Geology of the Sierra Nevada

By Mary Hill

New, Hardbound, 453 pages

$28.50 plus tax and shipping ($34.74)

Mary Hill spent most of her career serving as information officer for the State of California & the U.S. Geological Survey. She knows how to write for non-geologists. She includes the records & biographies of the early explorers & a clear interactive key for identifying rocks as well as some of the most striking photographs I have seen. You will want to take this along on your next trip.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

 

Introduction: The Ever-Changing Sierra

Geological Features and Where to See Them

Do-lt-Yourself Rock Identification Key

Tables of Geological Features

Maps of Geological Sights

 

 1.      Geology: Of Time and Rocks

 2.      The Range Today

 3.      Being First

 4.      Plate Tectonics Puts the Sierra Nevada

      in Its Place

 5.      Seas of Long Ago

 6.      Great Is Granite

 7.       Treasures from the Earth

 8.       Landscapes of Yesteryear

 9.       Days of Fire

10.       Days of Ice

11.       Mono Lake: The "Dead Sea" of the West

12.       The Yosemite "Problem"

13.       The Mountains Tremble

                  Coda

                  Glossary

                  Suggestions for Further Reading