The Ancient Glaciers of the Sierra.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

109

Original Date

12-1-1880

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""No other mountain chain on the globe seems to be so rich in emphatic, well preserved glacial monuments .... Not a peak, ridge, dome, or mere rock, canon, lake-basin, forest, or stream, but in some way explains the past existence and modes of action of flowing, grinding ice. For, notwithstanding the post glacial agents ... the latter are so enduring and so heavily emphasized, they still rise in sublime relief, clear and legible, through every after inscription, whether of the mighty avalanche, the torrent, or universal, eroding atmosphere."" The article gives the dimensions of the five main tributaries of the great Merced glacier at their period of greatest volume, areas covered, and work accomplished.

Publication

The Californian [San Francisco], v. 2, no. 12

Page/Column

pp. 550-557

Excerpt/Portion of

Excerpts are reprinted in no. 136

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 308, pp. 173-195; no. 341, v. 5, pp. 198-[221].

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "The Ancient Glaciers of the Sierra." (1880). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 192.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/192