Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition x
1 Introduction 1
Plate Tectonics 1
Tale of Three Trenches 4
San Andreas Fault 5
Basin and Range 5
High Cascades 6
Whither California? 6
2 Sierra Nevada 9
Subduction and Obduction 9
Stacked Terranes 12
Sierra Nevada Batholith 18
Glaciers 23
Gold 25
Sierra Nevada Road Guides 31
Interstate 80: Sacramento-Reno 31
US 50: Sacramento-Carson City 36
CA 20: Marysville-Emigrant Gap 41
CA 41: Fresno-Yosemite National Park 45
CA 49: Mariposa-Placerville 49
CA 49: Placerville-Sierraville 56
CA 70: Feather River Road, Marysville-Hallelujah Junction 65
CA 89: South Lake Tahoe-Graeagle 74
Lake Tahoe 77
CA 140: Merced-Yosemite National Park 81
Yosemite National Park 84
CA 180: Fresno-Kings Canyon National Park 89
3 Klamath Mountains 93
Terranes 93
Mining 103
Klamath Mountains Roadguides 105
Interstate 5: Redding-Dunsmuir 105
Interstate 5: Dunsmuir-Oregon 109
US 199: Crescent City-Oregon 115
CA 299: Areata-Redding 119
4 Coast Range 129
Franciscan Complex 129
Great Valley Sequence 134
Plate Boundaries 136
Younger Rocks 140
Earthquakes 140
Landslides 146
Where Water Meet Land 148
Point Reyes National Seashore 155
San Francisco Bay Area 159
Roads North of the Bay Area 171
US 101: San Francisco-Leggett 171
US 101: Leggett-Eureka 177
US 101: Eureka-Oregon 181
CA 1: Golden Gate-Point Arena 186
CA 1: Point Arena-Leggett 193
CA 20: Calpella-Williams 197
CA 29: Vallejo-Lakeport 205
Roads South of the Bay Area 210
US 101: San Francisco-Salinas 210
US 101: Salinas-San Luis Obispo 216
CA 25: CA 198-Hollister 220
CA 41: Morro Bay-Interstate 5 223
CA 58: Santa Margarita-Interstate 5 228
CA 1: San Francisco-Monterey 234
CA 1: Monterey-San Luis Obispo 244
5 The Great Valley 253
The Trench Shifts West 254
Great Valley Road Guides 257
Interstate 5: Sacramento-Redding 257
Interstate 5: Sacramento-US 99 263
Interstate 80: San Francisco-Sacramento 269
6 High Cascades on the Modoc Plateau 273
Volcanic Rocks 274
Shasta 278
Lassen Volcanic National Park 279
Medicine Lake Volcano and Lava Beds National Monument 288
High Cascades and the Modoc Plateau Road Guides 294
US 97: Weed-Oregon 294
CA 36: Red Bluff-Susanville 297
US 395: Susanville-Oregon 304
Surprise Valley Side Trip 308
CA 299: Redding-Fall River Mills 311
CA 299: Fall River Mills-Alturas 316
7 Basin and Range 321
Normal Faults 322
Long Valley Caldera 322
Desert Landscape 325
Basin and Range Road Guides 326
US 395: Bishop-Nevada 326
US 395: Reno-Susanville 343
Glossary 347
Selected Reading 352
Index 359
