Geological Ramblings in Yosemite

The incomparable Yosemite Valley has arrested the attention of both science and the public since its discovery in the 1850s. N. King Huber, a lifelong student of the Valley s geologic history, writing as both scientist and science historian, intersperses these essays with the struggles of early naturalists to understand the Valley's origin and his own captivating stories of the waterfalls, glacial sculpting, lava flows, and landslides that shaped the region. James G. Moore, geologist and author of Exploring the Highest Sierra