California

Geology Resources - California

• California State Minerals Information (USGS)
• California Geological Survey, Department of Conservation.
  • Mineral Resources
    • Mineral Resources References (Publications)
  • Mineral Production ("The California Geological Survey's Mineral Resources and Mineral Hazards Mapping Program (MRMHMP) provides general information about California's mineral production.")
  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2000 [PDF]
  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2001 [PDF]
  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2002 [PDF]
  • 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 [PDF]
  • California's Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2005 [PDF]
  • Fabulous Facts About Mineral Resources, from November/December 1999 issue [PDF]
  • List of Publications (A PDF online version is available at this web address.)
  • Map of California Principal Mineral - Producing Localities 1990 - 2000 [PDF]
• Bay Area Geology Links
• California Geology, presented by Allen Alden, on About: Geology.
• California State Mining and Mineral Museum - California State Parks
• California State University, Long Beach, Department of Geological Sciences and Center For Los Angeles Basin Subsurface Geology (Clabsg)
• California's Geology, presented by CERES.
• CSULB'S Geologic Tours of Southern California - Virtual Field Geology, by Ron Merritt Morris.
• 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.

• Geology of California, presented by Caltech Library System. “Finding materials on the geology of California entails using book, online, serial and map resources.”
• Geology of Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa County, presented by Wild Bird Center of Walnut Creek, California.
  • Mount Diablo's Mining History
• 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.
• Index of California Geology Field Sites and Topics, presented by Department of Geological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach, California.
• An Index to Online Geologic Field Trip Guides of California, presented by the California Geological Survey.
• The Marble Mountains - Geology (located in the Mojave Desert, in southeastern California near the tiny towns of Chambless and Cadiz.), presented by Ben Waggoner.
• Mineral and Fossil Museums, Exhibits, & Displays in the United States - California
• The Mountains of California, by John Muir, The Century Co., New York, 1894.
• “Rocks in Rocklin” - Rocklin Geology, by Dick Hilton, Geology Instructor, Sierra College.
  • “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.

  “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 Sierra Nevada Batholith as exposed in the Yosemite Valley area and western foothills of the Sierran Nevada, by Marty Giaramita, California State University, Stanislaus on the Virtual Yosemite web site.
• Southern California Geology, presented by Ruth Lebow.
• 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
• US Mineralogy Literature List on J. Adam's Mineral Page

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.

• Jean Ganné, Tailleur de Pierre, Limestone Stone Carver in Southern California (blogspot)

  • Halfway To France (blogspot)
• 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.