The Mountains That Remade America (eBook)

How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life

Craig H. Jones (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
360 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96423-5 (ISBN)

Infos

From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there was gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn't) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and how it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country. The Mountains That Remade Americacombines geology withhistory to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced daily life in the United States in the past and how they continue to do so today. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and contemporary society, Craig H. Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast impact this mountain range has had on the American West.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction

1 • An Asymmetric Barrier
2 • A Golden Trinity
3 • A Placer for Everyone
4 • Fossil Rivers, Modern Water
5 • Lode Gold
6 • “A Property of No Value”
7 • Granite, Guardian of Wilderness
8 • Big Trees, Big Battles
9 • Mountains Adrift
10 • What Lies Beneath
11 • Paradoxes and Proxy Wars

Notes
References
Illustration Sources
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: american landscape • American West • Backpacker • cartographer • Contemporary Society • geographer • Geography • geological science • geologist • Geology • Hiker • historical geology • mountain range • Natural science • outdoorsman • Sierra Nevada Mountains • Travel Guide
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96423-3 / 0520964233
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96423-5 / 9780520964235