The Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520325500ISBN-10:520325508UPC:9780520325500Book Category:Science, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, United States, Human GeographyBook Topic:Geology, State & LocalSize:8.60 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCG31K4S7X
The Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520325500ISBN-10:520325508UPC:9780520325500Book Category:Science, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, United States, Human GeographyBook Topic:Geology, State & LocalSize:8.60 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCG31K4S7X
Craig H. Jones is Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His work is published in Science and Nature, and he is the coauthor of Introduction to Applied Geophysics.
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