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At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the ...Show synopsisAt various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth--and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, "Assembling California" is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.Hide synopsis
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The author mainly covers the geology of the middle of California primarily (think San Francisco to Nevada border. I was more interested in the Southern California geology, so this did not hit the mark.
This is an interesting book and well written and the geology of California is fascinating.
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As usual, John McPhee writes about earth sciences in a very interesting and understandable fashion. His descriptions and language usage are entertaining. I really enjoyed reading this book on the geological history of California and San Francisco. It was not a dry science book, but a story of his ...
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