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Sierra Nevada range

Highway 395 s fault still bubbles with potential volcanoes. The pressure from underneath raises the entire Sierra Nevada range by about a millimeter a year, tilting it up and away from the Mono Lake basin. Sometimes the pressure is released explosively. A volcano 250 years ago suddenly formed a new island in the middle of lake. [Pg.2]

A very sueeessful projeet began in the early 1980s when the Ben Holt Company (Pasadena, California) designed and eonstrueted a 10 MW air-eooled, elosed-loop binary eyele at their Mammoth Geothermal Plant, loeated on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. [Pg.137]

McConnell, L.L., J.S. LeNoir, S. Datta, and J.N. Seiber. 1998. Wet deposition of current-use pesticides in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, California, USA. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 17 1908-1916. [Pg.904]

The Sacramento Valley is a tectonically controlled basin bounded on the east by the Sierra Nevada, on the west by the Coast Ranges, and on the north by the Klamath Mountains. The alluvium of the valley reflects inputs from these bounding... [Pg.169]

The deposits of the San Joaquin Valley are derived from the Sierra Nevada on the East and the Coast Range on the West. The Sierra Nevada, a fault block that dips... [Pg.261]

Liu M, Shen YQ (1998) Sierra Nevada uplift A ductile link to mantle upwelling under the basin and range province. Geology 26(4) 299-302... [Pg.19]

Lindgren W (1911) The Tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California. USGS Prof Paper 73 226 p Molnar P, England P (1990) Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change chicken or... [Pg.116]

Poage MA, Chamberlain CP (2002) Stable isotopic evidence for a Pre-Middle Miocene rain shadow in the western Basin and Range Implications for the paleotopogaphy of the Sierra Nevada. Tectonics 21 16-1 -16-10... [Pg.117]

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