Links to Interesting Websites
(all links were checked and found to be active on 10/24/2010)
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Agencies |
Colleges |
Museums |
Societies |
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Geology Sites |
History Sites |
Geology Links
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Balanced Cross Sections (Davis & Namson)
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California Fossil Collecting Localities
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Earthquakes and Faults
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Fossil and Evolution Links
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Geology Links (this is great site!)
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Gold Mining
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La Brea Tar Pits (Page Museum)
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Plate Tectonics
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Recent Earthquakes
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Rockhound Links
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San Joaquin Valley Geology
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Satellite Images - Outer Space (from JPL)
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Satellite Images - The Visible Earth (from NASA)
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Sequence Stratigraphy Links
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Shark Tooth Hill
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Tar and Oil Seeps
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Volcanoes
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World of Oil (Paleontological research Insitution)
History Links
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Drake Well Museum (in Titusville, Pennsylvania)
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Early California Oil Industry by Bruce Petty
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Index to early Petroleum History Sites
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Oil History by Samuel T. Pees (Pennsylvania Oil History)
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Oil History and Geology of the Newhall Oil District by Stan Walker
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Petroleum History Institute
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Spindletop - Gladys Town Boomtown Museum
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Story of Oil in California (Paleontological research Insitution)
Geologic Societies
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American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
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Pacific Section of AAPG
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Alaska Geological Society
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American Petroleum Institute (API)
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San Joaquin Valley Chapter of API
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Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG)
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Association of Women Geologists (AWG)
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California Well Sample Repository (CWSR)
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Coast Geological Society (CGS)
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Dibblee Foundation
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Geological Society of America (GSA)
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Houston Geological Society (HGS)
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Los Angeles Basin Geological Society
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Northern California Geological Society
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Northwest Energy Association
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Pacific Section of AAPG
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Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG)
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San Joaquin Geological Society (SJGS)
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Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
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Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
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Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
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Los Angeles Basin Chapter of SPE
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San Joaquin Valley Chapter of SPE
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Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
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San Joaquin Well Logging Society (SJWLS)
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South Coast Geological Society
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Well Sample Repository
Local Colleges with Geology Departments
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Cal State Bakersfield (CSUB) Geology Department
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Cal State Fresno (CSUF) Geology Department
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Cal State Northridge (CSUN) Geology Department
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Santa Barbara City College Geology Department
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Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Geology Department
Museums with Oil and/or Geology Exhibits
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Buena Vista Museum of Natural History - Bakersfield
(Miocene Fossils from Shark Tooth Hill)
Field Trips
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California Oil Museum - Santa Paula
(Oil Industry of Ventura County)
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Carpinteria Valley Museum of History - Carpinteria
(Carpinteria Tar Pits)
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Kern County Museum - Bakersfield
(Oil Industry of Kern County)
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Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries - Los Angeles
(La Brea Tar Pits)
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R.C. Baker Memorial Museum - Coalinga
(History of Coalinga Field)
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West Kern Oil Museum - Taft
(McKittrick Tar Pits & History of Midway-Sunset Field)
Government Agencies
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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - Bakersfield Office
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California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR)
- They used to call it the "DOG"
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DOGGR Interactive Well Map
DOGGR Online Production Data
DOGGR Online Logs & Well Histories
DOGGR Publications FTP Site
DOGGR Well Surface Location Databases
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California Geological Survey (formerly Division of Mines and Geology)
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Department of Energy (DOE)
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Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC)
- West Coast PTTC
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U. S. Geological Survey (USGS)
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