Excerpt from Adventures in Scenery: A Popular Reader of California Geology An Introductory pre-view California: Here We Come California: Here We Are El Centro to Yreka The Behavior of Rivers The Geological Story Briefly Told The Geologic Map The Lava Plain of the North The Colorado Desert The Mojave Desert The Great Central Valley San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Mount Diablo The Sierra Nevada Range An Unique Region (owens Valley) Yosemite National Park The Mountains of the South The Great Valley of the South The Los Angeles Basin and Rancho la Brea Petroleum or Rock Oil Gold Agriculture Geology from a Motor Car Glossary Bibliography Index (outline of Chapter XXIII: Routes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H) A. San Diego via Salton Sea 85 Palm Springs to Los Angeles, P. 335. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.