I am moving from Arizona to Olympic Valley just outside of Lake Tahoe. The Sierra's are a clean slate in terms of my geological knowledge. It's good to understand the ground under your feet. Thanks so much for this!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I appreciate all of your hard work in creating these lectures and your willingness to share this information freely! Amazing :D
@8:15, it's ok, this is a grown-up forum. The Donner party event is a historical event, well documented. They got stuck in a bad location during a bad winter but, they ran out of food. They had to eat the bodies of their dead because they couldn't hunt in those conditions. Awkward but straightforward. P.S. "they don't have a lot of vegetation up there, so...". People back then we not so concerned with salads or, getting their daily fruits and vegetables. I don't see them holding off on eating just because they don't have arugula hearts. Hell, I bet they never even heard of ranch dressing.
great job, i read the same books and this lady nailed it. now im going to bring sanity back to geology, no more floating continents and restless rock moving around like boats... no there's a reason why the mountains are moving around and it's not tectonic tectonic is an effect it's not the cause I'm bringing sanity back.