Exploring the Highest Sierra

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English | 2000 | ISBN: 0804736472 | 427 Pages | PDF | 68.0 MB
Far more a geology study than California exploration as Library of Congress has classed it.

After a brief history of the first survey and mapping expeditions into the area and a discussion of basic geological science, chapters cover such geological aspects the area as metamorphic and granitic rocks, mineral deposits, cenozoic volcanic rocks, glaciers and glaciation, landslides, and geologic structures.