Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens ValleyMountain Press Publishing, 1997 - 319 pagine Eastern California boasts the greatest dryland relief in the contiguous United States--between Mt. Whitney and Death Valley--and that relief exposes spectacular geology. These thirty driving and walking tours each weave the tale of a geological features or relationship in this land of extremes. Some sketches ponder questions that puzzle geologists: how do stones slide across Racetrack playa? Others spotlight the earth-sculpturing role of volcanoes and earthquakes: lava columns at Devils Postpile and fault scarps that shape a golf course. Still others focus on less obvious but equally powerful processes: boulders shattered by salt crystals and rocks blasted by windblown sand. |
Sommario
Youthful Tectonism | 67 |
A Tale of Two Mysteries | 87 |
A Diversionary Tale | 107 |
Wind at Play in Natures Sandbox | 129 |
A Big Explosion | 153 |
The Falls of an Ice Age | 177 |
A Frightful Earthquake | 195 |
A Buried Weathered Giant | 203 |
A Disappearing Fault | 233 |
East Meets West | 241 |
A Crack Runs through It | 251 |
Fun and Games on Living Volcanoes | 259 |
Columnar Jointing at Its Best | 271 |
An Ominous Ooze | 279 |
Mountains of Glass | 289 |
Glossary | 297 |
Basins and Ranges | 211 |
The Oldest Living Things | 219 |
Dating an Old Glaciation | 225 |
Sources of Supplemental Information | 308 |
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Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley Robert Phillip Sharp,Allen F. Glazner Visualizzazione estratti - 1997 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Alabama Hills alluvial fans Badwater Badwater Road basalt basin bedrock Black Mountains boulders bristlecone pines California 190 carbonate channel cones Convict Lake Copper Canyon Coulee cracks crest Death Valley deposits desert Devils Postpile dike dolomite dune Earthquake fault east erosion eruptions fault scarp feet floor fragments Furnace Creek Furnace Creek Wash Geologists glacial glacier glass Gower Gulch granite gravel gullies Helen inches Inyo Craters Knudsen photo Lake Manly lakebeds lava layers Little Hebe Lone Pine Long Valley caldera magma Mammoth Lakes Mammoth Mountain McGee Mesquite miles north miles south mineral Mojave River Mono domes moraine Mormon Point Mosaic Canyon Obsidian Dome Owens Lake Owens River Owens Valley Panamint parking area pavement pinnacles playa pumice Racetrack rhyolite ridge ROADSIDE GEOLOGY sand shoreline side Sierra Nevada slope steep stones strandlines stream surface Tecopa Tioga trail tufa tuff turtleback Ubehebe Crater upstream varnish vignette volcanic wall wind