Some General Travel and Highway Links:
Experience the old west in Pony Express Territory, Nevada - Pony Express Territory The Official Hwy 50 Survival Guide: Loneliest Road in America - TravelNevada.com
US 50 - The Loneliest Road in Nevada - CmdrMark dot Com
U.S. Route 50 in Nevada - Wikipedia
US50 -- Nevada - US50 Coast to Coast
Nevada's Highway 50 - VIA Magazine, California State Automobile Association
History and Geology Links:
Captain James Hervey Simpson and Highway 50 - The Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Geology of Nevada; a discussion to accompany the Geologic map of Nevada (USGS): Stewart (1980), NBMG Special Publication 4 (link to NBMG sales info).
Books I Own and Recommend:
Geology of the Great Basin
Traveling America's Loneliest Road
Sagebrush Country
Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs
Hot Springs of Nevada
4 comments:
Have you read "The Broken Land: Adventures in Great Basin Geology" by Frank DeCourten? If so, what's your opinion of it? It seems a notable absence from your list, but perhaps that's because it's not as focused on Highway 50?
Callan, I do have this book, but overlooked it, and probably haven't read through it enough. I really should read this! Just scanning it, I see some things that I've not seen elsewhere, like info about supergene enrichment at copper deposits, something about the Owl Club in Eureka...
And a diagram I might be able to use at work...
And personal or personable introductions to his chapters.
Thanks for pointing this out! :)
I find book recommendations valuable. I may not need them when I first see them, but later when I am looking for something on a given topic I'll go back and try to find that original recommendation from a trusted geosource. If I'm going to give my dollars to Amazon instead of a local bookstore, I'd be happy to see a geoblogger benefit from that in anyway possible!
Cian, thanks for the endorsement! It's a tentative experiment so far, one I haven't done much with.
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