Sierra Nevada: References & Edit History
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On the natural history of the Sierra Nevada, classic accounts of explorations are found in Roderick Peattie (ed.), The Sierra Nevada (1947); John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (1911, reissued 1990), a classic of geographic writing, and The Wilderness World of John Muir, compiled by Edwin Way Teale (1954, reissued 1982); and Tracy I. Storer and Robert L. Usinger, Sierra Nevada Natural History: An Illustrated Handbook (1963). Analyses of the geology of the mountains are found in John L. Burnett, “Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin,” California Geology, 24(7):119–127 (1971); Edward B. Scott, The Saga of Lake Tahoe: A Complete Documentation of Lake Tahoe’s Development over the Last One Hundred Years (1957); and Mary Hill, Geology of the Sierra Nevada (1975). The climate is detailed in John W. James, “A Record-Breaking Sierra Nevada Snowfall: Its Meteorologic and Topographic Causes,” in American Meteorological Society, Third Conference on Mountain Meteorology (1984), pp. 144–146; and David H. Miller, Snow Cover and Climate in the Sierra Nevada (1955).
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Primary Contributors
- Armand J. Eardley
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John W. James
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno. State Climatologist for Nevada. An authority on the alpine environment.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Glaciers in Californias Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene. | Jan 31, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Sierra Nevada Mountain Range Rises Rapidly. | Mar 25, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Sierra Nevada Mountains. | Feb 21, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Central Sierra Historical Society - Geology Of The Sierra Nevada. | Feb 21, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mr.Nussbaum - Sierra Nevada Range, United States. | Apr 17, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - In Photos: The Magnificent Sierra Nevada Mountains. | Mar 18, 2016 | ||
| The valleys were carved by glaciers, not rivers. | Apr 28, 2010 | ||
| Geologic time data updated. | Oct 06, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Sierra Nevada. | Jul 27, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 16, 2007 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Aug 08, 2006 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 08, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |