Geology Resources – California

• California State Minerals Information (USGS)
• California Geological Survey, Department of Conservation.
  • Mineral Resources
    • California Geological Survey Publications
  • California – Geotour – Online Geological Field Trips, compiled by California Geological Survey.
  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production   (California Geological Survey’s Mineral Resources.)
  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production – California Geological Survey
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2000
      
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2001
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2002
      
    • California’s “Nonfuel Mineral Exploration 2003,” David R. Wilburn, U.S. Geological Survey, (Originally published in Mining Engineering, v. 56, no. 5, May 2004, p. 25-37.) (Available in Rich Text – RTF format)
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2004
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2005
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2006
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2007
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2008
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2009
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2010
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2011
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2012
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2013
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2014
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2015
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2016
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2017
    • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2018
  • California Geological Survey Maps & Publications  (scroll down)
  • California Geological Survey Publications  
  • California Mines and Mineral Resources – Department of Conservation Maps.
  • Fabulous Facts About Mineral Resources, from November/December 1999 issue.  (This document is available on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)

• Alabama Hills: Movie Locations, Arches & Photography, on California Through My Lens.
• California Geological Survey GeoTour:  “The California Geotour is an interactive index of Web pages of geologic field trip guides and related Web sites compiled by the California Geological Survey (CGS) for the benefit of all who have wondered about California’s geologic features.”
• California Geology, on About: Geology.
• California – Geotour – Online Geological Field Trips, compiled by California Geological Survey.
• California Rockhounding Location Guide & Map
• California State GeoPortal
• California State Mining and Mineral Museum – California State Parks.
• California State University, Long Beach, Department of Geological Sciences
• California’s Geology & Plate Tectonics – California Geography, with Professor Jeremy Patrich (YouTube video), January 6, 2021.
• California’s Mineral Hazards, California Department of Conservation.
• El Dorado Mineral and Gem Society, Placerville, California
• Ferndale, Humboldt County, California – Main Street – Field Trips by Ellin Beltz.
• “A Field Trip Transect of the Northern Sierra Via Interstate 80,” by Richard P. Hilton, Department of Geosciences, Sierra College, Journal of the Sierra College Natural History Museum, Spring 2009, vol. 2, no. 1.  (The original link is no longer available, although the site can be viewed on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
• Fractures in Granite – “Mechanics of curved surfaces, with application to surface-parallel cracks” (pdf), by Stephen J. Martel, Department of Geology and Geosphysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, L20303, doi:10.1029/2011GL049354, October 20, 2011, 6 pp.  (Photos include:  “Figure 1. Sheeting joints near the summit of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park. They bound shingle-like slabs that are on the order of 1 m thick. Photograph courtesy of Greg Stock.”  “Figure 4. Locations of topographic features, predictions of sheeting joints, and occurrences of sheeting joints near Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park…(c) Photograph looking east across the southern portion of the study area.  Sheeting joints decorate virtually every exposure in this picture….(d) Photograph looking southeast at the slope 0.7 km north of Olmsted Point. Sheeting joints are abundant in the saddle-shaped upper part of the picture but scarce in the bowl-shaped lower portion.” (This article is presented on Stone Quarries and Beyond with the permission of the author.)
• Geologic Map of California, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.
• Geologic Map of the San Francisco Bay Region, Scientific Investigations Map 2918, by R. W. Graymer, B. C. Moring, G.J. Saucedo, C. M. Wentworth, E. E. Brabb, and K. L. Knudsen, U. S. Geological Survey publication.
• “Geology and geological history of California” section of Wikipedia.
• Geology in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Shallow Sky.
• Geology Links, California State University, Stanislaus.
• Geology of California – YouTube Videos List
• “Geology of the Clear Lake Volcanic Field,” reported by Dan Day, Photography by Keil Albert, Mark Detterman, Phil Garbutt, Northern California Geological Society.
• Geology of the Humboldt Bay Area – Field Trips by Ellin Beltz.
• Geology Museum, University of California, Department of Geological and Geophysics, Berkeley, CA 94720; (510) 642-4330, 642-3993.
• Guide to the Geology of Mount Diablo State Park, Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.
• Interactive map of the geology of California, American Geosciences Institute.
• The Marble Mountains – Geology (located in the Mojave Desert, in southeastern California near the tiny towns of Chambless and Cadiz.), presented by Ben Waggoner.
• “Mechanics of curved surfaces, with application to surface-parallel cracks,” by Stephen J. Martel, Department of Geology and Geosphysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, L20303, doi:10.1029/2011GL049354, October 20, 2011, 6 pp.  (Photos include:  “Figure 1. Sheeting joints near the summit of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park. They bound shingle-like slabs that are on the order of 1 m thick. Photograph courtesy of Greg Stock.”  “Figure 4. Locations of topographic features, predictions of sheeting joints, and occurrences of sheeting joints near Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park…(c) Photograph looking east across the southern portion of the study area.  Sheeting joints decorate virtually every exposure in this picture….(d) Photograph looking southeast at the slope 0.7 km north of Olmsted Point. Sheeting joints are abundant in the saddle-shaped upper part of the picture but scarce in the bowl-shaped lower portion.”  (This article is presented on Stone Quarries and Beyond with the permission of the author.)
• Mineral and Fossil Museums, Exhibits, & Displays in the United States – California, on mindat.org.
• Mines and Mineral Resources – California Department of Conservation Maps.
• The Mountains of California, by John Muir, The Century Co., New York, 1894.
• Northern California Geological Society Geology Links
• Oakland Geology Blog, Focused on, near and under Oakland, California, since 2007, by Andrew Alden.
  • Archive for the ‘Quarries and mines’ Category on the Oakland Geology Blog, by Andrew Alden.
• Rocks and Geology in the San Francisco Bay Region, Bulletin 2195, by Philip W. Stoffer, U S. Geological Survey publication.
• Rock and Mineral Clubs in California
• “Rocks in Rocklin” – Rocklin Geology, by Dick Hilton, Geology Instructor, Sierra College.   (This web site is now available on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
  • “A Field Trip Transect of the Northern Sierra Via Interstate 80,” by Richard P. Hilton, Department of Geosciences, Sierra College, Journal of the Sierra College Natural History Museum, Spring 2009, vol. 2, no. 1.  (The original link is no longer available, although the site can be viewed on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)

