Great Basin and Sierra Nevada: GSA Field Trip Guide 2

Sixteen chapters, arranged in geo-chronological order, discuss the geology of the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada. Topics include: Lake Tahoe active faults, landslides, and tsunamis; geo-archeology and holocene landscape history of the Carson Desert; late Cenozoic crustal extension and magnetism in the southern Death Valley region; Middle Mesozoic plutonism and deformation in the western Sierra Nevada foothills; the Pershing olistostrome; and the Neoproterozoic glacial record in the Death Valley region. Additional chapters discuss the Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain. A field guide from the 1999 Cordilleran section is also included. An appendix features eight color figures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)