Few places in the nation rival Yosemite National Park for vertigo-inducing cliffs, plunging waterfalls, and stunning panoramic views of granite peaks. Many of the features that visitors find most tantalizing about Yosemite have unique and compelling geologic stories�tales that continue to unfold today in vivid, often destructive ways. While visiting more than twenty-seven amazing sites, you�ll discover why many of Yosemite�s domes shed rock shells like onion layers, what happens when a volcano erupts under a glacial lake, and why rocks seem to be almost continually tumbling from the region�s cliffs. With a multitude of colorful photos and illustrations, and prose tooled for the lay reader, Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park will help you read the landscape the way a geologist does.
The Geology Underfoot series encourages you to get out of your car for an up-close look at rocks and landforms. These books inform and enlighten, no matter how much�or how little�geology you already know. What�s more, they�re simply good reading, on-site or at home.

Author: Allen F. Glazner, Greg M. Stock
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Published: 08/01/2010
Series: Geology Underfoot
Pages: 299
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.08w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780878425686

About the Author
Glazner, Allen F.: - Allen F. Glazner is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native Californian, he holds a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles and has done research in the Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert from his undergraduate days at Pomona College.Stock, Greg M.: - Greg M. Stock was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada just north of Yosemite. He has a bachelor�s degree in geology from Humboldt State University and a PhD in earth science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Greg is Yosemite National Park�s first-ever park geologist.