The Ever-Changing Sierra -- Geology: Of Time and Rocks -- Being First -- Plate Tectonics Puts the Sierra Nevada in Its Place -- Seas of Long Ago -- Great is Granite -- Treasures from the Earth -- Landscapes of Yesteryear -- Days of Fire -- Days of Ice -- Mono Lake: The "Dead Sea" of the West -- The Yosemite "Problem" -- The Mountains Tremble.
Summary
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, s.
