Full title: Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Eastern California
Second Edition
Authors: Allen F. Glazner, Arthur Gibbs Sylvester, and Robert P. Sharp
Illustrator: Chelsea M. Feeney
Eastern California--a geologically dramatic region with the ever-present risk of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, flash floods, and sand storms--boasts spectacular and easily viewed rocks and landforms. Authors Allen F. Glazner and Arthur Gibbs Sylvester build on coauthor Robert P. Sharp's insights to produce this full-color illustrated guide to 33 amazing geologic sites in Death Valley and the surrounding region. Learn how stones slide across the Racetrack playa, find the rocks missing from Dantes View, and visit the rim of the Long Valley caldera, an enormous depression left by a supervolcano eruption far larger than any that has occurred since the dawn of civilization.
About the Authors: 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.
Arthur Gibbs 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.
Chelsea M. Feeney was raised at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia and received a BS in geosciences from Virginia Tech. Her geologic pursuits led her to the Northwest where she earned her MS in geology from the University of Montana and published her first map through the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. She has been producing geologic maps and figures for Mountain Press Publishing Company and GSA since 2009 and owns her own custom cartography business (www.cmcfeeney.com). Chelsea lives in Moscow, Idaho, with her husband Dennis, a fellow geologist, and their two children.
Published: 2/10/2022
ISBN: 9780878427079
Pages: 326
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Format: Paperback
Product Code: 294-GUFDV2
Product Category: Geology Underfoot