Glacial Phenomena in Nevada. Interesting Discoveries by John Muir. Glacial Traces-Lateral Moraines-How the Valleys Were Formed. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Eureka, Nev., November 28, 1878.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

084

Original Date

12-5-1878

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

"The monuments of the Ice Age in the Great Basin have been greatly obscured and broken, many of the more ancient of them having perished altogether ... in a great part [due] to the perishable character of the rocks of which they were made."" Muir relates in detail the great amount of evidence he has discovered of a past glacial history, describing the gradual but orderly transition from an elevated tableland through various forms, from ""a slow dessication and decay to present conditions of sage and sand.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening. Bulletin, Dec. 5, 1878

Page/Column

p. 4, cols. 1-2

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 341, v. 8, pp. 184-[194]; no. 350, pp. 184-[194]

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Glacial Phenomena in Nevada. Interesting Discoveries by John Muir. Glacial Traces-Lateral Moraines-How the Valleys Were Formed. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Eureka, Nev., November 28, 1878." (1878). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 64.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/64