The mountains that remade America : how Sierra Nevada geology impacts modern life /

"From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Where there was gold to be mined (and where there was not) redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn't) determines whose fruit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jones, Craig H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Geology > Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > History.
Human geography > Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Mountains > Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > History.
Gold mines and mining > Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Montagnes > Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) > Histoire.
Or > Mines et extraction > Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Geology
Gold mines and mining
Human geography
Mountains
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.)
United States > Sierra Nevada
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An asymmetric barrier
  • A golden trinity
  • A placer for everyone
  • Fossil rivers, modern water
  • Lode gold
  • "A property of no value ..."
  • Granite, guardian of wilderness
  • Big trees, big battles
  • Mountains adrift
  • What lies beneath
  • Paradoxes and proxy wars.

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