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Kimes Entry Number
084
Original Date
12-5-1878
Publication
San Francisco Daily Evening. Bulletin, Dec. 5, 1878
Page/Column
p. 4, cols. 1-2
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.
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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.""