Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada

by Orndorff, Richard L.

• ISBN13: 9780878424184
• ISBN10: 0878424180
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Mountain Pr

Summary

Most people think of Nevada as a land of casinos and drive-in wedding chapels punctuating vast expanses of desolate desert. But at the heart of the Basin and Range province, the Silver State is also a geologist's playground, with great topographic relief

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Geology of Central Nevada	1	(10)
Tahoe's Recycled Sandbox
Sand Harbor	11	(12)
Vulcan's Throat
Cave Rock	23	(6)
Grinding Glaciers and Sliding Slopes
Emerald Bay	29	(10)
Finding Fault
Genoa Fault Scarp	39	(10)
Take a Walk on the Wild Slide
Slide Mountain	49	(12)
Fire Down Below
Stemboat Hot Springs	61	(10)
Of Lava and Lahars
Mount Rose	71	(12)
Nevada's Greatest Lake
Lake Lahontan	83	(14)
Varnished Rock in a Desert Gallery
Grimes Point	97	(10)
Deciphering Time's Muck Heaps
Hidden Cave	107	(14)
One Grain at a Time
Sand Mountain	121	(10)
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
Fairview Peak	131	(14)
Boomtown Ghosts and the Hunt for Gold
Berlin Ghost Town	145	(10)
Mesozoic Monsters of the Deep
Nevada's Ichthyosaurs	155	(12)
Remnants of a Burning Wasteland
Hickison Summit	167	(10)
Explosions in an Alien Landscape
Lunar Crater Volcanic Field	177	(8)
Message from the Mantle
Black Rock Lava Flow	185	(8)
Desert Gemstones
Garnet Hill	193	(10)
Open Pits and Altered Rock
Robinson Mining District	203	(10)
Island in the Desert
Wheeler Peak	213	(16)
Beauty Beneath the Surface
Lehman Caves	229	(12)
Gnarled Elders of the Snake Range
Bristlecone Pines	241	(12)
Nevada's Only Glacier
Glacial Features in Great Basin National Park	253	(12)
Hoodoos and Badlands
Cathedral Gorge	265	(8)
Glossary	273	(12)
Sources of More Information	285	(6)
Index	291