Author: Joseph V. Tingley Publisher: Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology ISBN: 1888035056 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
A guide to what some call America's loneliest road Highway 50 between Lake Tahoe and Great Basin National Park. It takes the reader through historic mining towns, the Nevada gold belt, ghost towns, petroglyph sites, rock collecting localities, and wildlife viewing areas along the way.
Author: Tim Seibel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Automobile travel Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"This volume of Freedom Voyages focuses on two outstanding features of the American West: the “Loneliest Road in America” and the Gold Rush country of northern California. The trip starts in Colorado, then goes west through Utah, into Nevada along The Loneliest Road in America, and around Lake Tahoe before touring some of northern California’s best old Gold Rush towns. Volume 2 includes nearly 300 photos from the 8-day road trip, supplemented with facts and comments about the areas visited and their history."--Amazon.com.
Author: Dirk Van Hart Publisher: ISBN: 9780865348370 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
This reader-friendly exploration along what was once New Mexico State Highway 44, now redesignated the southern part of federal highway US-550, melds both the human and geologic history along the major transportation corridor connecting the Rio Grande Valley in central New Mexico with the San Juan River Valley in the far northwestern part of the state. Numerous illustrations portray the region's geology in a form intelligible and interesting to the non-geologist. The basic understanding of the landscape thus provides the scaffolding to support the stories of the interesting people who figure in the history along "Old 44." The book aims to provide a view of the highway and its environs in an entirely new way and to make history and geology seem a natural and necessary pairing. DIRK VAN HART earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geology, and in 1965 began a professional career as a petroleum geologist. During the next two decades the gypsy life of the geologist took him to Oklahoma, Texas, California, Guatemala, and Ecuador. In 1986 a career change led him to move his family to Albuquerque, New Mexico where he engaged in contract geological projects in Italy and Belize, and for a short while taught high-school science. In 1994 he joined a team effort to characterize the geology of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque as a contractor for Sandia National Laboratories. He is now retired.
Author: H. M. Kelsey Publisher: ISBN: 9780813756653 Category : Geology Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The field guides in this volume are associated with the GSA Southeastern/Northeastern Sections Joint Meeting and the Cordilleran Section Meeting. Journey through the geology and paleontology of Cretaceous and Paleocene sediments of the Cabin Branch, Cabin Creek, and Tinkers Creek outcrops in Maryland. Go west and explore the northern Sierra Nevada by tackling the history of tectonics and magmatism along the Yuba Pass and Highway 70 corridors. Next, delve deeper into the northern Sierra Nevada by learning about ophiolites, active tectonics, and geomorphology. Last, take a trip to enjoy the roadside geology of the Bodie and Aurora mining Districts, Mono County, California, and Mineral County, Nevada.
Author: Joseph V. Tingley
Author: Joseph V. Tingley
Author: Joseph V. Tingley
Author: Kris Ann Pizarro
Author: Joseph V. Tingley
Author: Becky Weimer Purkey
Author: Tim Seibel
Author: Dirk Van Hart
Author: Geological Society of America. Cordilleran Section
Author: H. M. Kelsey