A Bibliography of the Geology, etc., of California. 



ductions of Los Angeles; country north of the American River; 

 mineral district of the upper Sacramento Valley ; geology of the 

 northern coast mountains ; local geology of the northern coast 

 mountains ; Carboniferous limestone of the eastern part of Shasta 

 County ; Trinity County ; structure of the Sacramento Valley ; Ter- 

 tiary rocks and other deposits of the Sierra Nevada ; placer mining ; 

 quartz veins ; quartz mines, with descriptions of mines, and statistics. 



Report on the Geology of the Coast Mountains and part of the 

 Sierra Nevada, embracing their industrial resources in 

 agriculture and mining; by Dr. John B. Trask, State 

 Geologist. Assembly Doc. No. 9, Session of 1854. 92 pp. 



This report contains a description of the geology of the Monte 

 Diablo range, Salinas Valley, from Point Pinos to the Nacimiento 

 liiver, Santa Cruz Mountains ; structure of the valleys of Sacramento 

 and San Joaquin ; review of the geological changes in the coast 

 mountains and Monte Diablo range ; classification of the rocks of 

 the coast moiintains and Monte Diablo range ; position and relation 

 of the volcanic rocks to the Tertiaries ; volcanic rocks preceding the 

 Tertiary era; most recent volcanic rocks of the coast mountains; 

 changes of level and river terraces ; soils of the vallej^ Santa Clara 

 and shores of the Bay of San Francisco ; valley of the Salinas ; soils 

 of the Salinas ; Pajaro Valley ; Livermore Valley ; mineral resources 

 of the coast mountains; mineral districts, embracing parts of the 

 counties of Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, and Calaveras ; quartz veins, 

 and their relative age in California ; character and position of the 

 older veins below the surface ; present government of metallic veins ; 

 descriptions of mines, with list of gold mines. 



Report on the Geology of Northern and Southern California, 

 embracing the mineral and agricultural resources of 

 those sections; with statistics of the Northern, Southern, 

 and Middle mines; by Dr. .John B. Trask. Assembly 

 Doc. No. 14, Session of 1856. 66 pp. 



This report contains a description of the physical geography lying 

 in the coast mountains north of the Bay of San Francisco ; geolog- 

 ical structure of the coast mountains; mineral character of the 

 primitive rocks of the coast mountains ; soils of Petaluma County ; 

 plains west of the Sacramento River ; San Bernardino ; geology of 

 Table Mountain, Tuolumne County ; Carboniferous rocks of the 

 Northern district; salines of the tapper Sacramento Valley; Mam- 

 moth Mines Seventy-six, Jamison Creek ; descriptions of mines, 

 etc. ; analysis of saline waters from Lick Springs, Shasta County ; 

 gold mines in operation in 1855; table of altitudes. 



