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Yosemite Online Library—Geology and Glaciers
Yosemite Online Library

The following Yosemite books on geology and glaciers are available online, with the complete text and usually the original illustrations.

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• Rock falls from Glacier Point above Camp Curry, Yosemite National Park, California by Gerald F. Wieczorek and James B. Snyder (1999) (USGS website)
• “Formation of Yosemite Valley—How Yosemite Valley was Created from Glaciers” (1989)
• François Matthes and the Marks of Time; Yosemite and the High Sierra by François E. Matthes (1962). A posthumous collection of popular articles by François Matthes, mostly from the Sierra Club Bulletin
• The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park by Dr. N. King Huber (1987). Authorative description of Yosemite geology.
• A Brief Story of the Geology of Yosemite Valley by M. E. Beatty (1943)
• The Devil Postpile National Monument, (1952) by Richard J. Hartesveldt
• Geologic History of the Yosemite Valley by François E. Matthes (1930). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 160. A classic study in glacial geology. (NPS)
• “Geology of Yosemite National Park” Handbook of Yosemite National Park by Ansel F. Hall (1922)
• “The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley was Formed,” The Yosemite, by John Muir (1912)
• Sketch of Yosemite National Park and an Account of the Origin of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys by François E. Matthes (1912) (NPS)
• The Yosemite, by John Muir (1912)
• A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierras of California by Joseph LeConte (1875)
• Principal Waterfalls of the World (1945) by C. Frank Brockman
• Studies in the Sierra, by John Muir (1874-1875; 1915-1921; 1950),
• “Yosemite Glaciers,” New York Tribune, by John Muir (1871)
• Up and Down California in 1860-1864; The Journal of William H. Brewer , by William H. Brewer (1930)
• The Yosemite Book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California, by Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr. (1869)

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