Full title: Geology Underfoot in Southern California
Second Edition
Authors: Arthur G. Sylvester, Robert P. Sharp, and Allen F. Glazner
Illustrator: Elizabeth O'Black Gans
First published in 1993, this groundbreaking book is now fully revised and updated with the latest scientific information. Join a team of geologists as they use clear prose, concise illustrations, and dramatic full-color photographs to tell the stories of 21 amazing geologic sites, 3 of which are completely new to the book—San Andreas Fault, Devils Punch Bowl, and St. Francis Dam. Reading the rocks like pages in a book, Geology Underfoot in Southern California offers an inside view of the southland's active and sometimes enigmatic landscape.
About the Authors: Arthur G. Sylvester is a native southern Californian, whose eyes were opened to geology by high school biology class trips to the Colorado Plateau. With a focus on earth sciences, he earned a BA at Pomona College and an MA and PhD at UCLA. After graduate school, he joined a team of Shell Development Company research geologists to study the tectonic history of the Pacific margin of the United States. UC Santa Barbara lured him from Shell to teach courses in structural geology, field geology, and petrology. His academic research focused on various structural, seismic, and igneous rock problems in the Colorado and Mojave Deserts, the Transverse Ranges, and the Lake Tahoe region, as well as in Norway and southern Italy. He retired from active teaching in 2003.
Robert P. Sharp (24 June 1911 – 25 May 2004) was an American geomorphologist and expert on the geological surfaces of the Earth and the planet Mars. Sharp served as the chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1952 to 1968. He built the modern department and especially recruited new faculty in geochemistry, tectonic geomorphology, planetary science, and field geology.
Allen F. Glazner grew up in California and earned a B.A. at Pomona College and a Ph.D. at UCLA, both in geology. His research career has focused on volcanism, granites, and plate tectonics of the American Southwest. In 1993 he and Robert Sharp started the Geology Underfoot series, where writing for the public combines his love of science and photography with his interests in journalism and public outreach. Allen retired in 2019 from a 38-year career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus, but he continues research in California.
Elizabeth O’Black Gans (Libby to most) holds a BS in geology from UC Santa Barbara, where she was introduced to plenty of great southern California geology, as well as to the art of map making. Shortly after graduation, Libby started Gans Illustrations and began working on maps and scientific illustrations for publication, eventually becoming the first digital artist of the Dibblee Geological Foundation. While Libby’s main vocation of the last fifteen years has been raising a family, she continues to work on geologic maps and scientific illustrations. Libby is currently employed at Santa Barbara City College in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Published: 4/15/2020
ISBN: 9780878426980
Pages: 308
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Format: Paperback
Product Code: 287-GUFSCA2
Product Category: Geology Underfoot