Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada

Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada

Author: Richard L. Orndorff

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Most people think of Nevada as a land of casinos and drive-in wedding chapels punctuating vast expanses of desolate desert. But at the heart of the Basin and Range province, the Silver State is also a geologist's playground, with great topographic relief


Geology Underfoot in Southern Utah

Geology Underfoot in Southern Utah

Author: Richard L. Orndorff

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Standing before any of southern Utah's enigmatic landforms, it's clear, there's a story here. This reference explores the stories behind 33 sites, some world-famous, others off the beaten path. Includes 146 black-and-white photographs, 31 maps, 37 black-and-white figures, bibliography, glossary, and index.


Geology Underfoot in Southern California

Geology Underfoot in Southern California

Author: Robert Phillip Sharp

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780878422890

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Twenty vignettes focus on particular geologic scenes, relationships, and features of southern California's active landscape.


Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley

Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley

Author: Robert Phillip Sharp

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780878423620

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Eastern California boasts the greatest dryland relief in the contiguous United States, offering a rich variety of environments and spectacular geology. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley provides an on-the-ground look at the processes sculpting the terrain in this land of extremes for everyone interested in how the earth works.


Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California

Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California

Author: David D. Alt

Publisher: Roadside Geology

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780878426706

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California's geology makes headlines when faults shift, volcanoes puff steam, and coastal bluffs fall into the sea. This book explores the state's recent rumblings and tremulous past with the aid of full color illustrations. Photographs showcase multihued rock, from red chert and green serpentinite to blue schist and gray granite. The geologic information, particularly for the Klamath Mountains, Modoc Plateau, and northern Sierra Nevada, has been updated to reflect new geologic understanding of these complex areas. Features detailed, easy to read color geologic road maps based on the 2010 Geologic Map of California.


Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park

Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park

Author: Allen F. Glazner

Publisher: Geology Underfoot

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780878425686

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While visiting more than twenty-seven amazing sites, you�ll discover why many of Yosemite�s domes shed rock shells like onion layers, what happens when a volcano erupts under a glacial lake, and why rocks seem to be almost continually tumbling from the region�s cliffs.


Roadside Geology of Nevada

Roadside Geology of Nevada

Author: Frank DeCourten

Publisher: Roadside Geology

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780878426720

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The Silver State has some of the most diverse geology in the United States, and much of it lies in plain sight thanks to the arid climate of the Great Basin. --Publisher.


Rough-Hewn Land

Rough-Hewn Land

Author: Keith Heyer Meldahl

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0520275772

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"Rough-Hewn Land tells the geologic story of the American West--the story of its rocks, rivers, mountains, earthquakes, and mineral wealth, including gold. It tells it by taking you on a 1000-mile-long field trip across the rough side of the continent from the California coast to the Rocky Mountains. This book puts you on the outcrop, geologic hammer in hand, to explore the evidence for how the spectacular, rough-hewn lands of the West came to be. When North America broke free from Eurasia and Africa some 200 million years ago, it triggered a cascade of violent geologic events that shaped the West we see today. As the west-moving continent crunched across the seabed of the ancient Pacific, islands and assorted pieces of ocean floor collected against its prow to build California--and plant gold there too. Meanwhile, mountains squeezed upward from California to Colorado, and vast quantities of molten rock seeded the crust with precious metals while spewing volcanic fire across the land. Later, the land stretched like an accordion to form the washboard-like Basin and Range province and Great Basin within it, while California began to crackle along the San Andreas fault. Throughout the West today, a near-constant drumroll of earthquakes testifies to a world still reshaping itself in response to the ceaseless movements of the Earth's tectonic plates. Rough-Hewn Land weaves these stories into the human history of the West. As we follow the adventures of John C. Frémont, Mark Twain, the Donner party, and other historic characters, we see how geologic forces have shaped human experience, just as they direct the fate of the West today"--


Geology Underfoot in Illinois

Geology Underfoot in Illinois

Author: Ray Wiggers

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780878423460

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Copious illustrations and witty, page-turning prose guide readers on geologic walking or driving tours of 37 sites in Illinois.


Hard Road West

Hard Road West

Author: Keith Heyer Meldahl

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0226519627

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Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Gold Trail, Meldahl uses the diaries and letters of the 1849 settlers to reveal how geology and topography directly affected our nations westward expansion.