President Obama’s declaration that a large swath of Coast Range land will become the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument pleased a lot of people, including lovers of rocks. The park displays ...
“Over the longer term, we expect substantial production growth to come from unconventional reservoirs such as tight sandstones and shales,” Occidental said in a regulatory filing for the spin-off. “As ...
The earth and geologic time. Earth materials -- Geologic time -- Plate tectonics -- Southern California through geologic time. Overview of the geologic history of Southern California -- Proterozoic ...
FOLLOWING the earlier studies of the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the mining districts of California, there has more recently been an immense amount of detailed and accurate work devoted to ...
There’s something exciting about learning how things came to look the way they do. It’s what makes tour guides so popular and why that old neighbor who’s lived on the block for decades is so ...
As sea otters recolonize a California estuary, they are restoring its degraded geology by keeping populations of overgrazing marsh crabs in check, a new study shows. The crabs' appetite for plant ...
"San Andreas Fault" explores the geological features and movements of the San Andreas Fault in California. It details how urbanization has obscured the fault's trace, yet it remains visible through ...
During 35 years of teaching geology at UCSB, Art Sylvester led more than 300 field trips, mostly across Southern California, providing the professor repeat lessons on the region’s many ridges, canyons ...