Clarence King Quote

The western margin of this continent [North America] is built of a succession of mountain chains folded in broad corrugations, like waves of stone upon whose seaward base beat the mild, small breakers of the Pacific.


Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, Chapter I (p. 1)


The western margin of this continent [North America] is built of a succession of mountain chains folded in broad corrugations, like waves of stone...

The western margin of this continent [North America] is built of a succession of mountain chains folded in broad corrugations, like waves of stone...

The western margin of this continent [North America] is built of a succession of mountain chains folded in broad corrugations, like waves of stone...

The western margin of this continent [North America] is built of a succession of mountain chains folded in broad corrugations, like waves of stone...