  “A Naturalist’s Transect along the I-80 Corridor in California: Rocklin to Donner Pass,” by J. L. Medeiros, Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, Sierra College, Journal of the Sierra College Natural History Museum, Spring 2009, vol. 2, no. 1.  (The original link is no longer available, although the site can be viewed on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)

• San Francisco rocks!  The fascinating history behind Bay Area geology, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, by Jonathan Howell, San Francisco Park Stewardship Intern.
• “Streetcar 2 Subduction” – Scientists create Google Earth geology tour of the Bay Area, by Liz Kreutz, December 9, 2019, ABC 7 News.
• The University of California Museum of Paleontology Exhibit Halls – the Geology Wing (Berkeley, California)
• University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) – Earth Sciences
• U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet on California

Stone Carvers, Stone Cutters, etc., in California

• Historical California Cemetery Stone & Monument Carvers & Dealers
• Arrigo Fantozzi, Marble and Granite Works, Jackson, Amador County, California, presented on the Amador Gold.net web site. This site includes history and photographs of the marble works building and tools of the trade as the marble works was when it closed. (Arrigo Fantozzi died June 2, 1972.)
  

  This site includes history and photographs of the marble works building and tools of the trade as the marble works was when it closed.

• Gary D. Grossman, Sculptor, G. Grossman’s Fine Art – Visit Gary Grossman’s web site to view photographs of California soapstone, Colorado alabaster, Kansas Tuxedo limestone, Kansas Cottonwood limestone, Virginia steatite, Wisconsin sandstone, Nova Scotia blue anhydrite, and Brazilian soapstone.
  • Gary D. Grossman’s Sculpture Portfolio on Facebook
• Oleg Lobykin, Sculptor, East Palo Alto, California
  • Stonesculpt:  Custom Stone Carving
  • Oleg Lobykin’s Biography