Author: DAVID C. ANTONUCCI
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625451200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Unlock the secrets of Lake Tahoe's fascinating geological history in this immersive exploration. From the mighty Sierra Nevada's birth pangs to the crystal-clear waters that cradle it today, delve into the millennia-long saga of the lake's formation. We unveil the dramatic forces that sculpted this iconic landscape, weaving together tectonic upheavals, glacial advances, and volcanic eruptions that created Lake Tahoe and its surroundings. As you traverse the region's ancient granite peaks and azure depths, you'll uncover the profound influence of geological processes on the environment and human history. Readers will learn about the many prominent points of geologic interest and discover their location and creation processes. Author David C. Antonucci's expertise bridges the gap between complex academic insight and plain language explanations, making Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin a must-read for scientists, nature enthusiasts, visitors, and curious minds alike. Whether you're a seasoned geology enthusiast or simply a lover of breathtaking landscapes, this book offers a rare opportunity to witness the Earth's tumultuous past through the lens of one of its most awe-inspiring natural wonders.
Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin
Author: DAVID C. ANTONUCCI
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625451200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Unlock the secrets of Lake Tahoe's fascinating geological history in this immersive exploration. From the mighty Sierra Nevada's birth pangs to the crystal-clear waters that cradle it today, delve into the millennia-long saga of the lake's formation. We unveil the dramatic forces that sculpted this iconic landscape, weaving together tectonic upheavals, glacial advances, and volcanic eruptions that created Lake Tahoe and its surroundings. As you traverse the region's ancient granite peaks and azure depths, you'll uncover the profound influence of geological processes on the environment and human history. Readers will learn about the many prominent points of geologic interest and discover their location and creation processes. Author David C. Antonucci's expertise bridges the gap between complex academic insight and plain language explanations, making Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin a must-read for scientists, nature enthusiasts, visitors, and curious minds alike. Whether you're a seasoned geology enthusiast or simply a lover of breathtaking landscapes, this book offers a rare opportunity to witness the Earth's tumultuous past through the lens of one of its most awe-inspiring natural wonders.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625451200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Unlock the secrets of Lake Tahoe's fascinating geological history in this immersive exploration. From the mighty Sierra Nevada's birth pangs to the crystal-clear waters that cradle it today, delve into the millennia-long saga of the lake's formation. We unveil the dramatic forces that sculpted this iconic landscape, weaving together tectonic upheavals, glacial advances, and volcanic eruptions that created Lake Tahoe and its surroundings. As you traverse the region's ancient granite peaks and azure depths, you'll uncover the profound influence of geological processes on the environment and human history. Readers will learn about the many prominent points of geologic interest and discover their location and creation processes. Author David C. Antonucci's expertise bridges the gap between complex academic insight and plain language explanations, making Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin a must-read for scientists, nature enthusiasts, visitors, and curious minds alike. Whether you're a seasoned geology enthusiast or simply a lover of breathtaking landscapes, this book offers a rare opportunity to witness the Earth's tumultuous past through the lens of one of its most awe-inspiring natural wonders.
Hydrogeology of Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada, and Results of a Ground-water Quality Monitoring Network, Water Years 1990-92
Author: Carl E. Thodal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Hydrogeology of Lake Tahoe Basin
Author: Carl E. Thodal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Geologic Studies in the Lake Tahoe Area, California and Nevada
Author: Geological Society of Sacramento
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada
Author: Richard L. Orndorff
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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
Plutonism in the Central Part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California
Author: Paul C. Bateman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Batholiths
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A study of the structure, composition, and pre-Tertiary history of the Sierra Nevada batholith in the Mariposa 1 by 2 quadrangle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Batholiths
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A study of the structure, composition, and pre-Tertiary history of the Sierra Nevada batholith in the Mariposa 1 by 2 quadrangle.
U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Sierra East
Author: Genny Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
"There are few more spectacular drives on Earth than Highway 395 along the foot of the great granite wall of the Sierra Nevada. In Sierra East, Genny Smith and her team of experts tell the story of that amazing terrain, and its fantastic contours, molded by tectonic upthrusts and Pleistocene glaciers; its spectacular weathers; its amazing diversity of plant and animal life; and the human struggles over its life-giving waters."--Harold Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "For those of us who live within the Sierra East territory, this is the 'right' side of California. It is a wondrous place to visit. This book is not a superficial tourist guide to what you may see from the scenic overlooks. It is a real guidebook covering all the natural and unnatural history as well as geology, weather, and water. There are thorough descriptions of plants and animals you may wander across plus information on how they cope with the extreme rigors of the high mountains and harsh deserts."--Sally Gaines, co-founder of the Mono Lake Committee "This is the first comprehensive natural history of the Eastern Sierra. An outstanding team of authors, with years of experience in the region, meets the challenge of covering their specialties from the Mojave Desert to the tops of 14,000-foot mountains. This diverse material is uniformly accessible in a readable style."--Frank L. Powell, Director, White Mountain Research Station, University of California, San Diego
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
"There are few more spectacular drives on Earth than Highway 395 along the foot of the great granite wall of the Sierra Nevada. In Sierra East, Genny Smith and her team of experts tell the story of that amazing terrain, and its fantastic contours, molded by tectonic upthrusts and Pleistocene glaciers; its spectacular weathers; its amazing diversity of plant and animal life; and the human struggles over its life-giving waters."--Harold Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "For those of us who live within the Sierra East territory, this is the 'right' side of California. It is a wondrous place to visit. This book is not a superficial tourist guide to what you may see from the scenic overlooks. It is a real guidebook covering all the natural and unnatural history as well as geology, weather, and water. There are thorough descriptions of plants and animals you may wander across plus information on how they cope with the extreme rigors of the high mountains and harsh deserts."--Sally Gaines, co-founder of the Mono Lake Committee "This is the first comprehensive natural history of the Eastern Sierra. An outstanding team of authors, with years of experience in the region, meets the challenge of covering their specialties from the Mojave Desert to the tops of 14,000-foot mountains. This diverse material is uniformly accessible in a readable style."--Frank L. Powell, Director, White Mountain Research Station, University of California, San Diego
Assembling California
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706026
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706026
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.