California

Geology Resources - California

• California State Minerals Information (USGS)
• California Geological Survey, Department of Conservation.
  • Mineral Resources
    • Mineral Resources References (Publications)

  • California – Geotour – Online Geological Field Trips, compiled by California Geological Survey.

  • 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]

  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2006 [PDF]

  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2007 [PDF]

  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2008 [PDF]

  • California’s Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2009 [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, on About: Geology.

• California – Geotour – Online Geological Field Trips, compiled by California Geological Survey.

• California State Mining and Mineral Museum – California State Parks
• California State University, Long Beach, Department of Geological Sciences
• 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.

• 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.)

• 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 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.

• 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.

• A Location Guide for Rockhounds, (PDF) Collected by Robert C. Beste, PG, St. Louis, Missouri: Hobbitt Press, 2nd ed., December 1996, 148 pp. (Includes chapters on “Mineral Locations by State,” “Appendix and Glossary,” and “Bibliography.”)

• 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” (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.)

• 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.

• State of California – GeoPortal
• “Touring the Clear Lake Volcanics,” Reported by Dan Day (photos of rhyolite tuff)
• 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