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Glaciation in the Sierra Nevada Geomorphic Province

    I am currently taking a Geology of California class for my minor.  Very interesting stuff.  Due to a trip to Sacramento a few weeks ago, I was unable to go to our field trip.  To make up missing the field trip, I had to write a paper about one of the Geomorphic provinces of California.  I chose to write about some of the Glaciation of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.      I will say, this paper is not my best.  It can be way better.  My fault for doing it two days before it was due.  Even though it is not the best I can do, it does hold some interesting information.  As I have done with past research papers, I post it here just as a record of some of the work I have done in school.  Why not?  Glaciation in the Sierra Nevada Geomorphic Province John Trammell California State University, San Bernardino March 23, 2015 ABSTRACT     The Sierra Nevada Mountains, a continuous range of high mountains extending 385 miles from the Mojave Desert to the Cascade Mountain Range (Raub