Full title: Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park
Authors: Allen F. Glazner and Greg M. Stock
"A fascinating and superbly organized book to tell the park's history and describe the origins of its hundreds of little known but surprisingly accessible features. They illustrate it all with illuminating color photographs, maps and clear diagrams." —San Francisco Chronicle
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.
About the Authors: Allen F. Glazner grew up in California and earned a BA at Pomona College and a PhD 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.
Greg Stock was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada just north of Yosemite, and he has explored the region by climbing on and caving in the region’s unique geology. These interests led him to pursue a bachelor’s degree in geology at Humboldt State University and a PhD in earth science at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studied the uplift and erosion of the Sierra Nevada. Greg is Yosemite National Park’s first-ever park geologist. He lives in Yosemite Valley with his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Autumn.
Published: 8/1/2010
ISBN: 9780878425686
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Format: Paperback
Product Code: 297-GUFYNP
Product Category: Geology Underfoot