Glacial Phenomena in Nevada. Interesting Discoveries by John Muir. Glacial Traces-Lateral Moraines-How the Valleys Were Formed. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Eureka, Nev., November 28, 1878.

• Language: unknown
• Published: San Francisco Daily Evening. Bulletin, Dec. 5, 1878 1878
• Subjects: Arctic; Augusta; Dome The; Eureka; Hot Creek; Nev; Dwarf birch; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1242

"The monuments of the Ice Age in the Great Basin have been greatly obscured and broken, many of the more ancient of them having perished altogether . in a great part [due] to the perishable character of the rocks of which they were made."" Muir relates in detail the great amount of ev...