Lexicographical Neighbors of Sierran
Literary usage of Sierran
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"... entitled ''The Ozarkian and Its Significance in Theoretical Geology,"* that
the term Ozarkian was preoccupied and might properly be replaced by sierran, ..."
2. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
"THE sierran SUBALPINE FOREST. PINUS-TSUGA ASSOCIATION. Extent.—The subalpine
forest reaches its northern Limit along the Pacific in the neighborhood of the ..."
3. Songs of Yosemite by Harold Symmes (1911)
"The Scots may vaunt their highland, The English praise the lea, But a green
sierran meadow Surpasses all for me. A lake of emerald grasses, Wind-winnowed ..."
4. The California Spotted Owl: A Technical Assessment of Its Current Status. by Jared Verner (1994)
"Tulare County, in sierran mixed-conifer forest with giant sequoias, ... For example,
three samples from sierran mixed-conifer forests produced a combined ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"The sierran Period.—A period of extensive erosion and canyon cutting, probably
occupying the ... This may be called, following Le Conte, the sierran Period. ..."
6. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences, William Sidney Tangier Smith (1904)
"The sierran Period.—A period of extensive erosion and canyon cutting, probably
occupying the ... This may be called, following Le Conte, the sierran Period. ..."
7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"uplift was still more marked.5 The earliest sierran folding of which the history
is well known, was at the end of the Jurassic period. ..."
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