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From crossing of Old Reese R road on East Walker to Glenns 10
Spring up along the summits & [deluge] their hot-steaming sides. The porous sandy dusty flanks [have] [not] [time] to absorb the torrents & are shed off in thick clayey sandy gravelly sheets into the gulches in [innumerable] small gorges [pour] [the] sudden lavish [tribute] into the main channels & roll on in mighty floods. The first [wave] [advancing] [with] a curling breaker like front 10 or 15 ft high rolling boulders tons in weight [sweeping] all before it. This is the so-called Cloudburst was so fortunate as to go [over] the ground of a cloudburst a month or two after it had fallen & [traced] its [formation] not to [one] [point] but to the whole area of the mtnss reached by what evidently was only a sudden shower. No such thing as Cloudburst in the
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Glens to summit of Mt Grant 30 vulgar meaning of the term. Anything among the conditions that tends to hold the rain for a time makes the final down rush all the more sudden & destructive. Along the W flanks of the Carson are a series of sedimentary beds of [white] [firm] ground material seemingly volcanic in origin like pipe clay with clay like [divisions] when sun dried. These all dip to the SW. Crossing the W Walker Val to the next low range the same beds occur with [exposures] 2 or 3000 ft thick with some [sandstone]. [grey] & pebbly in places. Even the [unaltered] [lava] itself partakes of the same dip. The [point] or [rather] line of the upheaving force not apparent
Date Original
1878
Source
Original journal dimensions: 10 x 17 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel25Journal06P028-029.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
