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Butte County Geology Publications

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PUBLICATION NAME/DESCRIPTION PRICE
GAM  25 Geologic Map of California: Ukiah Sheet, 1960, scale 1:250,000 $12.00
MS  13 Geology of the Richardson Springs [15'] Quadrangle, Butte and Tehama Counties, California, 1969, scale: 1:62,500 $12.00
RGM 7 Geologic Map of the Chico Quadrangle, California, 1992, scale 1:250,000 (set of 5 sheets) $20.00
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. $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. $10.00
SP  122 Field Guide to the Geology and Tectonics of the Northern Sierra Nevada (For the National Association of Geoscience Teachers Far-Western Section), 212 p., amply illustrated with color maps, photos, and diagrams. $25.00
SR  91 Short Contributions to California Geology, 1967 $8.00
OFR  89-10 Aeromagnetic Map of the Ukiah 1 ° By 2 ° Quadrangle, California, 1989, scale 1:250,000 $8.00
OFR  88-17 Aeromagnetic Map of the Susanville 1 ° By 2 ° Quadrangle, California, 1988, scale 1:250,000 $8.00
OFR  87-03 Aeromagnetic Map of the Chico 1 ° By 2 ° Quadrangle, California, 1987, scale 1:250,000 $8.00
OFR  78-08 Principal Facts and Sources for 888 Gravity Stations on the Ukiah 1 º By 2 º Quadrangle, California, 1978 $8.00

Butte County Geohazards & Environmental Geology Publications

CD  2001-06 GIS Files of the Official Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones, Northern and Eastern Region. CD contains 170 Alquist-Priolo (AP) Earthquake Faults Zones 7.5-minute quadrangles, affecting Alpine, Butte, Humboldt, Inyo, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Mono, Shasta and Siskiyou counties and is current as of April 2002. 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  2000-005 Digital Images of Official Maps of Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones of California, Northern and Eastern Region. This CD contains Adobe Acrobat (PDF) versions of 192 7.5-minute quadrangles of Official Earthquake Fault Zone Maps in Alpine, Butte, Humboldt, Inyo, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Mono,   Shasta, and Siskiyou counties. Please note that these are digital image files only, not GIS data files. $30.00
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OFR  90-10 Microfiche Copies of Fault Evaluation Reports for Northern California [Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Del Norte, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba Counties], California, 1990 $10.00
OFR  84-25 Induced Seismicity at Lake Oroville, Butte County, California, 1984 $8.00
OFR  84-52 Summary Report: Fault Evaluation Program, 1983 Area — Sierra Nevada Region [Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Fresno, Glenn, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sierra, Stanisalus, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Yolo, and Yuba Counties], California, 1984 $8.00

Butte County Mineral Resource Publications

B  193 Gold Districts of California—Sesquicentennial Edition, California Gold Discovery to Statehood, Seventh Printing, 1998, 186 p., 1 plate, scale 1:1,000,000. An overall guide to gold deposits in California, this bulletin describes the principal features of each gold-bearing district. Longer descriptions of selected districts cover location and extent, history, geology and character of gold deposits, list of mines and bibliography. $20.00
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
OFR 2000-004 Mineral Land Classification of the KRC Holdings, Inc., M&T Chico Ranch Site, Butte County, California, for Aggregate Resources, 2000 $8.00 Folded
$10.00 Rolled
OFR 94-01 Mineral Land Classification of the Green Rock Quarries Oroville Plant No. 1 Property, Oroville 7.5-Minute Qudrangle, Butte County, California, for Railroad Ballast, 1994 $10.00