The Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life

by Craig H Jones and Craig H. Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520325508
• ISBN13: 9780520325500
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"