Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest - Carson Ranger District California Geology For the next seventeen year

For the next seventeen year

In recent years

The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California

for the first time

newlyweds Bert and Maud Sharp claimed their Lanfair Valley homestead in the scenic high desert country of the East Mojave

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest - Carson Ranger District California Geology For the next seventeen yearFrom a few miles northwest of Reno, the lands stretch to the south through two states and eight countries along the Carson Range, passing between Lake Tahoe and Carson City, then on to Sonora Peak on the crest and Topaz Lake at the foot. 2006 Scale: 1: 126,720