This up-to-date textbook, suitable for the college market, is devoted to the complex geology of California, including the recently discovered tectonic history o

Twenty vignettes focus on particular geologic scenes, relationships, and features of southern California's active landscape.

This introduction to the geology of California covers all major geomorphic provinces and is organized from north to south.

California's geology makes headlines when faults shift, volcanoes puff steam, and coastal bluffs fall into the sea. This book explores the state's recent rumbli

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of Cal