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Rocks & soils

Events:

Exploring The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

Articles:

A Coast to Explore: Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California
Walking the Line
San Gregorio State Beach
What is quicksand?
Climbing the Waves at Castle Rock State Park
A Life in Geologic Time
The Saved and the Dammed
The Keeper of the Waters
Edgewood Preserve
Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region
From the Inside Out
Letter from the Publisher
Out of an Ancient Sea
Upscale Wilderness
Speak of the Devil
The Checkerspot Comes Home
Black Coal, Bright Flowers
Shifting Sands
The Fremont Peak Experience
Tafoni Around the Bay
The Mount Diablo Buckwheat One Year Later
At Home off the Range
Ring Mountain Rocks!
The Rock in the Redwoods
Carquinez Breakthrough
When was the last volcanic eruption in the Bay Area? Where was it?
Betting on Point Molate
Beachfront Property
Voice of the Volcano
Down to the Sea Again
Taking Refuge
Peninsula Treasure
Saved by Grit and Grace
The Fire Down Below
What, and where, are the oldest rocks in the Bay Area?
Legacy of the Red Ore
The Vale of Tesla
Goat Rock State Beach
A Landscape Renewed by Fire
School of Rock
Stories in Stone
Pining for the Pinnacles
California Rocks! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State

Videos:

A Trip to the Headlands with Doris Sloan, Rock Star
Salt Point Geology and History
Read the Rocks at Castle Rock

Organizations:

California Geological Survey Library
California Geological Survey - Department of Conservation
Coastside Land Trust (San Mateo County)
Northern California Geological Society
US Geological Survey - Earth Science Info Center
Stevens & Permanente Creeks watershed Council
California Academy of Sciences