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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Craig H. JonesPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9780520289642ISBN 10: 0520289641 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 05 September 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1 * An Asymmetric Barrier 2 * A Golden Trinity 3 * A Placer for Everyone 4 * Fossil Rivers, Modern Water 5 * Lode Gold 6 * A Property of No Value 7 * Granite, Guardian of Wilderness 8 * Big Trees, Big Battles 9 * Mountains Adrift 10 * What Lies Beneath 11 * Paradoxes and Proxy Wars Notes References Illustration Sources IndexReviews""This book details a remarkable example of the lived human history of a place and its intersection with the natural."" * Environment, Space, Place * ""This book serves both as a deep dive into how the Sierra Nevada range was formed (Jones is a geology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder) and the montains' importance in American history (the Gold Rush, the perservation of Yellowstone and Yosemite, and more)."" * Landscape Architecture Magazine * """This book details a remarkable example of the lived human history of a place and its intersection with the natural."" * Environment, Space, Place * ""This book serves both as a deep dive into how the Sierra Nevada range was formed (Jones is a geology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder) and the montains' importance in American history (the Gold Rush, the perservation of Yellowstone and Yosemite, and more)."" * Landscape Architecture Magazine *" This book details a remarkable example of the lived human history of a place and its intersection with the natural. * Environment, Space, Place * This book serves both as a deep dive into how the Sierra Nevada range was formed (Jones is a geology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder) and the montains' importance in American history (the Gold Rush, the perservation of Yellowstone and Yosemite, and more). * Landscape Architecture Magazine * This book details a remarkable example of the lived human history of a place and its intersection with the natural. * Environment, Space, Place * Author InformationCraig H. Jones is Professor of Geological Sciences and Fellow with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published peer-reviewed research in Science, Nature, and prominent earth-science journals, and he is also the coauthor of Introduction to Applied Geophysics. He blogs as the Grumpy Geophysicist. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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