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100 1 $aMoore, James G.,$d1930-
245 10 $aExploring the highest sierra /$cJames G. Moore.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$cc2000.
300 $axv, 427 p. :$bill., maps ;$c29 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [409]-419) and index.
505 0 $aExploration -- Probing the High Sierra: Fremont and Carson -- The Pacific Railroad Surveys: Blake and Williamson -- Breaking New Ground: Goddard and the Trail Blazers -- The California Geological Survey: Whitney, Brewer, King, and Hoffmann -- Exalting the Wilderness: John Muir -- Creating and Enlarging the National Parks -- Mapping -- The Territorial Surveys: King and Wheeler -- The Scaling of Mount Whitney: Errors Compounded -- Measuring the Ground: The General Land Office -- Mapping the High Trails: LeConte, Solomons, and the Sierra Club -- Detailed Topographic Mapping: The U.S. Geological Survey -- Peaks, Valleys, and Rivers: The Basis of Place Names -- The Structures of the Land: Geologic Mapping -- Time, Minerals, Rocks, and Plates -- The Geologic Time Scale -- Dating the Rocks: Radiometric Methods -- Building Blocks of Rocks: The Common Minerals -- Solidified Magma: The Igneous Rocks -- The Global View: Plate Tectonics and the Rise of the Sierra -- Metamorphic Rocks -- The Four Terranes of Metamorphic Rock -- Rare Fossils: Key to the Age of Metamorphic Rocks -- Marble: The Birthplace of Caves -- The Origin and Assembly of the Metamorphic Terranes -- Granitic Rocks -- Plutons and the Sierra Nevada Batholith -- Making Room for the Granite -- Structures of Granitic Rocks -- Field Criteria for the Relative Ages of Plutons -- The Age of the Sierra Nevada Batholith -- The Depth and Thickness of the Batholith -- Analyzing the Granitic Rocks -- Changes in Composition Across the Batholith -- Mafic Plutonic Rocks -- The Independence Dike Swarm -- Plate Tectonics and the Batholith -- Mineral Deposits -- The Kearsarge District -- The Mineral King Bust -- Copper and Molybdenum Deposits -- The Tungsten Mines -- Cenozoic Volcanic Rocks -- The Initial Volcanic Phase -- The Second Volcanic Phase -- The Third Volcanic Phase -- Glaciers and Glaciation -- The Extent of Glaciation in the High Country -- Glacial Processes and Their Products -- The Causes and Timing of Glaciation -- Landslides -- Geologic Structures -- The Crustal Structure of the Sierra -- Faults in and near the Sierra Block -- The Nature of Joints -- Uplift and Erosion -- Geologic Road and Trail Guides -- Kings Canyon Highway, State Route 180 -- State Route 198 and the Generals Highway -- The Mineral King Road -- The John Muir Trail -- The High Sierra Trail.
650 0 $aCartography$zSierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
650 0 $aGeology$zSierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
651 0 $aSierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)$xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 $aSierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)$vSurveys.
948 $a05/08/2000$b05/23/2000
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