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Alameda County Geology Publications

PUB. NO. PUBLICATION NAME/DESCRIPTION PRICE
AMM 5 Aeromagnetic Map of the San Francisco-San Jose  Quadrangle, California, 1992, Scale 1:250,000 $12.00
B 183 Franciscan and Related Rocks and Their Significance in the Geology of Western California, 1964, scale 1:4,800,000 $8.00
B 185 Geology of the East Half of the Mt. Hamilton [15'] Quadrangle, Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, California, 1965, scale 1:62,500 $8.00
BGA 16 Bouguer Gravity Map of California: San Francisco Sheet, 1968, scale: 1:250,000 $12.00
RGM 5 Geologic Map of the San Francisco-San Jose Quadrangle, California, 1992, scale 1:250,000 (3 sheets only available: Sheet 1-Geologic Map, Sheet 2-Geologic Map Explanation, and Sheet 5-Recency of Faulting). Available only as rolled sheets. $20.00
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SP 109 Geologic Excursions in Northern California: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada (For Joint Meeting of Geological Society of America and Seismological Society of America), 1991, 130 p.
  • Geological Setting of the San Francisco Bay Area
  • San Francisco to Point Reyes: Both Sides of the San Andreas Fault
  • Quaternary Tectonics of the Northern San Andreas Fault, San Francisco Peninsula, Point Reyes, and Point Arena, California
  • Depositional and Other Features of the Merced Formation in Sea Cliff Exposures South of San Francisco, California
  • Tectonic Framework of the Loma Prieta Area
  • Field Trip Guide to the Geology of Sonoma County
  • Guide to the Geology of the Berkeley Hills, Central Coast Ranges, California
  • Soils, Paleosoils, and Quaternary Sediments Offset Along the Hayward Fault at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline, Richmond, California
  • Franciscan Complex, Coast Range Ophiolite and Great Valley Sequence: Pacheco Pass to Del Puerto Canyon, California
  • Sutter Buttes Field Trip Guide
  • Comparison of Structural and Metamorphic Histories of Terranes in the Western Metamorphic Belt, Sierra Nevada, California
 $10.00
SP 114 Field Guide to the Geology and Metamorphism of the Franciscan Complex and Western Metamorphic Belt of Northern California (for the International Symposium "The Transition from Basalt to Metabasalt: Environments, Processes, and Petrogenesis"), 1992, 78 p.
  • Metamorphism and Tectonic Origin of Franciscan Metabasites and a Field Trip Guide to Three Localities in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Tectonic Setting and Metamorphism of the Sierra Nevada, California
  • Metamorphic Features of the Smartville Complex, Northern Sierra Nevada, California
  • A Glimpse of the Central and Feather River Belts, Northern Sierra Nevada
  • Geology of the Eastern Belt of the Northern Sierra Nevada
 $10.00
SP 119 Geologic Field Trips in Northern California (For the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America), 1999, 254 p.
  • The Franciscan Complex, San Francisco Bay Area: A Record of Subduction Complex Processes
  • Sedimentary and Facies Architecture of High-Density Sediment-Gravity-Flow Deposits, Paleocene, Santa Lucia Range, California
  • Accretionary Tectonics of the Western Sierra Nevada Metamorphic Belt
  • A Discussion of Geology, Soils, Wines and History of the Napa Valley Region
  • Depositional and Other Features of the Merced Formation in Sea Cliff Exposures South of San Francisco, California
  • Mesozoic Convergent Margin of central California
  • The Del Puerto Ophiolite: Petrology and Tectonic Setting
  • The Hayward Fault--Source of the Next Big Quake?
  • Earthquakes on the Calaveras Fault: Fact or fiction? The Geology, Seismology and Paleoseismicity of the Calaveras Fault
  • The San Andreas Fault Zone Near Point Reyes: Late Quaternary Deposition, Deformation, and Paleoseismicity
  • Geology and Natural History of the Central Coast Ranges: Berkeley to Bodega Head, California
  • Sequence Stratigraphy and Incised Valley Architecture of the Domengine Formation, Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, California
  • Geology and Environmental Geochemistry of Mercury and Gold Deposits in the Northern part of the California Coast range Mercury Mineral Belt
  • Representative Industrial Mineral Mines of the San Francisco Bay Region: Sand and Gravel, Crushed Rock, and Limestone
  • Sutter Buttes
 $20.00

OFR 99-03

 Interpretation of Gravity, Magnetic and Seismic Refraction Data in Stanislaus County and Vicinity [parts of Alameda, Calaveras, Merced, San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Tuolumne counties], California, 1999

$15.00

OFR 87-04 Aeromagnetic Map of the San Francisco/San Jose 1° By 3° Quadrangle, California, 1987, scale 1:250,000 $8.00

 

