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Author : Robert Matheson Norris,Robert Wallace Webb
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822028160885
This introduction to the geology of California covers all major geomorphic provinces and is organized from north to south.
Author : Clarence A. Hall Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520933262
With its active fault systems, complex landforms, and myriad natural habitats, southern California boasts a rich and dynamic geologic environment. This abundantly illustrated volume at last provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible resource for students and general readers interested in southern California's geology and native plants. Covering an extensive area, north from San Diego to Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada and east to the Mojave and Colorado deserts, its unique, comprehensive approach brings together for the first time the basic principles of geology, the story of plate tectonics, in-depth discussion of the geology of many specific locales within the region, and information on identifying southern California's native plants.
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781498707954
California has some of the most distinctive and unique geology in the United States. It is the only state with all three types of plate boundaries, an extraordinary history of earthquakes and volcanoes, and it has many rocks and minerals found nowhere else. The Golden State includes both the highest and lowest point in the continental US and practically every conceivable geological feature known. This book discusses not only the important geologic features of each region in California, but also the complex geologic four-dimensional puzzle of how California was assembled, beginning over 2 billion years ago. The author provides up-to-date and authoritative review of the geology and geomorphology of each geologic province, as well as recent revelations of tectonic history of California’s past. There are separate chapters on some of California’s distinctive geologic resources, including gold, oil, water, coastlines, and fossils. An introductory section describes basic rock and mineral types and fundamental aspects of plate tectonics, so that students and other readers can make sense of the bizarre, wild, and crazy jigsaw puzzle that is California's geological history.
Author : Robert Phillip Sharp,Allen F. Glazner
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Geology
ISBN : 0878422897
Twenty vignettes focus on particular geologic scenes, relationships, and features of southern California's active landscape.
Author : Arthur G. Sylvester
Publisher : Roadside Geology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 0878426531
Since Mountain Press started the Roadside Geology series forty years ago, southern Californians have been waiting for an RG of their own. During those four decades�which were punctuated by jarring earthquakes and landslides�geologists continued to unravel the complexity of the Golden State, where some of the most dramatic and diverse geology in the world erupts, crashes, and collides. With dazzling color maps, diagrams, and photographs, Roadside Geology of Southern California takes advantage of this newfound knowledge, combining the latest science with accessible stories about the rocks and landscapes visible from winding two-lane byways as well as from the region�s vast network of highways. Join Arthur Sylvester, an award-winning UC Santa Barbara geologist, and Elizabeth O�Black Gans, a geologist-illustrator, as they motor through mountains and deserts to explore the iconic features of the SoCal landscape, from boulder piles in Joshua Tree National Park and brilliant white dunes in the Channel Islands to tar seeps along the rugged coast and youthful cinder cones in the Mojave Desert. Whether you want to find precious gemstones, ponder the mysteries of the Salton Sea, or straddle the boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates, be sure to bring this book along as your tour guide.
Author : R. Gordon Gastil,Richard P. Phillips,Edwin C. Allison
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813711409
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0374706026
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.
Author : David D. Alt,Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher : Roadside Geology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 0878426701
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.
Author : Raymond Sullivan,Doris Sloan,Jeffrey R. Unruh ,David P. Schwartz
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813712178
"Mount Diablo and the geology of the Central California Coast Ranges are the subject of a volume celebrating the Northern California Geological Society's 75th anniversary. The breadth of research illustrates the complex Mesozoic to Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the plate boundary"--
Author : Mary Hill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520936942
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 : Deborah Reid Harden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Geology
ISBN : 0023500425
For a one-semester introductory course in California Geology. No prerequisites required. With California plate tectonics as a central theme, this text is intended to acquaint non-geologists with California geology. Introduces basic principles in the beginning of the text and works toward a unifying picture of California geology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : NYPL:33433100232408
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Geology
ISBN : PRNC:32101048044554
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Geology
ISBN : PURD:32754067861975
Author : Cordell Durrell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988-02-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520908023
How did the Sierra Nevada and adjacent lands come to be the size and shape they are today? This book covers 400 million years of physical evolution in a language understandable to nonscientists, tracing the volcanic activity, the folding and building of mountains, the breaking of blocks along fault lines, and the work of erosion and glaciers that have created today's dramatic landscape. Cordell Durrell spent a lifetime reading this complex story of movement and change in the rocks of the Feather River country. He shares with readers the excitement of discovering by remote but careful inference what must have happened millions upon millions of years ago. The basic methods of geologic analysis that Durrell describes can be applied anywhere on the earth's surface, lending new fascination to our travels throughout the frozen arctic, dry deserts, tropical rainforests, low swamps, and high mountains like California's magnificent Sierra.
