Author: Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Research in the Geysers-Clear Lake Geothermal Area, Northern California
Author: Assembling California
Author: John McPheePublisher: 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.
List of U.S. Geological Survey Geologic and Water-supply Reports and Maps for California
Author: Discover Nature in the Rocks
Author: Rebecca LawtonPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811727204
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A friendly introduction to hands-on study of nature in your own backyard. Simple activities for all ages.
Report of the State Mineralogist
Author: California. Division of MinesPublisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Late Quaternary Climate, Tectonism, and Sedimentation in Clear Lake, Northern California Coast Ranges
Author: John D. SimsPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722144
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Plutonism in the Central Part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California
Author: Paul C. BatemanPublisher:
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.
Silent Spring
Author: Rachel CarsonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618249060
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.
Tectonic Setting of Late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Rocks in Part of the Coast Ranges North of San Francisco, California
Author: Kenneth F. FoxPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A study of the structural contrast between the little-deformed rocks of the Sebastopol block and the highly deformed rocks of the Santa Rosa block.