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Do you see wreaths of vapor? Or the lurid light of molten lava? (D. Mayer photo) |
Last September I toured the Mono Basin in the company of the great pioneering geologist Israel Russell, author of
Quaternary history of Mono Valley, California. He wasn't there in person of course, having left this world more than a century ago. But I had read his report. Russell was an able writer and contagiously enthusiastic about his subject, so his spirit was very much with ...