Geology of the Sierra Nevada

Geology of the Sierra Nevada

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-453

  Hill, Mary ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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76. Fig. 1. Bill Nelson.
77. Fig. 2. After Mary Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 1st ed. (Berkeley and Los Angeles:University of California Press, 1975), 5.Original drawing by Adrienne E.Morgan.
78. Fig. 3. Revised from Geological Society of America, 1999 Geological Time Scale.
79. Fig. 4. From Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 13. Original drawing by Adrienne E.Morgan.
80. Fig. 5. After Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 14.
81. Fig. 6. François Matthes,Geologic History of the Yosemite Valley, U.S.Geological Survey Professional Paper 160 (1930).
82. Fig. 7. After Genny Smith, ed., Sierra East: Edge of the Great Basin (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), 451. Original map by Annie Kook.
83. Fig. 8. Stasia Wolfe. Courtesy of the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center.
84. Fig. 9. From J. M.Hutchings, Scenes ofWonder and Curiosity in California, Illustrated with over One Hundred Engravings: A Tourist's Guide to the Yosemite Valley (New York: A.Roman, 1871), 175.
85. Fig. 10. From Hutchings, Scenes ofWonder, 105.
86. Fig. 11. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley.
87. Fig. 12. From Hutchings, Scenes ofWonder, 164.
88. Fig. 13. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley.
89. Fig. 14. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley.
90. Fig. 15. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley.
91. Fig. 16. Modified from James G.Moore, Exploring the Highest Sierra (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000), 26.
92. Fig. 17. T. H. O'Sullivan. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley.
93. Fig. 18. J. Georgi. Courtesy of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
94. Fig. 19. After Jacquelyne W. Kious and Robert I. Tilling, This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics (Washington,D.C.: U.S.Geological Survey, 1996), 4. Also available online: http://pubs .usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html.
95. Fig. 20. After Kious and Tilling, This Dynamic Earth, 2.
96. Fig. 21. After Kious and Tilling, This Dynamic Earth, 15.
97. Fig. 22. After Kious and Tilling, This Dynamic Earth, 18.
98. Fig. 23. After Kious and Tilling, This Dynamic Earth, 30.
99. Fig. 24. After Kious and Tilling, This Dynamic Earth, 38.
100. Fig. 25. After Kious and Tilling, This Dynamic Earth, 54.
101. Fig. 26. After Kious and Tilling, This Dynamic Earth 56.
102. Fig. 27. After Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 50.Original drawing by Alex Eng.
103. Fig. 29. After Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 56.Original drawing by Alex Eng.
104. Fig. 30. After Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 57.Original drawing by Ed Foster.
105. Fig. 31. After Jeff Putnam and Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: AGuide to Owens Valley, Its Roadsides and Mountain Trails, 2nd ed.(Mammoth Lakes, Calif.: Genny Smith Books, 1995), 142-143.Original drawing by Paul Bateman.
106. Fig. 32. Mary Hill.
107. Fig. 33. After N.King Huber, The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park,U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1595 (1987), 20.
108. Fig. 34. After Huber, The Geologic Story, 21.
109. Fig. 35. After Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 70.Original drawing by Ed Foster.
110. Fig. 36. Mary Hill.
111. Fig. 37. After Putnam and Smith,Deepest Valley, 139.
112. Fig. 38. After Jeffrey P. Shaffer et al. 1995. The Pacific Crest Trail, vol.1, California. (Berkeley, Calif.:Wilderness Press), frontispiece.
113. Fig. 39. After California Geology (September 1983): 187.
114. Fig. 40. Courtesy of the California State Library.
115. Fig. 41. After Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 86.Original drawing by Alex Eng.
116. Fig. 42. Eleanor McClatchy. Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center.
117. Fig. 43. Mary Hill.
118. Fig. 44. Mary Hill, Gold: The California Story (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999), 107. Original map by Bill Nelson.
119. Fig. 45. From Hill, Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 92-93. Drawing by Alex Eng.
120. Fig. 46. Courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Louis L. Stein.
121. Fig. 47. From Hill, Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 106-107. Drawing by Alex Eng.
122. Fig. 48. After Smith, ed., Sierra East, 56. Modified by Annie Kook; after Roy Bailey, Geologic Map of the Long Valley Caldera,Mono-Inyo Craters Volcanic Chain, and Vicinity, Eastern California (Washington,D.C.:U.S. Geological Survey, 1989),Map I-1933.
123. Fig. 49. From Hill,Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 110. Original drawing by Alex Eng; after G. H.Heiken, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 83 (January 1972): 96.
124. Fig. 50. From Hill, Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 109. Drawing by Alex Eng.
125. Fig. 52. After W. C. Putnam, The Geographical Review (1938).
126. Fig. 53. From W. M. Davis, Scottish Geographical Magazine (1906).
127. Fig. 54. Mary Hill.
128. Fig. 55. After Hill, Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 132. Original drawing by Alex Eng.
129. Fig. 56. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
130. Fig. 57. From Hutchings, Scenes ofWonder, 144.
131. Fig. 58. From J.D.Whitney, Geology: Report of Progress and Synopsis of Field Work from 1860 to 1864, vol. 1 (Sacramento: Geological Survey of California, 1865), plate L.
132. Fig. 59. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley.
133. Fig. 60. From Hutchings, Scenes ofWonder, 170.
134. Fig. 61. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley.
135. Fig. 62. From Matthes,Geologic History.
136. Fig. 63. From Matthes,Geologic History.
137. Fig. 64. After Matthes, Incomparable Valley.
138. Fig. 65. Mary Hill.
139. Fig. 66. From Hutchings, Scenes ofWonder, 140.
140. Fig. 67. After Hill, Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 167. Original drawing by Adrienne Morgan; modified from State of California Preliminary Fault and Geologic Map, scale 1:750,000 by Charles W.Jennings, California Division ofMines and Geology, Preliminary Report 13 (1974).
141. Fig. 68. From Inyo Independent, 1872.
142. Fig. 69. From Dean C. Rinehart and Ward C. Smith, Earthquakes and Young Volcanoes (Palo Alto,Calif.: Genny Smith Books, 1982), 15.
143. Fig. 70. After California Geology, 1972. Original drawing by Ron Morgan.
144. Fig. 71. From Rinehart and Smith, Earthquakes and Young Volcanoes, 14.
145. Fig. 72. From Doris Sloan, Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006), 34.
146. Fig. 73. From Hutchings, Scenes ofWonder, 108.