Title

Living Glaciers of California.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

014

Original Date

12-1-1872

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

During October of 1871, in a wide amphitheater between the bases of Red and Black Mountains two of the dominating summits of the Merced group, Muir discovered a new kind of mud. From his studies he recognized it as ""Glacier mud, mountain meal!"" He observed that ""The muddy stream issued from a bank of fresh quarried stones and dirt, that was sixty or seventy feet in height."" In ascending to the summit, he discovered that it was a living glacier. To substantiate his discovery, he set stakes on two different sheets of ice and found that there was a continuous flow in both.

Publication

The Overland Monthly v. 9 no. 6.

Page/Column

p. 547-549

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 13C; no. 18; no. 52; no. 144; no. 189, pp. 28-35; no. 341, v. 4, pp. 32-[40]; v. 9, pp. 344-352; no. 366, v. I, pp. 344-352.

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Living Glaciers of California." (1872). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986). 77.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/77