Geology of Nevada: Field Guides

The Silver State is a geologist's playground, with great topographic relief exposing spectacular geology. Cutting a wide swath that straddles U.S. 50, "Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada" explores twenty-on diverse walking and driving tours from Lake Tahoe and Reno east to Great Basin National Park.

Trip on U.S. 93 from the Wickenburg-Kingman area in Arizona, through Elko County, Nevada.

Introduction provides an excellent overview of Nevada geology. A guide to what some call America's loneliest road Highway 50 between Lake Tahoe and Great Basin National Park. It takes the reader through historic mining towns, the Nevada gold belt, ghost towns, petroglyph sites, rock collecting localities, and wildlife viewing areas along the way.

Road log and trip guide, sediment-hosted precious-metal deposits of northern Nevada. Reno to Pinson, Enfield Bell, Maggie Creek, Windfall, Alligator Ridge gold mines, and & the Taylor silver mine, with a return road log to Reno.

Road log and trip guide, precious-metal mineralization in hot springs systems, San Francisco to McLaughlin Mine in California, and Paradise Peak mine, McGinness Hills, Buckhorn mine, Beowawe-White Canyon area, Buckskin Mountain, and Sleeper mine in Nevada, with references,