Southern California has been described in many contexts as a land of variety and abundance. This happy designation is quite appropriate when applied geologically, as the region is one of numerous and remarkably diverse rock types, mineral deposits, structural elements, and geomorphic features. The ...
Francis Dam. Reading the rocks like pages in a book, Geology Underfoot in Southern California offers an inside view of the southland's active and sometimes enigmatic landscape. 308 pages, 6 x 9, paperbackItem #287, ISBN 978-0-87842-698-0Regular price $26.00 ...
The southern San Joaquin basin is a prolific oil-producing area that has had a complex tectonic and depositional history. It originated as the southern part of a large forearc basin in the late Mesozoic, was affected by both compressional and extensional tectonics in the Paleogene, and underwent...
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CALIFORNIA The principal engineering problems that confront the geologist in San Francisco Bay are the strength of foundations, settlement of ground due to imposed load, stability of side slopes, support of piles, and source of borrow sand for fill... PD...
We included Strike-Slip faults both right-lateral and left-lateral, and while these faults are not responsible for mountain building, the are responsible for the transverse mountain range of southern California when a series of fault lines intersect. The Formation of Coal and the Carboniferous ...
Engineering geology in Southern California: Richard Lung and Richard Proctor, eds., 389 p., Association of Engineering Geologists, P.O. Box 1242 Arcadia, C... GA Kiersch 被引量: 0发表: 1970年 Engineering geology in Southern California : Richard Lung and Richard Proctor , eds., 389 p., ...
图书Report on the Geology of Northern and Southern California; Embracing the Mineral and Agricultural Resources of Those Sections, with Statistics of the 介绍、书评、论坛及推荐
Field-Trip Guide to the Southeastern Foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains In Santa Clara County, California This field trip is an introduction to the geology of the southeastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in southern Santa Clara County. Seven stops inc... PW Stoffer,P Messina 被引...
A striking geological formation in Southern California. Malpe, India Thonsepar These four small islands contain unique hexagonal rock formations. Ephrata, Washington Monster Rock An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders. ...