Full title: Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park
Authors: Allen F. Glazner and Greg M. Stock
Few places in the nation rival Yosemite National Park for vertigo-inducing cliffs, plunging waterfalls, and stunning panoramic views of granite peaks. Many of the features that visitors find most tantalizing about Yosemite have unique and compelling geologic stories--tales that continue to unfold today in vivid, often destructive ways. While visiting more than twenty-seven amazing sites, you'll discover why many of Yosemite's domes shed rock shells like onion layers, what happens when a volcano erupts under a glacial lake, and why rocks seem to be almost continually tumbling from the region's cliffs. With a multitude of colorful photos and illustrations, and prose tooled for the lay reader, Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park will help you read the landscape the way a geologist does.
The Geology Underfoot series encourages you to get out of your car for an up-close look at rocks and landforms. These books inform and enlighten, no matter how much--or how little--geology you already know. What's more, they're simply good reading, on-site or at home.
Published: 8/1/2010
ISBN: 9780878425686
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Format: Paperback
Product Code: 297-GUFYNP
Product Category: Geology Underfoot