line illustrations, and 12 maps, and also features an easy-to-use, interactive key for identifying rocks and a glossary of geological terms.
Author : Josiah Dwight Whitney
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Craig H. Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520289641
From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Where there was gold to be mined (and where there was not) redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn’t) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and how it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country. The Mountains That Remade America combines geology with history to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced daily life in the United States in the past and continue to do so today. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and contemporary society, Craig H. Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast impact this mountain range has had on the American West.
Author : Paul C. Bateman
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Batholiths
ISBN :
A study of the structure, composition, and pre-Tertiary history of the Sierra Nevada batholith in the Mariposa 1 by 2 quadrangle.
Author : Waldemar Lindgren
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : David R. Lageson
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813700021
Author : Clarence King
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842-1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here with unfading brilliance are his accounts of scaling such mountains as Tyndall, Shasta, and Whitney. The chapters on the Yosemite Valley and surrounding High Sierras were written while he was surveying the boundaries of a newly designated national park. There are also delightful vignettes of western characters, including a Sierra artist and a family of Pike County hog farmers. &