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The Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life

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From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there used to be gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn’t) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and the way it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country.
 
The Mountains That Remade America combines geology with history to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced day by day life in the USA prior to now and how they continue to take action as of late. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and latest society, Craig H. Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast have an effect on this mountain range has had at the American West.

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