Alameda County Geohazards & Environmental Geology Publications

CD 2001-04 GIS Files of the Official Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones, Central Coastal Region. CD contains 211 Alquist-Priolo (AP) Earthquake Faults Zones 7.5-minute quadrangles, affecting Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kern, Lake, Marin, Merced, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus and Yolo counties, and is current as of 12/2001. Data is provided as MapInfo .tab files, ESRI shape files, and .dxf export files. Also included is a digital version Special Publication 42, Fault-Rupture Zones in California, which explains the AP Act, the zoning program and associated regulations. SP 42 and the explanatory text can be viewed with Adobe® Acrobat Reader 5.0, included in the CD-ROM. $60.00 each or set of all 3 CD's for $150.00
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CD 2000-004 Digital Images of Official Maps of Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones of California, Central Coastal Region. This CD contains Adobe Acrobat (PDF) versions of 192 7.5-minute quadrangles of Official Earthquake Fault Zone Maps in Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kern, Lake, Napa, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, and Yolo counties. Please note that these are digital image files only, not GIS data files. $30.00
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SHZR 078 Seismic Hazard Zone Report for the San Leandro 7.5' Quadrangle, Alameda County, California, 2003 Download from SHMP
SHZR 079 Seismic Hazard Zone Report for the Redwood Point 7.5' Quadrangle, Alameda County, California, 2003 Download from SHMP
SHZR 080 Seismic Hazard Zone Report for the Oakland East 7.5' Quadrangle, Alameda County, California, 2003 Download from SHMP
SHZR 081 Seismic Hazard Zone Report for the Oakland West 7.5' Quadrangle, Alameda County, California, 2003 Download from SHMP
SHZR 082 Seismic Hazard Zone Report for the Hunters Point 7.5' Quadrangle, Alameda County, California, 2003 Download from SHMP
SHZR 090 Seismic Hazard Zone Report for the Newark 7.5' Quadrangle, Alameda County, California, 2003 Download from SHMP
SHZR 091 Seismic Hazard Zone Report for the Hayward 7.5' Quadrangle, Alameda County, California, 2003 Download from SHMP
SP 56 Geologic Evaluation of the General Electric Test Reactor Site, Vallecitos [Alameda County], California, 1979 $8.00
SP 61 Earthquake Planning Scenario for a Magnitude 8.3 Earthquake on the San Andreas fault in San Francisco Bay Area, 1982 $8.00
SP 78 Earthquake Planning Scenario for a Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake on the Hayward fault in San Francisco Bay Area, 1982 $30.00
SP 112 Planning Scenario for a Major Earthquake on the Rodgers Creek Fault in Northern San Francisco Bay Area, 1994 $25.00
SP 113 Proceedings of the Second Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area, 1992 $22.00
SR 97 Geologic and Engineering Aspects of San Francisco Bay Fill, 1969, 130 p., 4 plates, scale 1:80,000. Contains 6 papers on the topic, plus maps of Bay Area geology, bay mud thicknesses and bedrock contours. $8.00

OFR 95-14

 Landslide Hazards in the Hayward Quadrangle and Parts of the Dublin Quadrangle, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California¾ Landslide Hazards Identification Map No. 37, 1995, scale 1:24,000

$10.00

OFR 95-15

 Landslide Hazards in the Las Trampas Ridge Quadrangle and Parts of the Diablo Quadrangle, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California¾ Landslide Hazards Identification Map No. 38, 1995, scale 1:24,000

$10.00

OFR 88-12 Soil Development and Displacement Along the Hayward Fault, Volume I, Fremont [Alameda County], California, 1988 $15.00
OFR 82-23 Script and Slides for Earthquake Planning Scenario Presentation on the San Francisco Bay Area, California, 1982 $15.00
OFR 81-03 Summary Report: California Fault Evaluation Program, 1979-1980 Area — South San Francisco Bay Region (and Other Areas) [Alameda, Contra Costa, Mendocino, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties, California], 1981 $8.00
OFR 81-08 Recently Active Strands of the Greenville Fault, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara Counties, California, 1981 (map only) $8.00
OFR 81-09 Evidence for Recent Faulting, Calaveras and Pleasanton Faults, Diablo and Dublin [7.5'] Quadrangles, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California, 1981 (map only) $14.00
(Order by map name) Official Maps of Seismic Hazard Zones, Alameda County, scale 1:24,000 [color map]. Click here to see which quadrangles are available. Folded: $13.00
Rolled: $15.00

Alameda County Mineral Resource Publications

B 194 The Mineral Economics of the Carbonate Rocks and Limestone and Dolomite Resources of California, 1973, 60 p., 2 plates, scale 1:1,000,000 $8.00
B 197 Limestone, Dolomite, and Shell Resources of the Coast Ranges Province, California, 1978, 103 p., 2 plates, scale 1:1,000,000 and 1:62,500 $8.00
B 208 Zeolites in California, 1988, 73 p., 1 plate, scale 1:1,000,000 $8.00
SR 146 (PART I) Mineral Land Classification: Aggregate Materials in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area [Central California], 1986 $14.00
SR 146 (PART II) Mineral Land Classification: Aggregate Materials in the South San Francisco Bay Production-Consumption Region [Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, California], 1983 $20.00
OFR 96-03 Update of Mineral Land Classification: Aggregate Materials in the South San Francisco Bay Production-Consumption Region [Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties], 1996, scale: 1:125,000 $25.00