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This new field-trip guide from The Geological Society of America takes readers on a six-day, west-to-east geologic journey across the Mesozoic magmatic arc of the central Sierra Nevada in California, ...

Reno is ground zero for interesting geology. With the Sierra Nevada mountain range to the west and the Great Basin to the east, seemingly endless research opportunities exist within easy reach of ...

Boulder, Colo., USA – In an addition to Geosphere's ongoing themed issue series, "Geodynamics and Consequences of Lithospheric Removal in the Sierra Nevada, California," Craig H. Jones of the ...

Once upon a time, setting a landscape aside to preserve its natural beauty was a novel idea. Today, after the blossoming of endless calendars, coffee-table books and photo albums celebrating America's ...

One of the longest ongoing controversies in Earth science concerns the age of California's Sierra Nevada, the tallest mountain range in the continental United States. Some argue that the mountains ...

Parts of western U.S. were once covered in thousands of feet of lava from dozens of Yellowstone-size supervolcanoes that erupted between 40 and 20 million years ago, scientists have said. These ...

One of the longest ongoing controversies in Earth science concerns the age of California’s Sierra Nevada, the tallest mountain range in the continental United States and site of Yosemite National Park ...