Schaffer J.P. The geomorphic evolution of the Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada landscapes: solving the riddles in the rocks

Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1997. — 388 p.Background on the Sierra Nevada
Riddles in the Rocks
Encounters with the Sierra Nevada
An Overview of the Sierra Nevada
Previous Views of Yosemite Valley
Whitney’s Faulty Hypothesis
Muir’s Mighty Snow-Flowers
The Blind Men and the Elephant
The Fateful Direction
Matthes, the Final Arbiter
A Newborn Classic
After Professional Paper
Sierran Glaciation
Introduction to Glaciology
Ice Ages and Glaciations
Plausible Moraines and Plausible Glaciers
Implausible Moraines and Implausible Glaciers
Little Yosemite Valley’s Glacial History
Illilouette Creek Valley’s Glacial History
Tcnaya Canyon’s Glacial History
Yosemite Valley’s Glacial History
Lake Yosemite, its Myth and Reality
The Sierra’s Other Glaciated River Canyons
The Case for Major Glacial Erosion
The Case against Major Glacial Erosion
Sierran Uplift
Previous Methods of Evaluating Uplift
Quantifying Late Cenozoic Uplift
The Big Picture
Birth of a Granitic Yosemite Valley
Reconstructing Yosemite Valley over the last 65 Million Years
Epilogue: Science, the Sierra Nevada, and the World